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Job TitlePREK-2ND GRADE FINE ARTS INSTRUCTOR

  • Paid
  • Part-Time

The Artist Lab

Irvine, CA

Job Description

Our Fine Art Drawing & Painting Program is looking for a Drawing & Painting Instructor for Prek-2nd Grade with a BFA or MFA, talent, a strong art portfolio, and 1 year plus of teaching experience.

Students will be using: pencil/graphite, pen/sharpie markers, color-pencils, oil-pastel, water-colors, tempera paint, acrylic paint, and older teens and adults can use oil paint when ready.

This Artist Instructor needs to have but limited to:

Expansive fundamental art and art-history knowledge to teach curriculum & projects to students ages 3.5 and up
Strong teaching and public speaking skills to run classes
Professional and strong networking skills to help attract and retain student customer base
Flexible personality able to engage young children to educating teens and adults
Be able to work in a fast paced environment, multi-task,
Be able to jump from project-to-project,
Be kind to students and parent-customers.

Primary Responsibilities:
Be able to run and lead a classroom of 3-10 students and meet all needs of students: artistically, safety, and emotional needs during class.
Guide children, teens, and adults develop their creativity, imagination, visions, and technical skills to develop advanced and refined artworks using diverse medium.
Be knowledgeable and creative to be able to help students develop each advanced project conceptually.
Contribute to a strong and knowledgeable curriculum and teaching plans that will be structured, organized, effective, and well taught and implemented.
Provide instructions to children on how to select materials based on unique visions, their strengths, color, texture, balance, weight, size, malleability, aesthetic effects, visual energy, content symbolism, and other characteristics based on their creative ideas.
Responsible for set-up, clean-up, and cleanliness of supplies and art teaching areas, and teach students to clean and also preserve paint and materials resourcefully.

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