Deadline: 1-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Teaching Artist Roster Program, a listing of professional artists and arts educators who are available to work with schools and community organizations in developing strategies for using the arts in a variety of settings.
Teaching Artists work at a professional level within their artistic discipline but have also made arts education a central component in their work. They have developed their skills as educators along with their artistic skills. Teaching artists can work in a variety of settings, including schools, youth arts programs and community centers, and with professional arts organizations.
Goals
- Provide arts learning opportunities that align with Arts Learning Standards developed by the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE)
- Make connections between the arts and MDE’s K-12 Academic Content Standards
- Collaborate with classroom teachers or arts education committees
- Work with both teachers (through professional development) and students (through arts integrated, hands-on lessons)
- Support efforts to integrate arts learning with other subject areas
- Assist school staff in continuing arts education programming in the absence of an arts teacher through sharing strategies, techniques, and curricula
Eligibility Criteria
You may apply to the Teaching Artist Roster if you are:
- a professional artist or arts educator. Individuals are considered to be a professional artist or arts educator if they
- earn at least part of their annual income working with educators and others showing how their art form may be used to enhance learning and teaching;
- consider their artistic work a career;
- maintain a high level of artistic quality; and
- make a significant time investment in their artistic disciplines through practice, performance, and instruction;
- not a full-time student; and
- more than 18 years of age.
For more information, visit Mississippi Arts Commission.
For more information, visit https://arts.ms.gov/grants/grants-for-individuals/teaching-artist-roster-application-process/