Lower and Middle School Art Teacher

Green Acres School is seeking a full-time teacher of art for students from 3-years-old through 8^th grade. The successful candidate will love kids and love art. That person will know how to inspire and manage young children through pre-teens as they explore the different elements of artistic composition and as they work with different media. As a progressive school, Green Acres highly values “learning by doing” and project-based work, which connects naturally to the kinds of activities that art class incorporates. In addition to learning artistic techniques and dispositions, our art students explore big questions in their projects, and they get to know (and sometimes imitate) famous artists and artistic movements. The successful candidate will have the ability to nurture our youngest students in their use of art to explore their worlds, and they will be able to engage young adolescents and pre-adolescents socially and emotionally as those children come to increasingly sophisticated understandings of their layered communities and their places in them. The art studio includes a kiln, and clay creations are developed and fired at different times for all of our students. The Art teacher collaborates with homeroom teachers in the Lower School to integrate art with the themes that children are studying in their homeroom classes. And in the Spring, the art teacher leads a class of students in designing the stage sets and props for the 7^th and 8^th grade musical theater production.