Celebrating more than 50 years of service, historically Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) is the borough’s leading nonprofit organization supporting artists and cultural groups in all disciplines. BAC is committed to serving the arts ecosystem through grants, professional development, cultural heritage programming, and arts education provided via distance learning. By creating and supporting cultural events and platforms for Brooklynites, BAC provides forums for critical thinking and self-expression, enriches Brooklyn’s cultural landscape, and generates experiences that expand horizons. Learn more here. 

About the BAC Arts in Education (AIE) Department: 

BAC’s AIE Department is a creative powerhouse, enriching the Brooklyn community through accessible arts education. Our programs empower individuals by fostering creativity, cultural understanding, and self-expression. We integrate arts into the community through our Creative Pathways, Our Voices, Catalyst, and Global Rhythms school programs, Creative Aging residencies at older adult centers, and community programming across the borough. This programming nurtures critical thinking and innovation, creates artistic engagement, and enhances well-being and social interaction. We seek to energize neighborhoods, communities, and schools to revitalize public spaces and foster unity. Together, we create a vibrant Brooklyn where art transforms lives. Learn more here. 

Our Educational Goals 

• Foster creativity and imagination 
• Expand verbal and non-verbal communication skills 
• Enhance capacities for critical thinking and problem solving 
• Fortify social-emotional skills (e.g. risk-taking, collaboration) 
• Provide student-centered, culturally responsive teaching 

Our Mission: Empowering & Enriching  

Our programs empower and enrich artists and communities by connecting them to one another. We employ artists to produce dynamic, creative, and educational programs in schools, senior centers, and local community spaces that open pathways for relationships, resources, and inspiration. Our programs nurture the transformative and generative power of the arts at the intersection of creative learning and labor.   

Our Vision: Nurturing & Liberating   

We envision a creative-learning ecosystem that is nurturing, liberating, and responsive. This community network — including students and artists of all ages, cultures, genders and economic means — makes opportunities for artistic expression and professional development accessible, empowering, and transformative.  

Our Values: Honoring & Collaborating  

We value creative learning approaches of cultural responsiveness, inclusive collaboration, empathy, respect, and excellence through authenticity. We believe these approaches empower artists and learners by fostering the safety to be problem-solvers, facilitating the inspiration to be creative, activating the tools to be adaptive, strengthening the support to be brave, and unleashing the freedom to be unique. 

Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) is accepting applications for school program Teaching Artists (TA) for the 2024-2025 school year! 

We host programming at schools throughout Brooklyn, primarily November-June, both after school and during school hours. Applicants do not need to live in Brooklyn but must have the ability to travel to Brooklyn. Applicants living in Brooklyn districts 18 & 20 are highly encouraged to apply. BAC TA’s can expect an average of 1-3 residencies (on average, 1.5-2.5 hours per week for 12 weeks per residency) per school year depending on programming needs. In addition to teaching hours, each residency includes paid planning and professional development hours. All hours are currently billed at $85/hour. BAC TA’s have access to Materials for the Arts and NYC Arts in Education Roundtable events. 

Our programming mediums include Theater & Performance, Music, General Dance, Global Dance, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Digital Media, and STEAM. We serve students that are English Language Learners and in D75 programs. We primarily serve K-8th grade students but we do also serve a smaller percentage of high school students. 

Interested in learning more? Join us for any of the following Prospective TA events: 

• Info Session: Monday 8/5, 12pm-2pm ET, Zoom, registration required – https://BAC-AIE-info-session.eventbrite.com 
• CV Workshop: Monday 8/12, 12pm-2pm ET, Zoom, registration required – https://BAC-resume-workshop.eventbrite.com 
• Lesson Plan Workshop: Monday 8/19, 12pm-2pm ET, Zoom, registration required – https://BAC-lesson-plan-workshop.eventbrite.com 

Desired Applicants are TA’s that: 

• Are legally eligible to work in the United States and can provide current and complete documentation for work.  
• Can teach in English AND another language, particularly Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian  
• Have experience with Social Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive Education, Trauma Informed Teaching, and Abolitionist Focused Education 
• Have experience teaching English Language Learners and neurodiverse, disabled, and D75 cohorts 
• May or may not have experience teaching STEAM but are interested to learn more about how to 
• Have availability Monday’s – Friday’s, November – June, for in school programming (8am-3pm) and/or after school programming (2pm-5pm) 
• Can teach multiple arts disciplines or specialties within a discipline 
• Represent the populations of students that we are serving. We serve students of the following identities and seek to add TA’s to our roster that identify similarly:
  • Black, Hispanic, and Asian students
  • LGBTQ+ students
  • Immigrant students
  • Disabled and neurodiverse students
• While we are accepting applications from TAs that can teach any medium in Literary Arts, Dance, Theatre, Music, Visual Arts, & Digital Media, we are particularly looking for TAs who can teaching the following specialties:
  • Global Dance – Hula, Flamenco, African dance, Afro-Caribbean dance, Irish step dance, Mexican dance, Indian dance, Capoeira, etc
  • Visual Arts – mosaics, jewelry making, sculpture, mural, comic book creation
  • Music – music theory, songwriting, instrumentalists
  • Digital Media – digital filmmaking, digital photography, digital illustration, animation, game design
  • TAs that have experience with Dungeons & Dragons or improvisation and storytelling based role playing games

• Attend orientation sessions
• Plan and execute curriculum based in BAC’s values and education goals
• Facilitate weekly classes with students K-12th
• Submit residency paperwork in a timely fashion

• View and submit your application here by August 31. You must complete the application in one sitting.
• You can expect to provide a resume or CV, 1-3 samples of your artistic work, a sample lesson plan, and 3 references who can speak about your arts education work
• After your application is submitted, applicants moving forward will receive an email to schedule teaching demo sessions at the BAC Office in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
• Questions may be emailed to Arts in Education Coordinator for School Partnerships, Allie Marotta, amarotta@brooklynartscouncil.org, no calls please.

Brooklyn Arts Council strives to a foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where our employees and volunteers – whatever their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education, or ability – feel valued and respected. 

We are committed to being a nondiscriminatory organization that provides equal opportunity for employment and advancement in our programs and at our worksites. We respect and value diverse life experiences and heritages, and work to ensure that all voices are valued and heard. We are committed to modeling diversity and inclusion for the arts community in Brooklyn, and to maintaining an inclusive environment with equitable treatment for all.