Job Opportunity for Arts Educator

Susan Roseman passed along the following:

Bucks County Community College is looking for an arts educator with a Masters Degree (ideally in Early Childhood Education) to teach a course for the Spring 2010 semester. Interested folks should contact John Petito at Bucks. His email address is petitoj@bucks.edu .

Description: Part Time Art/Movement/Play Position (#112509-13200)
Discipline: Education
Required: Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education. or closely related field Teaching experience in an early childhood or elementary school setting. Additional experience planning lessons involving the integration of art, movement, and play.
Preferred: We seek an individual to teach an education course titled Integrated Art/ Movement/Play who has teaching experience in higher education, preferably in a community college, and who understands the mission of a community college. The course will be taught during our spring semester beginning in January. Please submit the following to the College Human Resources Department: a cover letter, resume, names of three references, and informal transcripts from degree-granting institutions.

NOTE: for some useful discussion on some Integrative Arts Education programs, you can check out the Vermont Arts Council's page on programs in their state.

Artists-in-Education application available online

The NJ State Council on the Arts asks: “Passionate about the art you make? Interested in applying to become a residency artist in a NJ school?” They’re now seeking professional practicing artists in all disciplines whose work is of high artistic quality and who personally exhibit the commitment and ability to create a lively, substantial, and sequential (5 – 20 days) arts program in an educational setting. The Artists-in-Education (AIE) program helps to place highly qualified artists in classrooms throughout the state to lead arts residencies.

Guidelines, handbook and application for artists interested in being on the FY11 AIE Artist Roster are now available online at www.njaie.org or www.njartscouncil.org. Interested artists are also encouraged to attend one of the free technical assistance workshops listed below:

Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6:00-8:00 PM
Perkins Center for the Arts. 30 Irvin Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08108.

To register for this workshop, please call Karen Chigounis at (856) 235-6488, ext.201.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901 (Central NJ) To register, call (908) 558-2550

Technical assistance is also available by phone or e-mail. Please call the AIE Consortium office at 877-NJ-ARTS-ED or 609-633-1184, or e-mail Shelley Benaroya, Arts Education Administrator at sbenaroya@yanj.org.

NOTE: Acceptance onto the roster, while providing opportunity for further professional development, does not guarantee residency work.