Whitney Family Programs Facilitator

The Whitney is partnering with select New York City graduate schools to invite current students in art and art education or museum education to facilitate weekend studio programs for families at the Museum.

Family Programs Facilitators will work with Whitney staff to learn about inquiry-based teaching strategies and art-making techniques. They will explore techniques in different media and learn how to connect works of art on view at the Museum with studio projects.

Facilitators will be paid $25 an hour to lead drop-in, hands-on Open Studio workshops for families with children of all ages. They will also assist with large scale family events. There will also be additional opportunities to work with other audiences.

Responsibilities include:
– Leading hands-on art projects for families with kids of all ages designed by the Coordinator of Family Programs in the Museum’s Hearst Artspace.
– Setting up and cleaning up before and after programs. – Tracking attendance and collecting emails for our mailing list during programs.
– Working with and communicating effectively with volunteers.
– Attending monthly training meetings and working closely with Museum staff to learn how to teach projects.
– Completing necessary independent research and reading of materials given by Education staff.
– Providing written reflections after programs.
– Working collaboratively and communicating effectively with Family Programs Staff.
– Working at large-scale events for families of all ages.
– Helping at other Museum-wide events such as Membership, Teen, Public, and Community and Access programs.

Requirements:
The candidate should be enrolled in a Master’s degree program and interested in learning more about the field of Museum Education; have an interest in working with modern and contemporary art, as well as an ability to connect with kids and adults of all ages; a desire to learn about facilitating art making workshops; flexible and able to work independently as well as part of a group; available to work weekend hours.

If interested, please email resume, cover letter, and one letter of recommendation from a professor to: familyprograms@whitney.org by Monday, September 19 at the latest. Please include “Family Programs Facilitator” in the email subject line.

About the Whitney

As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. Designed by architect Renzo Piano and situated between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney’s new building vastly increases the Museum’s exhibition and programming space, providing the most expansive view ever of its unsurpassed collection of modern and contemporary American art.

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