Please join us for this information session on the 2026 New York State Teaching Artist Mentorship Program!
This session will take place on January 13, 2026 from 6 – 7:30pm ET. We will begin with reviewing program eligibility, requirements, dates and deadlines and have time for Q&A about the program. We will spend the second half of the session with Caits Meissner, who will facilitate a mini workshop on preparing a Teaching CV to help attendees prepare application materials. Please bring your questions!
A recording of this session will be made available on the Roundtable’s YouTube page. Automated captions will be available via Zoom.
Please note: Attendance or viewing is encouraged but not required to submit an application.
About the Mentorship Program
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is proud to launch the fifth cohort of the New York State Teaching Artist Mentorship Program. This regrant opportunity seeks to proactively help mid-career Teaching Artists from across the state develop the networks, skills, and increased capacities necessary to support career advancement and sustainability.
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s New York Teaching Artist Mentorship Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature with additional support from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Accessibility
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is committed to providing opportunities for everyone to participate in our programming. All sessions will include access to closed captioning in the main room via Zoom’s Live Transcript feature. Please let us know how we can meet your access needs or reach out if you have any questions by contacting Roundtable Programs Director Kinsey Keck at kkeck@nycaieroundtable.org.
About Caits Meissner
Caits Meissner is an artist and writer in NYC. Her poems, comics, nonfiction and curation have appeared in The Creative Independent, The Rumpus, [PANK], Harper’s Bazaar, Adroit, Literary Hub, Split This Rock, Bust Magazine, The Normal School, The Guardian and Oprah Daily, among others. With a DIY and entrepreneurial spirit, Caits has worked across a wide array of mediums, including music albums, video direction, comics, participatory community arts projects, illustration and design, and limited edition poetry books published by small presses The Operating System and Well&Often. FLOWERS FOR LINDA, is her podcast on grief & creativity. As former director of Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America, Caits edited The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books), an anthology which features the original contributions of over 50 justice-involved writers. Caits is also a creative strategist, social impact producer and longtime arts educator who has worked with premiere cultural institutions such as The Mellon Foundation, PBS, Tribeca Film Institute, The Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Public Library, Lincoln Center, The Guggenheim Museum, The Lower Eastside Girls Club, The New School, City College of New York and many more. She creates and curates at Little Church Studio in Yonkers, New York.
