REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN MARK DEGARMO & DANCERS AND IRONDALE ENSEMBLE PROJECT
SEEK PROSPECTIVE & EXPERIENCED TEACHING ARTISTS
FOR TRAINING INSTITUTE 2010
Mark DeGarmo & Dancers and Irondale Ensemble Project seek energetic and enthusiastic participants for their Teaching Artist Training Institute Collaborative 2010. The institute is an opportunity for prospective and experienced theater, dance, movement, music, and visual arts teaching artists to develop and refine their skills in arts education. The institute integrates seminars, practicum and guided independent study to create opportunities for prospective and experienced teaching artists. This is MDDF's 5th Institute.
Schedule: The institute begins on March 22 and ends on May 31, 2010. The 8 seminars run Mondays, 6:30-8:30 PM March 22-May 10, 2010.
Responsibilities: This is a 75-hour institute: 8 2-hour seminars, 9-hour practicum, and 50 hours of guided independent study. The seminars can be taken without enrolling in the full institute.
Location: Seminars are at the studio of Mark DeGarmo & Dancers at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk Street (between Delancey & Rivington Streets, Lower East Side), Manhattan and at The Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street (The BAM Cultural District) in Brooklyn. The practicum will take place at NYC public schools.
Fees and Financial Aid: $200 for 8 seminars, $750 for full institute. There is a non-refundable $75 registration fee for all accepted participants to hold their places in the program. A limited number of scholarships and $200 stipends for successfully completing the institute are available.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience or interest teaching performing arts to public school students and partnering with their teachers and school communities.
- Interest in developing age-appropriate arts-in-education skills.
- Comfortable in complex public school environments.
Openness to learning and professional development in the context of a learning community.
- Self-motivated, with an attention to detail.
- Ably manage and follow-through on multiple priorities, tasks and projects individually and on a team.
Flexibility with good problem-solving skills under pressure.
- High school diploma required; current college student, Bachelor's or Master's degree preferred.
- A sense of humor, patience, and energy for challenges.
How to Apply: For more information about the Institute's curriculum, schedule, and how to apply contact: mark@markdegarmoarts.org, visit http://markdegarmoarts.org/seminars or phone 212.375.9214.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2010 has been extended to March 15, 2010.
Decision Date: Applications are under review and the opportunity will remain open until filled.
This program is supported with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The Dana Foundation supported previous institutes.
APPLICATION
Mark DeGarmo & Dancers and Irondale Ensemble Project
Teaching Artist Training Institute 10
Email a brief cover letter both in the body of the text and as an attachment specifying:
- Concise statement of how your teaching and artistic goals, accomplishments and processes are connected (5-7 sentences maximum).
- How your skills and previous experience qualify you for the institute.
- Ability to attend and fulfill all seminar, practicum and independent study requirements.
- 75-word statement of your goals for participating in either the full institute or seminars only.
- If you are applying as a non-scholarship participant in the seminars only or full institute:
i. Why you want to attend the seminars only or the full institute.
ii. Your understanding of and ability to pay the fees.
- If you are applying for a stipend and scholarship for successfully fulfilling all requirements of the full institute, state your reasons for doing so.*
- 150-word biography.
- Attach:
i. Resume (2 pages maximum).
ii. Full contact information and their relationship to you for three professional references familiar with and supervising your work in a similar context.
Email Applications to: mark@markdegarmoarts.org or info@markdegarmoarts.org.
*Note that there are a limited number of partial and full scholarships and $200 stipends available for successfully completing the requirements of the full institute.
