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The Skirball Cultural Center’s In-School Residency program is seeking
Proposals from Teaching Artists to facilitate a 6 to 8 week workshop for a
Fall 2015 digital media residency.

Proposal Deadline: May 11, 2015.

ABOUT the Skirball Cultural Center’s In-School Residency Program:
Each year, the Skirball presents an In-School Residency program designed to transform students from observers of art and culture into invested, collaborative creators of their own powerful works—igniting their self-confidence, imagination, and enthusiasm. Students and their teachers work intensively over the course of multiple weeks with a skilled teaching artist and Skirball educators to learn basic techniques in one or more creative disciplines. Each residency culminates in a professionally produced, student-created program at the students’ school and the Skirball Cultural Center.

The Skirball Cultural Center is seeking teaching artists for a paid six- to eight-week high school residency. Presented in conjunction with the Skirball exhibition Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams, this program explores some of the critical civic issues facing students today through the lens of storytelling, in the vein of such programs as Youth Radio and Radiolab. Through research, writing, interviews, and audio and digital media production, students will work closely with the teaching artist to embark on an investigation of American identity and democracy.

TEACHING ARTIST—October–December, 2015 (six- to eight-week program)
The Education Department at the Skirball Cultural Center is seeking a teaching artist to lead an in-school residency that will teach skills and engage high school participants in storytelling around the themes of cultural identity, family, and issues of civil and human rights. The series of workshops must be scaffolded for a public school classroom and sequenced to accommodate the high school schedule. Workshops should be structured so that students develop digital media skills, apply principles of creativity and personal meaning making, and provide opportunities for students to create original work reflecting their personal response to the historical period of Japanese internment as depicted in Manzanar: the Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams and the contemporary issues around identity and civil liberties. Teaching artists will work closely with the classroom teacher and with an Educator from the Skirball Center to plan and execute the class and showcase the work at a Skirball and at the school site.

Key responsibilities:
• Develop a syllabus and lesson plans for the 6 to 8 week series of workshops.
• Meet deadlines for submission of materials.
• Facilitate 1 or 2 hour in-school workshops at the school site and participate in field trips with the class to the Skirball.
• Develop a culminating student-produced event at the school site and at the Skirball.

QUALIFICATIONS
The qualified candidate will have professional experience relevant to the material, a working knowledge or exposure to the history of Japanese internment during WWII, and at least two years previous teaching experience (experience working with high school students, preferred). A successful candidate will be organized and a good communicator/collaborator; be flexible and able to adapt lesson plans based on Skirball feedback; be able to communicate clearly and passionately about their work.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
Teaching Artists are hired as independent contractors for in-school residencies.

HOW TO APPLY: Please submit the following:
1) Cover letter describing your teaching experience, personal creative practice, and resonance to the history of Japanese internment during WWII and to contemporary issues around identity and civil liberties.
2) Resume or curriculum vitae
3) Documentation of teaching (1 sample lesson plan or podcast)
4) Residency proposal (max. 500 words describing your vision for the in-school residency including objectives for the program, a possible weekly sequence of lessons, and a description of the end-product: student radio diaries, podcasts, apps, or mixed media projects.)
5) List of dates(s) available to teach; the residency will take place over the course of 6 to 8 weeks between October and December of 2015, during school hours

Please submit your proposal to:

Rachel Bernstein Stark
Head of School and Teacher Programs:
rbernstein@skirball.org mailto:rbernstein@skirball.org
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Questions: (310) 440-4647