Arts Ignite is a New York City-based arts education nonprofit founded to help young people develop agency, build critical life skills, and experience the joy of creative expression.

In 2006, a group of motivated Juilliard students joined forces with Broadway musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell to found Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP), created with the belief that every young person has a story and a voice that deserves to be heard.

In 2021, after 15 years of delivering arts programming in the United States and around the world as ASTEP, the organization stepped into its next stage of growth as Arts Ignite. The name is new, but the passion is the same: to help young people find their voice through the joy and potency of making art.

Arts Ignite is seeking Spanish-speaking Teaching Artists to lead 45-minute workshops at a partner site in the Bronx. Classes can cover a variety of topics including (but not limited to) visual arts, dance, theater, creative writing, and music.

Arts Ignite Teaching Artists at this site must have experience teaching youth in Spanish, teaching in a school environment, and teaching art in culturally diverse classrooms. Workshops occur twice monthly on Fridays from 3:30-4:15 PM.

Teaching artists must prepare lesson plans and submit them to Arts Ignite staff no later than one week prior to the workshop.

This position requires complete commitment and artists must be able to comply with all onboarding requirements detailed below:

• Background Check
• New York Statewide Central Register Database Check (SCR)
  • Out-of-state SCR if you’ve lived outside of New York in the past five (5) years
• Fingerprinting
• Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSASH) every six (6) months
• Healthcare Provider-signed certification of physical and mental capability to perform assigned duties
• Vaccination records for:
  • Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR)
  • Varicella (Chicken Pox)
  • TDAP (Tetanus, Diphtheria, Acellular Pertussis)
  • Influenza

If you are available and interested in leading any of these workshops, please fill out this form (https://forms.gle/ktyNHpXkeUfYyPWy7). If you have any questions, please contact Program Manager Jared Cavazos at jared@artsignite.org

ARTS IGNITE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Arts Ignite welcomes and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all without regard to race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, marital status or favorite color.

ARTS IGNITE’S COMMITMENT TO ANTIRACISM AND ANTI-OPPRESSION
Arts Ignite is committed to antiracism and anti-oppression as a foundation for all areas of our organizational operation. In addition, we are committed to recruiting and retaining staff members and teaching artists who are representative of the communities we serve and to championing culturally responsive arts education practices.