Teaching Artists: Visual Art, Design, Music, Music production, Theater, Poetry, Dance, Entrepreneurship, Career Readiness

The Organization

**DreamYard Vision:** Building Artists- Building Community- Building Dreams- To change the world.

**Job Description** DreamYard is currently accepting applications for Teaching Artists in Visual Art, Design, Music, Music production, Theater, Poetry, Dance, Entrepreneurship, Career Readiness, and more for the 2023-24 school year. We are looking for passionate, experienced candidates with a strong practice in teaching for social justice and racial equity for in-school, after-school, and summer residency opportunities at our Bronx partner schools and the DreamYard Art Center. TAs must have demonstrated previous experience teaching in their discipline, in NYC public school settings or youth-centered spaces.

**About DreamYard** DreamYard Project is committed to being an anti-racist organization. We lead with race because we operate in a country founded on the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of African people, and the oppression of countless others. We acknowledge the role this history plays in perpetuating inequity and dominant white culture. We are intentionally building a path toward racial equity by:

• Challenging oppression and its intersections
• Using art and education as a platform to offer a hopeful vision of the future
• Identifying and uplifting the power and cultural assets that exist within our community of educators, artists, dreamers, young people and life-long learners
• Encouraging the principles of justice, unity, equity, creativity, and joy
• Transforming policies, procedures, practices, and programs (for example: striving for transparency and equity in pay and compensation structures regardless of race, culture, gender, ethnicity, creed, etc)
• Understanding our staff, community members and partners are at different levels on the anti-racist continuum and embracing that we all have a place in this work

As a DreamYard employee, we invite you to join us on this journey.

Co-Executive directors Jason Duchin and Tim Lord founded DreamYard in 1994. Over the past quarter century, DreamYard has worked with more than 100 public schools and over 100,000 young people and families.DreamYard has developed a robust educational community in the Bronx – from its in-school partnerships and launch of the DreamYard Preparatory High School to its Out of School Programs at the DreamYard Art Center in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx. Our role is to nurture, resource, encourage, inspire, and sometimes simply remind our community members of the power and endless possibilities that they hold. We do so by encouraging personal stories, acknowledging and working to change oppressive conditions, and fortifying each individual’s personal power to transform.

Teaching Artist Position DreamYard’s Teaching Artists are a powerful force in moving our educational system towards racial equity. DreamYard Teaching Artists are highly skilled artists and educators, committed to creating equitable learning spaces through collaborative teaching practices and social justice pedagogy. They report directly to the Program Director and are supported by DreamYard Department Heads and Program Coordinators.

In our In School Programs, TA’s work closely with classroom teachers and school administrators. In School Residences are 90-minute or 45 minute sessions per classroom, per week plus weekly planning sessions with the classroom teacher from September through May (30 sessions).

In After School (school-based) Programs, Teaching Artists lead two 90-minute sessions per class, per week from September/October through May/June (60 sessions).

Out-of-School Programs at our DreamYard Art Center closely mirror the structure of our In School Programs. Teaching Artists lead one to two 90-minute sessions per week and Saturday High School Program Teaching Artists lead 4 hour sessions each Saturday. Art Center Program Residencies run for 25 sessions (October through May).

In our Legacy Internship Program residencies, Teaching Artists provide real work experiences as well as build career awareness and readiness by unlocking industry-specific knowledge, skills, and networks. Teaching Artists in these residencies exhibit expertise in entrepreneurship within their artform through an educational degree and/or professional accomplishments. A thorough understanding of Work-based Learning and its unique benefits and challenges in bridging the distance betwe…