What Does an Art Instructor Do?

Here are examples of responsibilities from real art instructor resumes representing typical tasks they are likely to perform in their roles.

• Manage day of logistics and resolve problems to ensure events run smoothly.
• Instruct elementary school and high school age students in classes such as sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics.
• Create unique process-base art education congruent with session themes in sculpture and 3D media for students five to six years old.
• Organize annual trips to NYC for performing arts students.
• Digitize images and articles into PDF documents for educational use.
• Lecture on the topics of public art and intercultural management.
• Serve on the diversity committee and create infographics about trends in changing student demographics.
• Maintain YouTube and Vimeo accounts with current videos and accurate titling and descriptions for SEO purposes.
• Direct children in daily activities such as painting, sketching, designing, sculpturing, and photography.
• Develop activities in printmaking, mask making, book structure, and mural creation throughout spring and summer sessions.
• Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, photography or computer software to create artwork.
• Instruct modern and post modern movements / artists with an emphasis on becoming more aware of various aesthetic philosophies and theories.
• Create clay pottery and sculpture appreciation elementary art curriculum.
• Provide differentiated instruction on literature analysis and writing composition.
• Incorporate creative drama, pantomime and improvisational exercises with middle school students.