Featherstone is growing! Come join Featherstone as it enters its next era of innovative programming and community connection. Bring your vision, smarts, and talents to nurturing the power of art and creative expression for everyone on Martha’s Vineyard. We offer a flexible benefits package, including health insurance, retirement with an employer match, and generous paid time off. 

We are always looking for amazing people to join our team - think you might be a fit but don’t see a role? Send us a note! Hourly positions including Art Instructors follow these listings.

We are hiring for the following positions (click titles for full job descriptions):
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Program Manager Spearhead Featherstone’s high quality, community-responsive art and literary programs for all ages, as well as our popular summer camp for children and teens. 

Development & Events Manager  Lead Featherstone’s fundraising efforts to ensure long-term sustainability, build resources, and deepen donor engagement to fuel our mission. 
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Operations Coordinator Run Featherstone’s foundational daily operations, as well as provide critical administrative and staffing support for our community-centered events and programs. 

Applications are considered on a rolling basis, with a deadline of Monday, February 3rd for priority review.
Please see  job descriptions for submission details, and include answers to the below questions with your resume/CV:

Application Questions:

1. Featherstone is a vibrant community art center offering year-round arts education and experiences for all ages and abilities. Through our wide-range of programming and collaborations we strive to make art accessible to all. Why are you interested in joining Featherstone to support this work?​
2. What relevant skills and experiences would you bring to this role that would be important for us to know about that we can’t already gather from your resume? (There is no need to repeat what we can see from your resume, but you are welcome to provide more context for what is on your resume.)
3. Featherstone serves people of all ages and abilities on Martha’s Vineyard, including permanent residents and visitors. What is your relationship to Martha’s Vineyard?
4. Is there anything else you’d like to share?

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Art Instructors for Adult Workshops and Classes

Featherstone is looking for new instructors to help develop and broaden our adult programming. We are accepting resumes/CVs for instructors to teach workshops and classes in oil, watercolor, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, jewelry, encaustics, mosaics, stained glass, glass fusion and more. We are open to a variety of mediums and different offerings. If you are interested in teaching and have an idea for a specific class you would like to teach please contact us! These are contracted positions, hourly pay: $35

Successful candidates for this role will bring:

• Professional knowledge and skill in at least one medium
• Excitement for and ability to cultivate creativity and enthusiasm for art in others
• Professional demeanor with students, parents, and staff
• Work experience as a teaching artist or art teacher, although professional artists exploring teaching for the first time are welcome to submit a workshop proposal
• Degree in education, art history, studio art, or a related field preferred but not required

Please include:

• Resume/CV
• Are you a seasonal resident?
• Days Available / Time Preferred (mornings, afternoons, evenings)?
• Have you taught before (if so where/when)?
• Class /workshop concept including skill level, medium(s), class description, and class structure

To apply or inquire, please contact Posie Haeger: [email protected]

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Figure Models
Life Drawing, our open studio with live models is offered on Tuesday afternoons from 1:30PM - 4:00PM. There is no instructor for this class which has draped and undraped models that vary in age, sex, and body type each week.
Figure models pose nude in an adult studio environment as a subject for student artists learning to make drawings, paintings and related artworks. Pay per session: $80

Essential Functions & Qualifications:

• Pose nude or draped for fine art drawing/painting
• Provide a full range of traditional and creative poses, from gestures to sustained poses
• Maintain poses for a fixed period of time

• Minimum eighteen years old
• Comfortable posing nude in small and large group sessions

​Physical Requirements:
Model platform is raised and models must be able to get up and down from 1 foot platform without assistance. Figure models will be required to hold expressive, animated, and sustained poses throughout the 2.5 hour session.

To apply, please contact: [email protected]

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Featherstone Center for the arts encourages individuality and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. We welcome all people to our campus, programs and to apply for positions at Featherstone.