Artist Instructor (independent contractor position)

Wage: $30/hr

Application deadline: Ongoing

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is seeking The VAC is seeking a friendly, energetic and organized artist instructor with a versatile teaching style to teach art classes to children and adults. The VAC is seeking artists from a variety of practices including but not limited to painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Instruct and supervise VAC art classes for kids and adults

  • Instruct special workshops or school programs when needed

  • Instruct programs and workshops offsite for outreach programming

  • Meet with the Education Coordinator to coordinate programming plans and evaluate the success of projects and classes

  • Provide class outlines, material lists, class descriptions to the Education Coordinator upon request

  • Organize and create projects lesson

  • Prepare and gather materials before class

  • Perform demonstrations for the class on technique and process

  • Collect art materials, appropriate cleanup of the studio after class

  • Keep work areas clean and art supplies stored and organized 

  • Provide sufficient notice to the Education Coordinator if unable to teach a scheduled class

Qualifications:

  • Minimum five (2) years of experience in teaching and working in an artistic practice

  • Ability to teach various methods and practices to a wide range of age groups (specifically, ages 5 - 12)

How to Apply:  

Email your application to:

Bronwyn Gauley (they/them), Education Coordinator at education@vac.ca

Applications must include:

  • A cover letter (no longer than two pages) that addresses the listed qualifications for this position

  • A current resume (no longer than three pages) 

  • Examples of artwork

About the VAC

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is a not-for-profit art gallery and arts education centre in Bowmanville, ON. The VAC is dedicated to delivering contemporary art to the Clarington Community, the wider Durham Region, and beyond. It has a 47-year history of community engagement, connecting people of all ages and backgrounds in a creative place for artmaking and learning. The VAC occupies a four-story 1905 Mill, which holds exhibition and studio spaces, including a fully equipped pottery studio, a painting studio, and a rustic loft gallery.

Educational and public engagement programs are offered to kids, youth, and adults, while exhibitions of contemporary art show Canadian regional and national artists' works in various stages of their careers. The VAC is a safe space where ideas are exchanged, questions are asked, and connections are made.

The VAC is an equal-opportunity employer committed to employment equity and building strength through diversity. We encourage applications from qualified candidates from visible and invisible minority group communities, including but not limited to women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and those living across the sexual orientation and gender identity spectrum. Acknowledging that we are not a fully accessible building with stairwell access to our third floor loft gallery space and basement storage level—we attempt to be as inclusive as possible in our hiring process.