Continuing Education Facilitator, Youth In-Person

About the role

RISD Continuing Education facilitators teach and provide feedback to promote and direct student learning and guide students with empathy. The program emphasizes design thinking, communicating, and creating, and students look to facilitators for guidance while navigating daily prompts and assignments. Facilitators lead students through engaging and inspiring activities designed to grow their confidence in art making, support students as they develop art and design vocabulary by talking about their work and the work of others, and provide personalized feedback as they work and during informal presentations of their finished pieces.

This position is for co-facilitating Museum Marvels, a full-day studio course held in person on the RISD campus for youth ages 10–12. The week-long course includes five days of art making with three guided visits to the RISD Museum. At the museum, students discover stories about history and culture by analyzing artworks, imagine distant places or times through landscape-inspired pieces, and ponder how artists depict people and characters in drawings, sculptures, and photographs. Gallery tours include written activities and opportunities to ask questions. Back in the studio, students apply ideas and techniques from the tours to create inspired works of art. The week concludes with a mini exhibition where students share their work with friends and family.

Learner outcomes:

• Inspect art and design objects for clues about how they were made and what the artist is communicating.
• Create works of art that include landscapes, portraits, and a story.
• Practice techniques to show depth and realism when depicting scenes and people.
• Use art and design vocabulary.
• Build confidence by working collaboratively and independently.

Responsibilities

• Co-facilitate a full-day, week-long studio course for youth ages 10–12 on the RISD campus.
• Lead students through engaging art-making activities and three guided RISD Museum visits.
• Guide students in analyzing artworks for historical, cultural, and technical insights.
• Facilitate gallery tours with written activities and discussion.
• Support students in applying museum-inspired ideas and techniques to studio projects.
• Help students develop art and design vocabulary through critique and discussion of their work and peers' work.
• Provide personalized feedback during studio work and informal presentations.
• Oversee a final mini exhibition of student work for friends and families.
• Accept and act upon constructive feedback from course evaluations by students and staff.
• Implement diverse teaching and learning strategies for learners from varied educational backgrounds and expectations.

Requirements

• BS, BFA, or Art/Design major required.
• Demonstrated teaching experience in visual arts education.
• Ability to convey complex art and design concepts to students with varied skills (novice to advanced) in a condensed time frame.
• Ability to implement diverse teaching and learning approaches for learners from a variety of educational backgrounds, environments, and expectations.
• Ability to meet RISD's technology requirements.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred.
• K–12 teaching experience with expertise in art and design preferred.
• Classroom or group management experience, K–8 preferred.
• Teaching certification/certificate preferred.
• Knowledge and understanding of early- to mid-childhood learner principles and respect for students preferred.

Schedule

Course runs for one week, Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–4:00 pm on the RISD campus in Providence, RI. Spring 2027 semester: April 19–23, 2027. In-person only.

Documents needed to apply

• Resume (required)
• Link to professional portfolio (preferred)
• Statement of interest (preferred)