Teaching Artist Roster

Teaching Artist Roster is sponsored by Mississippi Arts Commission. A listing of professional artists and education professionals available to work with educators and administrators in K-12 classrooms.

# Teaching Artist Roster Application Process - Mississippi Arts Commission [](https://arts. ms.gov/grants/grants-for-individuals/teaching-artist-roster-application-process/#) [](https://arts.

ms.gov/grants/grants-for-individuals/teaching-artist-roster-application-process/#) * Board & Acknowledgements * Annual Report and Budget Request * Sign-Up for the MAC E-Newsletter * America250 Mississippi Public Art Grant * Public Art in Community Grant * Grants for Organizations * Frequently Asked Questions * Arts Day at the Capitol * Arts Education Initiatives * Folk and Traditional Arts * Mississippi Poet Laureate * Mississippi Whole Schools * Accessibility Resources * State and National Organizations # Teaching Artist Roster Application Process The Teaching Artist Rosteris a listing of professional artists and arts educators who are available to work with schools and community organizations in developing strategies for using the arts in a variety of settings.

Mini-Grant funds are available from MAC to schools and organizations to support presentations, workshops or residencies by these artists. Teaching Artists work at a professional level within their artistic discipline but have also made arts education a central component in their work. They have developed their skills as educators along with their artistic skills.

Teaching artists can work in a variety of settings, including schools, youth arts programs and community centers, and with professional arts organizations.

Following are MAC’s main goals for members of the Teaching Artist Roster: * Provide arts learning opportunities that align with Arts Learning Standards developed by the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) * Make connections between the arts and MDE’s K-12 Academic Content Standards * Collaborate with classroom teachers or arts education committees * Work with both teachers (through professional development) and students (through arts integrated, hands-on lessons) * Support efforts to integrate arts learning with other subject areas * Assist school staff in continuing arts education programming in the absence of an arts teacher through sharing strategies, techniques, and curricula Membership in the Teaching Artist Roster provides artists a way to promote themselves to schools and arts organizations around the state.

Artists who are approved for the program are part of the listing for three years. Inclusion in the Teaching Artist Roster does not guarantee bookings within Mississippi schools. MAC does not promote individual artists on the Teaching Artist Roster or handle booking arrangements for them.

**Application Deadline: June 1 and November 1** **Please note:** Applications are available through our online grant system. Please contact MAC staff if you have any questions. MAC will provide reasonable accommodations for those individuals who are unable to access MAC’s online grant system.

Paper applications are available upon request. Applicants must request a paper application no later than two weeks before the deadline, and it must be postmarked no later than the application deadline. Applications will be available and accepted concurrently with our Mini-Grant rounds starting on February 1 and October 1**.

**To be considered for funding, applications must be submitted and authorized by 11:59 p. m. on **June 1 and November 1.

** Please Note: The Teaching Artist Roster and the Artist Roster are distinct programs. Artists who are interested in being included on both listings must submit separate applications for each program. You may apply to the Teaching Artist Roster if you are: * a professional artist or arts educator.

Individuals are considered to be a professional artist or arts educator if they * earn at least part of their annual income working with educators and others showing how their art form may be used to enhance learning and teaching * consider their artistic work a career * maintain a high level of artistic quality, and * make a significant time investment in their artistic disciplines through practice, performance, and instruction * not a full-time student, and * more than 18 years of age **Please note**_:_ Unlike other MAC programs, applicants to the Teaching Artist Roster are not required to be residents of Mississippi.

Applications to the Teaching Artist Roster are reviewed using the following criteria: **1.

Artistic & Teaching Abilities** (40 points) * Exhibits a high level of artistic ability * Demonstrates experience working in a preK-12 school setting, with teachers and administrators as well as students * Shows the ability to develop lesson plans that integrate the arts into non-arts curriculum that align with MDE’s College and Career Readiness Arts Learning Standards * Introduces the vocabulary, concepts, strategies and techniques of their artistic discipline through their work with schools and community organizations **2.

Leadership & Communication Skills** (30 points) * Is able to present information effectively to different types of education audiences (students, teachers, or members of community groups) * Has experience guiding teachers, administrators and community groups in developing their own arts education programs * Demonstrates the ability to make connections between the arts and other content areas **3.

Planning & Organizational Abilities** (30 points) * Has experience in collaborating with clients to develop different types of projects * Makes efficient use of limited contact time with teachers or students * Provides potential school clients with a thorough set of pre and post-visit materials Applicants approved for the Teaching Artist Roster are part of the listing for three years.

In order to be eligible to re-apply for the Roster, Teaching Artists must participate in at least one professional development activity during their three years with the program.

Acceptable training activities include: * a 3 to 6 hour training or workshop specifically for teaching artists; * a conference related to arts education or the artist’s specific discipline;or * another professional experience that improves your work as a teaching artist ## Evaluation Requirements Applicants to the Teaching Artist Roster must include reference forms completed by four different individuals as part of their application.

These individuals must be familiar with your work as a teaching artist. References could include a teacher that the artist worked with at a school or an administrator who hired the artist to conduct a workshop for teachers. Schools that receive MAC grant funds to support work by a member of the Teaching Artist Roster are required to submit an evaluation of the artist as a part of their final reporting requirements for the grant.

Copies of the evaluations are placed in the files of Teaching Artists and are made available to the review panel when the artist reapplies for the program. ## Re-Application To The Roster Artists who are currently members of the Roster are required to re-apply every three years in order to maintain their membership in the program. The reapplication process is the same as the initial application process.

Artists who fail to reapply by the deadline will be removed from the Mississippi Artist Roster by July 1. However, if an organization applies to hire a Roster Artist set to roll off July 1 during the May Mini-Grant round, MAC will honor the organization’s application. ## Responsibilities Of Artists Applicants who are approved for the Teaching Artist Roster are required to provide MAC with their current contact information.

They are responsible for securing and arranging their own bookings, as well as providing presenters with adequate publicity materials. Teaching Roster artists should be familiar with MAC’s grant programs guidelines in order to inform potential presenters about them. ## Responsibilities Of MAC MAC updates the Teaching Artist Roster annually on its agency website.

MAC does provide advisory assistance to schools that are looking for an artist to meet a programming need, but it does not actively promote or seek bookings for individual Roster Artists. Applications are available through our online grant system. If you are new to E-Grant, please refer to MAC’s video guide on how to create an account.

Please review the guides and video tutorials available on MAC’s **Frequently Asked Questions** page, then contact MAC staff if you have any questions. MAC will provide reasonable accommodations for those individuals who are unable to access MAC’s online grant system. Paper applications are available upon request.

Applicants must request a paper application no later than two weeks before the deadline, and it must be postmarked no later than the application deadline. Please review the guides and video tutorials available on MAC’s **Frequently Asked Questions** page, then contact MAC staff if you have any questions.

The application will require submission of the following documents through the E-Grantsystem: * Narrative (two-page maximum) in which you describe: * Your work as an artist and your development as a teaching artist (What got you interested in working with schools? How have you developed your teaching artist skills?)

* Your experience working with students and teachers * The specific services you can provide to schools, including consultations, training workshops, residencies, lectures, or coaching. * How your artistic discipline can be used to teach skills in different content areas of the pre-K-12 curriculum, such as language arts, mathematics, social studies or science. Note the concepts that help facilitate these connections.

* Provide details on your technical requirements for your work in schools. * Your current artistic resumé. This document should detail your work as a professional artist only (including work as a teaching artist).

Please include information on arts-related education (college level or other advanced training) as well as teaching artist training you have received. Do not include information about your non-arts work.

**Applicants who are re-applying to the Teaching Artist Roster** must include information in their resume on the teaching artist training that they attended during the past three years (required for all artists re-applying to the Teaching Artist Roster). * Two Sample Lesson Plans: * An arts-integrated plan (no more than two pages in length) for a student group.

The lesson should clearly reveal what you want the students to know both in the arts discipline and the subject content area. Follow the format of the sample lesson plan when creating your plan. * A plan for a teacher’s professional development workshop.

It should be no longer than two pages. Follow the format of the sample professional development workshop on the Teaching Artist Roster page of the MAC website when creating your plan. The workshop should model arts integration strategies that can be utilized by a teacher or community member.

* A list of your previous work in schools, including date(s), name of school, type of activity, and age groups with which you worked. Please note if any of these past activities were funded through MAC grants. * Teaching Artist Reference forms completed by **four** different teachers or administrators who are familiar with the applicant’s work as a teaching artist.

The reference must send their form in separately to MAC. * Appropriate samples of the applicant’s work as an artist (see the list below for details on what to submit). The samples must have been completed within the last three years.

* A list that describes the artistic work samples. These descriptions should include the titles and completion dates of each sample. Also include the medium and the approximate dimensions of each work (if appropriate for the art form).

* A digital promotional image of the applicant. The image should be high quality and suitable for printing in the Roster booklet. * A document containing the required information for the Teaching Artist Handbook.

This includes your contact information, a short bio, and a description of the type of workshop and programs you offer. If you have trouble uploading the work sample files to E-Grant, please consult the tutorials available in MAC’s**Frequently Asked Questions**. * **Literary Artists:** 10-15 pages of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, playwriting (original or adaptation), or a screenplay completed within the last three years.

If your submitted work sample is an excerpt from a longer work, you may include a one-page synopsis of the work as a whole. Published work must be submitted in typed manuscript rather than published form. The sample must be formatted using a 12-point font size and one inch margins on all sides of the page.

* **Media Artists:** Three video recordings with 5-10 minutes of excerpts of your work completed within the last three years. The list of work samples should include, for each excerpt, the title, length, date completed, technique, original format, genre (documentary, experimental, etc.) and the specific role of the applicant in creating the submitted work.

* **Performing Artists:** Three audio or video recordings containing 5-10 minutes of representative work completed within the last three years. Musicians should include at least three songs in their sample. On the list of work samples indicate the title, names of the artist(s), date, and location of recording.

Please note: storytellers, actors, dancers and other theatrical artists are required to submit video recordings of their samples. * **Visual Artists:** Applicants will be required to submit six digital images that feature the artist’s (not students’) work completed within the last three years. The images should be saved in JPEG format at 72dpi, with no image wider than 1240 pixels.

The work must have been completed within the last three years. Please submit the best quality images that you have available. * **Arts Educators**: A video recording with 5-10 minutes of the applicant actively engaging a classroom of learners in your arts discipline.

The presentation should reflect your submitted lesson plan. ### Work Sample File Types **Ineligible File Types:** * If you share media from your website, link directly to the video/audio rather than the home page. * MAC recommends applicants upload using the following file types: MP3, MOV, MP4, WMV, WMA.

* MAC recommends applicants upload links to video or audio files. Applicants can link to websites such asYouTube,Vimeo,Soundcloud,Bandcamp, etc. * MAC recommends applicants upload using the following file types: Word (. doc or .

dox), Excel (. xls, . xlr, or .

xlsx), PDF (. pdf), or JPEG (. jpeg).

* You may upload links contained in a Word Document or PDF. **May 1 & October 1** – Teaching Artist Roster application opens **June 1 & November 1** – Teaching Artist Roster application deadline **June & November** – Review of applications by MAC grant staff, with third party consultants as necessary **July & December** – Applicants are notified whether their application was approved or not.

No information on the grants of Teaching Artist Roster applications will be available from MAC prior to this date. For more information about the Teaching Artist Roster, please contact Charlotte Smelser, Arts Education Program Director at 601. 359.

6037 or csmelser@arts. ms.gov. #### Mississippi Arts Commission