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Tapestry Arts is a nonprofit arts organization,
founded in 1976. Our mission is to provide opportunities
for the community to interact with the arts. Tapestry
delivers art education and outreach programs to children and
adults in a variety of setting, including schools, shelters
and community centers. We believe a complete education
includes the arts. Tapestry hires and trains artists to
teach curriculum-based arts classes. Programs include
short and long term residencies, workshops, performances,
exhibitions and "World Moves" a multicultural dance residency
concluding with a professionally staged performance.
We are currently seeking:
Visual
Artists, Performing Artists, Musicians, Dancers, Literary
Artists
Do you have teaching
experience? Do you wish to pass on the value of the arts to children and
adults in our community? Tapestry Arts is looking for artists with
creative ideas, a professional attitude, good communication skills and
flexible schedules. Do you have the expertise to teach children, youth and
adults about puppetry, theatre, dance, music, storytelling, poetry, visual
arts, murals, crafts, quilting, ceramics?
Artists
employed for Tapestry Arts education programs are
competitively compensated for their training time, prep time,
teaching time, site meetings, evaluations and performances or
exhibitions. Selection and placement
are based on experience and a comprehensive interview
process. Artists are responsible for and compensated for
procuring necessary supplies for their
programs. Artists work on a contract basis with
Tapestry Arts. Fingerprinting may be required.
Tapestry Arts teams with artists to design
projects that integrate the artistic process with learning and
creativity in a variety of settings and multicultural environments. The Education Manager is available to support your
efforts to craft a positive arts experience for you, your students
and the sponsoring organizations. As part of the artist in residency training,
Tapestry will work with artists to schedule classes, create lesson
plans, learn classroom management skills, acquire supplies, manage
budgets and design outcome measurements for the program.
For information or to apply, please contact:
An K. Lu
Executive Director
Tapestry Arts
255 North Market Street, Suite 124
San Jose, CA 95110
408 494 3590
408 294 3479 (fax)
anlu@tapestryarts.org
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