Teaching Artist Project
Rigorous training and mentoring prepares artists to achieve academic and curricular goals while drawing upon their professional passion.
What is the Teaching Artist Project?
Teaching Artist Project, or TAP, is a collective of diversely experienced arts educators training emerging and working teaching artists who are looking for a supportive community to engage in a self-reflective, justice-oriented learning practice in service of their teaching. The program entails a rigorous, 8-month curriculum, rich in social justice-based pedagogy that also provides supervised on-the-job experience.
TAP supports Community-Word Project’s global mission to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills. Formerly known as the Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program (TATIP), Teaching Artist Project was the first of its kind and remains today the only comprehensive training program for working Teaching Artists. Teaching Artist Project alums have gone on to serve over 250,000 students throughout the world.
Through the 8-month long Teaching Artist Project training, participants will:
- Expand teaching through experiential, inquiry and reflection processes
- Investigate social justice education, pedagogies and philosophies
- Explore creative processes and critical thinking
- Implement strategies for classroom management
- Acquire and utilize teaching methods for multiple learning types and levels
- Create collaborative arts lessons
- Build community with artists, teachers and organizations across New York City
- And much more!
Due to the continued outbreak of COVID-19, the 2021-2022 season of TAP will be held virtually and restructured into two sessions, Fall (Oct-Dec) and Spring (Feb-April).
The focus of each session is “what is teaching artistry now?” This includes workshops on virtual learning, power and privilege, facilitation, and career development. Internships will focus on applicable classroom skills, building a portfolio of work, and administrative skills and experience.
Information about future summer and fall programming available soon.
Explore More About Teaching Artist Project
Calendar
Stay up to date with all Teaching Artist Project programs, workshops, job fairs, career opportunities, and application deadlines.
Graduates
Our graduates have gone on to teach over 250,000 students worldwide in public schools, libraries, community centers, and non-traditional teaching spaces.
FAQ
Learn mores about the Teaching Artist Project programs – including eligibility, teaching pedagogy, program fees, and scholarships with our FAQs.
TAP 2022
Get the latest information about our upcoming trainings throughout the year, including the next session of Summer Institute and what you can expect from our programs next Fall.
Scholarships
The Wiley Fund provides scholarships for 50-70% of participants in each TAP class, making it possible for many artists to participate in the training who would otherwise not have the opportunity to do so.
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