Photo Teaching Artist

Venice Arts

Venice, CA

Venice Arts is seeking creative educators in photography, film, sequential (comic) arts and animation to teach in-person classes centered around personal and community storytelling, using Venice Arts’ experiential and project-based approach to education. The ideal candidate can lead beginning to advanced multi-media workshops for youth, ages 10-18. Teaching artists are expected to create theme-based projects that ignite the next generation of storytellers!

Venice Arts provides a syllabus template and examples that outline our pedagogical approach and aims to support teaching experience through bi-annual training, classroom observations, and feedback. We look for educators who can comfortably work within our teaching model while making thoughtful modifications to make the class their own.

Directly apply here by 5/29/22.
This is a non-exempt (hourly) position. Entry level teaching artists begin with a teaching rate of $30 per hour. Class prep, syllabus writing (up to 8 hours), and mandatory training are paid at an administrative rate of $25/hour. For every 2 hours of classroom teaching you are paid for 3 hours of teaching and 1 hour of prep for a starting rate of $115 per class session. In total, an entry level teacher would average $2,015 per semester.

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