Teach with Us
Thank you for your interest in teaching at Northwind Art!
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL INFORMATION
Our classes and workshops are taught by a diverse and skilled group of more than 50 instructors annually. We invite online and in-person lecture, course and workshop proposals year-round, and schedule them well in advance. We seek to create a balanced curriculum with a variety of content for students ranging from beginner to advanced levels.
We provide administrative support and transaction processing for all classes, so our teaching artists need only focus on their teaching. This includes all student inquiries and communications ahead of the class. Northwind Art additionally provides Zoom Pro hosting for our online classes and provides light technical help for you and your students.
To promote and fill upcoming classes, we feature them in our weekly e-newsletter, which is sent to more than 5,000 subscribers. We also post on community calendars and share through social media to thousands of followers. We place marketing materials for our classes in our downtown gallery, other venues in Jefferson County and other marketing channels. Teaching artists are also expected to promote their class to their own community via email, flyers and/or social media.
Teaching artists are guaranteed a minimum of $50/hour (including 1 prep hour per day) so they're compensated for their time even at our minimum enrollment — 4 students for workshops, 5 for series. When a class has 6 or more students enrolled, Northwind will instead split the full class income 50/50 with the teacher — compensation that reflects the added work of a larger class and will exceed the guaranteed minimum.
An exception applies to classes that require more private instruction or where our facilities cap enrollment at 5 students. These classes will run at a minimum of 3 students, paid at $50/hr, and will share income 50/50 when 4 or 5 students are enrolled. These classes will be priced higher than standard workshops.
When submitting your class proposal, please complete the form below and send us three to four high-resolution images representing what participants will create or learn during your course. Also, please include at least one professionally rendered head shot of yourself. These must be sent to admin@northwindart.org with the proposed course name in the subject line.
RETURNING COURSE PROPOSAL INFORMATION
If your course has been offered successfully in the past (minimum enrollment met or exceeded), a new proposal is not necessary.
If a class has been offered in the past and canceled due to low enrollment (based on most recent offering), a new proposal is encouraged, but not required. In your proposal include a rationale for offering it again. For example, you have a group of participants ready to sign up; you have established stronger and more effective avenues for promoting your class, or you have restructured the class.
To submit a returning course proposal, email admin@northwindart.org with new dates you are available to teach the course. Approved courses are generally scheduled on a first-proposed basis.