Training Programs
TAG is working hard to build and maintain the most comprehensive list of Teaching Artist Training Programs anywhere.
It is part of our long-term roadmap to add these programs to the Asset Map, but in the meantime we hope the list below is useful for those looking for professional development and training opportunities.
- All
- Austin TX
- Boston MA Area
- Chicago IL
- Chicago IL Area
- Cleveland OH Area
- Indiana
- Los Angeles CA
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- National
- New Haven CT
- New Mexico
- New Orleans LA Area
- New York
- New York City
- Northeast Texas
- Oregon
- Philadelphia PA
- San Diego CA Area
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Seattle WA
- South Florida
- Twin Cities Area
- Washington State
Mini-apprenticeships with Master Artists and Makers
- VAWAA (Vacation With An Artist)
- Global
- Serving: Various art forms like Ceramics, Textiles, Painting, Woodworking, Performing Arts, Writing, Culinary, Sculpture, Paper, Metal, Writing and more
- We offer 1-1 mini-apprenticeships with curated master artists and makers around the world so you can expand your hands-on skills and incorporate global cultural knowledge and mastery in your teachings. Take a look at https://vawaa.com
El Otra Lado
- Academy for the Love of Learning
- Sante Fe, NM
- Our El Otro Lado program, a community arts engagement training, works with schools, communities, artists, and activists to create transformative storytelling and art experiences that transcend boundaries in communities. We pair teaching artists with hosts, teachers, people working in community, or activists, who work together to implement the curriculum in their shared space.
BA, Performing Arts and Social Justice
- University of San Francisco
- San Francisco, CA
- Serving: San Francisco Bay Area
- The Performing Arts and Social Justice major provides a robust toolkit for artists in different disciplines — dance, music, theater, stage design — to use their work to create a more humane and just world.
MA in Art, Education, and Community Practice
- NYU Steinhardt
- NY, NY
- Serving: New York
- Looks for students who are interested in envisioning new ways that artists, educators, designers, community organizers, and social activists can work together, and within community-based settings to propose critical interventions that inspire dialogue and catalyze social change through the arts.
MFA in Drama & Theatre for Youth and Communities
- University of Texas
- Austin, TX
- Serving: Austin, TX
- The DTYC program is inherently interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on practice and scholarship from many fields such as theatre/drama with youth, education, cultural studies, performance studies, health and wellness, youth development, and visual arts. Throughout their program of study, students in DTYC participate in socially engaged and culturally responsible coursework, fieldwork, performance-making and research activities.
Yale School of Music
- Yale School of Music
- New Haven, CT
- Serving: New Haven, CT
- In the Teaching Artists program, Yale School of Music graduate students work in New Haven Public School classrooms as assistants to NHPS music teachers. YSM Teaching Artists work 3-10 hours each week during the school year. Their work in these music programs both contributes to the classroom and improves their teaching skills. Teaching Artists lead group lessons, work one-on-one with individual students, and assist with activities like music theory and ear training.