Children’s Art Instructors
Featherstone Center for the Arts seeks practicing artists and/or school teachers with experience teaching children ages 4 and older for part-time teaching opportunities: as co-teacher for a weekly after school class for children in 3rd - 6th grades (Wednesdays, 3:30pm - 5:30pm); and for co-teaching our 4-5 year old  weekly summer camp (Mondays through Fridays, 9am - 12pm, June 15 - August 7). Featherstone instructors uphold our mission by providing engaging learning opportunities through art and creativity.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience teaching art to children.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, including the ability to work effectively with educators, as well as with diverse groups of students.
• The drive to solve problems creatively and independently.
• Degree in Art, Art Education, Education or related field preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Teach age appropriate art based classes, encouraging students to apply their observations, reflections, critical thinking, and creativity to making their own works of art.
• Implement effective classroom management strategies and an organized class structure.
• Communicate effectively with other instructors and administrative staff, while following all Featherstone procedures.

Schedule and Pay:
This is an hourly position, paid $35 per hour of instruction. 
Camp instructors are paid 20 hours per week (to include set up and clean up time), for 8 weeks of the summer season.

To apply:
Please email a copy of your resume and three letters of recommendation to: [email protected] by December 17th, 2025.

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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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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]

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.