forwarded from The Cloud Foundation, Boston:

The Cloud Foundation seeks teaching artists for The Boston 100K ArtScience Innovation Prize, an after-school art and design competition that enables high school students to explore groundbreaking ideas. We are looking for artists working in all media (visual arts, film, theatre, etc.) to develop weekly workshops that enable students to explore ideas through the arts while working with themes at the cutting edge of science. Participation in the ArtScience Prize offers teaching artists a chance to develop new strategies for exploring interdisciplinary work and helping urban teens to discover their passion and creative potential outside a traditional arts education setting. We seek excited, experienced teaching artists in all arts and design disciplines who have an innovative vision of how to incorporate artistic study with skills that will help to prepare teens for the world of tomorrow.

The ArtScience Prize focuses on the core tenets of artscience - the idea that students can be most innovative and creative when they are given the space to explore interdisciplinary approaches and pursue projects that are driven by their own passion and ideas. Teaching artists will be trained to incorporate 21st-century skills (brainstorming, use of technology, interdisciplinary thinking, etc.), core artscience ideas, and the 2009 ArtScience Prize theme of neuroinformatics into their teaching practice. Selected teaching artists will attend a summer training session to become familiar with these concepts and share strategies for incorporating artscience themes into their arts teaching. Teaching artists will be paired with a college-age teaching assistant. Arts classes take place at Cloud Place, a Boston-based arts center for urban teens. Teaching artists will teach two 3-hour sessions per week on weekday afternoons throughout the school year. Instructors are compensated at a rate of $50/hour for teaching and $25/hour for planning and meeting time.

If you're excited about the thought that your arts teaching can be the catalyst for a new wave of innovative thinking among Boston's teens, and if you're enthusiastic about incorporating your ideas into a flexible curriculum framework that focuses on igniting the inner spark of creativity for young people, we encourage you to apply!

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION [PDF] at
http://www.artscience100k.org/100K_CallforArtists.pdf
DEADLINE: JULY 10, 2009

If you have questions, please contact info@coudfoundation.org. No phone calls please.

   

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