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6311arts
TEACHING ARTIST — WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS
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What they do
An Artist or Illustrator develops ideas and works with different materials to create art, including crafts and fine art such as painting. May specialize in drawing and creating visual images, designs or pictures for books and other publications or for commercial products, or detailed drawings for scientific or medical illustrations. Creates drawings by hand and uses computers to create or develop images.
$55,318 / year median in Illinois
+7% projected growth
Job Description
TEACHING ARTISTS
—WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS 6311 N.
Clark St., Chicago- Contract, per workshop
- $30/hour
- Rolling
THE WORK
We're looking for teaching artists as we build out our calendar of workshops — Some are One- or Two-day Some will be a series -- Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced — focused on technique.You bring:
the curriculum, the instruction, and a supply list.We bring:
the space, registration, marketing, and students.COMPENSATION
Instructor pay is $30/hourDISCIPLINES
We are currently looking for the following — and any other techniques you'd like to propose. If you teach and love it, propose it. 1. Copper plate printing 2. Egg tempera 3. Silverpoint drawing 4. Water gilding + gold leaf 5. Anatomy for artists 6. Color theory — beginner, intermediate, advanced 7. Gouache 8. Botanical illustration 9. Figure sculpture from the live model — oil clay, no kiln 10. Shibori indigo dyeing 11. Visible mending + sashiko 12. Kintsugi 13. Encaustic 14. Illuminated letters — broad pen plus gilding 15. Ikebana 16. Watercolor — beginner, intermediate, advanced 17. Acrylic — beginner, intermediate, advanced 18. Figure drawing with live model — beginner, intermediate, advanced 19. Hand embroidery hoop 20. Needle felting 21. Punch needle basics 22. Macramé 23. Mosaic — beginner, intermediate, advanced 24. Alcohol ink 25. Water marbling 26. Wire-wrapped jewelry basics 27. Holiday ornamentsWHO SHOULD APPLY
Working artists who teach, at every stage and every path. Classroom experience is welcome; command of your technique is the requirement. 6311arts is committed to a community where every race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity belongs — and a particular welcome to artists whose identities have too often been pushed to the margins.TO APPLY
Email gallery.mgr@6311arts.com with photos or a link to your work. Include a brief description on what you'd teach. Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis.ABOUT 6311ARTS
6311arts is a Chicago-based art center at 6311 N. Clark Street in Edgewater — an inclusive, approachable, neighborhood-centered space where artists and audiences of all backgrounds gather. We have three rotating galleries, a shop with work from more than 60 local artists, a workshop program, and a printmaking facility we're building into a working print hub for the North Side. We show and support Chicago-area artists at every stage and every path. 6311arts- 6311 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60660
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