EDU | Teaching Artist Advocacy

Teaching Artist Advocacy

It is imperative that teaching artists and the organizations partnering to serve community are aligned with how, why and the supportive and ethical conditions in which we will work.

PROFESSIONAL RESPECT

As fellow professionals in discussion regarding proposed work, mutual respect is required of our choices and actions before, during and after our connection. This includes trusting in the skills and experience of the teaching artists hired for work. Given artists have the expertise required for the proposed project, it is natural that the artist contracted for the work would lead the proposed service solution in response to the client’s needs.

CULTURAL EQUITY & SOCIAL JUSTICE

In order for Teaching Artists and Organizations to function well together, there must be in place or plans to incorporate inclusive and diverse leadership, cultural respect and equitable practices within the organizations hiring artists. Organizations complicit in oppressive systems and structures can not work ethically with artists from communities marginalized by those same systems. Therefore, we are within our rights to reject offers of work from such establishments.

HEALTH & WELL-BEING

Especially while navigating a world-wide pandemic, artists must not be put in harm’s way to entertain the public. Precautions based on the artist’s safety requirements are necessary and should be included in project agreements.

FAIR COMPENSATION

Artists of every discipline are managing creative businesses and incur costs of operation as any other small business and have responsibilities to our households and families. We greatly appreciate the consideration of our services and are prepared to work for fair compensation.

Teaching Artist Guild Pay Rate Calculator

To help hiring organizations advocate for funding to pay teaching artists a living wage:

view the pay rate calculator

Note: Consider the full breadth of work required and performed by teaching artists including project development/direction, research/planning, tech training, materials, teaching hours (in class) documentation, evaluation, culminating events (requiring time/presence/input) transportation and operating expenses to name a few. As any other professional whose time and expertise are honored and respected so too are artists and educators deserving of the same courtesy.

visit TAMA’s website

CUSTOM ARTS EDUCATION

To book events and programs for your organization or school, submit an inquiry.

Art Lives Studio’s Virtual Arts Education Program is made possible in part by the generous funding of the

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and Marrazzo Family Foundation.

Member of TAMA
Teaching Artists of the Mid Atlantic

< Back to EDU