Bow Arts serves a wide range of schools and colleges by providing high-quality arts experiences for children, young people, and teachers. We work with artist educators to provide bespoke projects that are designed around the needs of individual schools.
Being an artist educator
Bow Arts works with creative, hands-on individuals, who bring their experience and expertise as professional artists to their roles as artist educators.
Being an artist educator is about working collaboratively with schools to deliver innovative, creative learning experiences that challenge and inspire young people and teachers, supporting them to produce high-quality work.
Work with us
We are accepting new artists to join our talented pool of Artist Educators. Currently, we are specifically interested in hearing from artist educators with demonstrable experience in the following fields:
- Metalwork
- Woodwork
- Digital art
- Artist cover for teacher’s PPA (planning, preparation and assessment) time
To find out more, please see the Job Pack below.
To apply for this role, please complete the online application form with 3 images showing examples of your own practice and 3 images showing examples of your learning work.
Please also complete our online Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form as part of your application.
For help on the application process, please view the recruitment process guidance.
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FAQs
How much will I get paid
Our current artist fees are:
Planning meeting: £53.30
Half Day Workshop: £95.95
Full Day Workshop: £191.90 a day
Projects can vary from one-off sessions to weekly workshops across a whole term or academic year.
We pay artists a fee for their attendance at a planning meeting. An artist day rate is the equivalent of 9am to 5pm, although we recognise that only a proportion of this is likely to be contact time delivering the project. The remaining hours contribute towards planning, preparation and evaluation. We pay half day rates for any workshop under 3.5 hours. We do not pay artist travel expenses.
Do I need a DBS Certificate?
Yes, you will need an enhanced DBS certificate for working with children. You can apply for a new DBS check through Bow Arts, but we ask that artists pay for this.
We are able to accept a DBS check completed through another organisation, provided that it was issued within the last three years. We will need to see a hard copy for our records.
Do I need particular experience?
Yes, we want our artist educators to have experience working with, and leading projects for young people in either formal or informal settings.
However, we run an Artist Educator Trainee Programme for artists without the necessary experience looking to become lead artist educators with Bow Arts. We accept 4-6 artists each year to take part in this programme.
The programme includes:
- Supporting lead artists on Bow Arts’ projects in a range of school settings
- Gaining skills in planning and evaluating formal learning projects
- Supported group meetings with Bow Arts staff and lead artists
By the end of the programme, trainees will have experience in planning projects, writing session plans, delivering a workshop activity, and understanding school settings and curriculum contexts.
We recruit for the Artist Educator Trainee Programme annually in the summer period. Please check our opportunities page for applications.
Do you provide any training?
Yes, we strongly encourage our artist educators to continue developing their artistic and educational practices. Bow Arts supports this by providing regular training opportunities for our artist educators, free of charge.
These include external training on specific topics, Arts Award advisor training, and Skills Exchanges among our artist educator pool.
If you would like to know more about becoming an artist educator with Bow Arts please email learning@bowarts.com.
