Teaching Artist Application

Before beginning your application, please read through all the information you will be asked to provide. Plan to complete this application in one sitting. It may take you about 1-2 hours to complete. You will also be asked for a reference, who will complete their reference in the next form. If you have any questions, please contact catherine@AcadianaCenterfortheArts.org

First Name

Last Name

Email

Phone Number (cell/main)

Home Address

City

State

Zip Code

Website

Teaching Experience

Tell us about your experience working with different age groups, specifically early childhood, elementary, middle/high school, post-secondary, and adult. How would you rate your experience with each age group? And for groups that you don’t have experience with, are you interested in training in this area?

Where has your experience with the above groups taken place? In school settings, with a community organization, festival, etc?

Share any experience you have with the following groups: at-risk youth, incarcerated individuals, students with disabilities, senior citizens.

Do you have experience with teaching using arts integration (teaching another subject area through the arts)? If so, please elaborate.

Have you developed and presented professional development for educators or for other artists?

Narrative Questions

These questions present an opportunity to express your personal approach and your expertise.

Describe your work as an individual artist. Describe the media/formats in which you most commonly work and your level of mastery, experience and/or professional success in these areas. What aspects of your art form are you most drawn to and are most passionate about?

Describe your work as a teaching artist. Explain your evolution as a teaching artist and your personal philosophy regarding your approach and your purpose as a teaching artist. What age groups and what teaching environments are you most drawn to and why?

Describe your work with students in K-12 public schools and why you pursue this work.

Have you developed art lessons that integrate an arts discipline with a non-arts subject area? If so, briefly describe the key concept/skills in this lesson and how you effectively addressed both subject areas. (If you have not taught this type of lesson, you may skip this question; skills in this area are not a requirement for all teaching artist programs.)

How do you continue to hone your skills as both an artist and a teaching artist? Describe the professional development experiences that have been the most valuable to you and why. What kind of training would improve your abilities as a teaching artist?

Artistic resume - This should address your training and expertise as an individual artist and as a teaching artist (if prior experience). Resume should be no more than 2 pages in length.

Samples of work as an artist - The purpose of the work sample is to demonstrate your abilities and achievements as an individual artist, not as a teaching artist. Work samples can be uploaded here, emailed, or submitted in hardcopy.

Sample lesson plans - Optional, though recommended if you are applying for the PACE program.

Reference forms - Minimum of three references required. References can complete the reference form on AcA's website. Please list their names here.