Job Descriptions:

The Blake School seeks an interim Middle School visual art teacher to begin this fall (in November) through the remainder of the 2024-25 school year. The successful candidate will be an actively practicing artist with significant middle school teaching experience and genuine enthusiasm for working with early adolescents. This 1.0 FTE position, on the Blake campus in Hopkins, Minnesota, reports directly to both the Middle School division director and the PK-12 director of visual and performing arts.

Blake is particularly interested in candidates who will enrich the diversity of identity, lived experience and thinking that makes a community strong and empowers students to engage across differences. The search committee will begin reviewing applications immediately.

Required Experience:

Responsibilities:

• Teach five sections of visual art each quarter

• Serve as a seventh grade advisor

• Participate in required faculty meetings, trainings and staffings

• Serve as a member of the department of visual and performing arts, attending meetings and supporting the work of the department

• Maintain gallery displays of student art in hallways, lobbies and other creative spaces

• Support the school, its mission and its leadership

• Engage fully with the community-based experience of an independent school

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree (BA/BS/BFA); a master’s degree will be an advantage

• Classroom experience teaching foundational components of 2D/3D visual art

• Ability to differentiate instruction when necessary to reach all learners

• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with stakeholders across the school

• Excellent communication skills

• Proven organizational skills

Keyword: Visual Arts

From: The Blake School