Position: Teaching Artist Lead
Reports to: Inclusive Learning Manager
Direct Reports: 0
Division: Learning & Engagement
FLSA Status: Part Time, Hourly, Non-Exempt
Compensation: $43.50/hour
Work Hours: 25 hours per week
Work Schedule: 20 hours per week on-site (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and select Saturday mornings), with the option to complete the remaining 5 hours remotely. Evening and weekend work at program events is required approximately 5 times per month.
About Frye Art Museum
Founded in 1952, the Frye is Seattle’s only free art museum, bringing together art and new ideas within a stunning Olson Sundberg Kundig-designed building in historic First Hill. A foundation collection of turn-of-the-century oil paintings is bolstered by a wide range of holdings in modern and contemporary art, reflecting our region’s evolving identity and a commitment to exploring the art of our time. Learn more at fryemuseum.org.
Position Summary
The Frye Art Museum is seeking an experienced, innovative, detail-oriented, and community-connected teaching artist to join our Learning & Engagement: Inclusive Learning team as the Teaching Artist Lead.
In this role, you will support the development, coordination, and implementation of diverse learning programs at the Frye Art Museum. These programs engage K-12 students, families, adults, intergenerational community groups, and educators through inquiry- and object-based teaching methodologies. In collaboration with the Inclusive Learning Manager, you will explore the museum’s collection and exhibitions to create dynamic, exhibition-inspired learning experiences that bring the museum’s galleries and art studio to life. Lesson planning and curriculum development will emphasize building strong connections to exhibitions while elucidating the history, technique, and artistic trajectories that inform the work on view.
The Lead brings a creative, audience-centered approach to lesson planning and facilitation, elevating Frye programs through distinctive experiences. You will plan learning activities that surprise and delight a wide range of audiences—using high-quality and unconventional materials, sensory-based experiences, and other inventive approaches that help define what makes Frye programs unique.
In addition, you will play a key role in designing curricula, building local community partnerships, facilitating in-gallery discussions and studio instruction, and participating in museum outreach activities. You will also support and help guide a cohort of on-call teaching artists by modeling strong facilitation practices, contributing to training and shared resources, coordinating communication and schedules as needed, and ensuring program quality and consistency across sessions.
This position plays an active role in advancing the Frye’s commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging by collaborating with a wide range of artists, students, teachers, and community members to deliver arts-based learning and engagement programs.
The Frye Art Museum is seeking an experienced, innovative, detail-oriented, and community-connected teaching artist to join our Learning & Engagement: Inclusive Learning team as the Teaching Artist Lead.
In this role, you will support the development, coordination, and implementation of diverse learning programs at the Frye Art Museum. These programs engage K-12 students, families, adults, intergenerational community groups, and educators through inquiry- and object-based teaching methodologies. In collaboration with the Inclusive Learning Manager, you will explore the museum’s collection and exhibitions to create dynamic, exhibition-inspired learning experiences that bring the museum’s galleries and art studio to life. Lesson planning and curriculum development will emphasize building strong connections to exhibitions while elucidating the history, technique, and artistic trajectories that inform the work on view.
The Lead brings a creative, audience-centered approach to lesson planning and facilitation, elevating Frye programs through distinctive experiences. You will plan learning activities that surprise and delight a wide range of audiences—using high-quality and unconventional materials, sensory-based experiences, and other inventive approaches that help define what makes Frye programs unique.
In addition, you will play a key role in designing curricula, building local community partnerships, facilitating in-gallery discussions and studio instruction, and participating in museum outreach activities. You will also support and help guide a cohort of on-call teaching artists by modeling strong facilitation practices, contributing to training and shared resources, coordinating communication and schedules as needed, and ensuring program quality and consistency across sessions.
This position plays an active role in advancing the Frye’s commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging by collaborating with a wide range of artists, students, teachers, and community members to deliver arts-based learning and engagement programs.
