Follow Your Art is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Current Job Openings
Follow Your Art offers a dynamic, creative team environment that values the contributions and ideas of of every team member. While each position has a defined role, there are many opportunities to collaborate across roles. Our best ideas are generated and executed together.
The following positions are available. Click titles below to jump to details for each:
- Ceramic Technical Assistant (POSITION FILLED)
- Ceramics Contracted Facilitator
- Creative Facilitator (contracted position for classes/workshops, excludes ceramics)
- Arts for All 1:1 Learning Aid
Ceramic Technical Assistant (Position Filled)
We are looking for a self-motivated and excellent task manager to join our ceramics team as a technical assistant (CTA). The CTA will assist with all aspects of studio operation to achieve the goals of FYACS’s ceramics studio operation. Responsibilities will vary from week to week and priorities will be set forth and scheduled by the Ceramics Studio Manager. The ideal candidate can manage time, track hours and progress independently, ask questions, and actively engage in the care of our small ceramics operation. Training on FYA procedures and ceramics technical work will be provided.
Responsibilities: The CTA will be assigned priorities each week which may include:
- Recycle clay: independently maintaining a schedule to complete recycling each week.
- Monitoring, maintaining, and mixing glazes.
- Maintain inventory tracking and restocking studio materials
- Maintain studio and work area cleanliness and organization
- Transport finished pottery work to and from work area in basement
- Glaze student work
- Assist with kiln loading and unloading according to schedule
- Program and monitor firings and maintain kiln shelves
- Track and report hours worked and completed assignments
- Other duties as assigned
- Collaborate with the Ceramics Studio Manager on studio oversight:
- Communicate with contracted facilitators to ensure procedures set forth by FYACS ceramics studio are understood and followed regarding studio organization, ware management and tracking, and materials/equipment care
- Communicate with the ceramics team to innovate new procedures to improve functioning of technical operations
- Contribute to the Ceramics team’s collective knowledge of procedures and operations, adding to documentation as needed
- Training and overseeing volunteers and interns as needed
- Collaborating with the Ceramics Program Coordinator
- Teaching a minimum of 5 class hours/week to either youth, teens, and/or adults
- Communicating about teaching methods and student experience
- Collaborating on and delivering curriculum
Qualifications:
- Experience teaching ceramics desired, including experience teaching, guiding, or caring for children
- Experience in ceramics technical support functions preferred
- Knowledge of ceramics techniques:
- General clay knowledge: clay care, reclaiming, wedging
- Hand-building: slab rolling, pinching, coil-building,
- Wheel-throwing: centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming
- Decorating: carving, underglazing, glazing (dip & brush).
- BA in Ceramics or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with a small multi-functional team
- Enthusiasm for working in a mission-driven, community space, non-profit experience a plus
Physical Requirements:
This is a physically demanding job that involves lifting and carrying heavy items on a regular basis. Position requires regular sitting, standing, walking, reaching, twisting, turning, kneeling, bending, squatting,and stooping in the performance of activities. The position also requires grasping, repetitive hand movements and fine coordination. Additionally, the position requires near and far vision in reading reports and work related documents and using a computer. The need to lift, drag, carry and push, pull objects weighing up to 50 lbs is also required. Must be able to carry 25 lbs easily and regularly. The work environment can be dusty. Appropriate safety masks and glasses need to be worn at times.
Other:
We are willing to train the right candidate in some aspects of this position if you meet some of the qualifications. If you believe that you should be considered for this role we encourage you to apply, and we will be glad to receive your materials. Please use your cover letter to tell us more about yourself and about your interest in Ceramics and the Ceramics Technical Assistant role.
Compensation/Scheduling details
- Hours: 10-15 hours/week on average, which includes a minimum of 5 hours of teaching. Additional technical work will be assigned during peak demand. Additional teaching opportunities are possible if desired.
- Hours must be flexible and may include evening/weekend hours. Work schedule may vary based on workload each week.
- Pay Rate: $20-$22/hour, Staff Position, up to 4 weeks unpaid vacation time.
- Benefits: Staff members receive 25% off FYA program and workshop tuition for themselves or their children. The CTA position also comes with access to the ceramics studio (hand-building table, wheels, tools) during non-class hours. Clay, glazes and kiln firing is by arrangement at cost.
Please see www.fyamelrose.org for more information on FYACS, our story, and our mission.
To apply, please email a cover letter and a resume to ceramics@fyamelrose.org.
Ceramics Contracted Facilitator
We are looking for an experienced ceramics facilitator to join our small teaching team. This position can be combined with the Ceramics Technical Assistant position.
Responsibilities:
- Teaching one or more ceramics classes at FYA based on need and availability. For a listing of the range of our curricular offerings, including classes for youth, teens, and adults, click here.
- Collaborating with the Ceramics Program Coordinator on teaching methods and curriculum development, and communicating with the Ceramics Program Coordinator about student experience.
- Follow procedures set by the Ceramics Studio Manager on studio maintenance and organizing and tracking student work.
- In addition to teaching, other responsibilities include: pre-lesson classroom prep, post-lesson clean-up and organization, and tracking pieces.
Qualifications:
- Experience teaching ceramics/pottery to youth, teens, and/or adults
- Knowledge of ceramics techniques:
- General clay knowledge: clay care, reclaiming, wedging
- Hand-building: slab rolling, pinching, coil-building,
- Wheel-throwing: centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming (these skills will be necessary for teaching our teen and adult classes)
- Decorating: carving, underglazing, glazing (dip & brush).
- Degree in Ceramic Arts and/or a practicing potter/ceramicist
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with a small multi-functional team
Preference will be given to candidates who can be available Wednesday, Thursday, and/or Friday afternoons and/or evenings for teaching.
We are willing to train the right candidate in some aspects of this position if you meet some of the qualifications. If you believe that you should be considered for this role we encourage you to apply, and we will be glad to receive your materials.
Please use your cover letter to tell us more about yourself, about your interest in the Ceramics Facilitator role, about which classes you would be interested in teaching (please see fyamelrose.org/the-ceramics-studio for a listing of our courses), and about your general teaching availability (ex. days, hours).
Rate: $25-$40 per teaching hour, Contractor Position (teaching hours available based on FYA’s need)
Please see www.fyamelrose.org for more information on FYACS, our story, and our mission.
To apply, please email a cover letter and a resume to ceramics@fyamelrose.org.
Arts for All 1:1 Learning Aid / Teacher’s Assistant
Responsibilities:
- The 1-1 learning aid will work with students who would benefit from or have requested individualized specialized support for learning, cognitive, and/or physical disabilities in order to participate in creative arts programs at FYA.
- The 1-1 learning aid assists the lead classroom instructor by adapting projects and tasks to support the student receiving adaptive services based on their specific needs (this can look like taking reading breaks in a quiet space, helping the student communicate, helping the student navigate, helping communicate tasks for understanding, and providing sensory / moving breaks, to name a few).
- The type of support provided will differ from student to student based on conversations with the caregivers and the student and the type of class.
Qualifications:
- Passion for and relevant experience working with and supporting youth with cognitive, learning, and/or physical disabilities (occasionally, we may also support adults),
- Ability to adapt, be flexible, and be creative,
- Ability to assist the lead instructor and collaborate effectively,
- Knowledge of child psychology and child behavior,
- Compassionate classroom management skills,
- No art, theater, or clay experience is necessary, but as we are a creative space, we are looking for contractors who appreciate creative activities and enjoy being in an arts or theater classroom.
Compensation: $20-25 per hour based on experience. This is a contractor position.
Hours:
- Contracted 1-1 Aids work based on community demand. Work is dependent on whether or not we have to meet a requested need.
- When a request comes through our Arts for All program requesting assistance for a student (ages 5-adult), if we determine that a 1-1 Aid would benefit a student, we contact the individuals on our 1-1 Aid Contractor list to see who is available.
- Classes run M-F after school from 2:45 to about 6PM (depending on the class).
- Classes are one hour long (sometimes 1.5-2).
- Through Arts for All, we support on average 1-3 students with a 1-1 Aid per session.
- Sessions range between 6-7 weeks during the school year.
- Classes meet once a week.
- 1-1 Aids must commit to attending the class for the entire session with the assigned student. If a student reports absent, we will inform the 1-1 Aid.
Follow Your Art is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
If you are interested, please send a brief cover letter and a resume to artsforall@fyamelrose.org.
Creative Facilitator
FYA is looking for qualified creative art facilitators with experience in early childhood development and creative programming to facilitate classes for artists of all ages. Our classes are usually an hour long and meet once a week for six or seven week sessions – our classes are small and artist-focused, with an emphasis on creative materials exploration and process over product (especially for our youngest creators!). We are looking for facilitators to propose their own classes, or to step into pre-existing ones. Our greatest need is with the elementary aged population.
Pay from $35-65 per class hour, determined by experience. Prior teaching experience is required for consideration.