ArtistYear Resident Teaching Artist applications for the 2025-26 service year are open!
Serve as an AmeriCorps Resident Teaching Artist!
"To me, being a teaching artist means sharing the love that I have for the violin and for music and everything it has done in my life."
Artists Serving Our Nation as Teaching Artists
ArtistYear is dedicated to addressing inequities in Arts Education for K-12 students.
To ensure that every low-income student in America has the opportunity to reap the social-emotional and academic benefits associated with arts learning, ArtistYear created the first National AmeriCorps program for artists to serve to our nation.
We develop, support, and place exceptional Resident Teaching Artists to serve full-time at low-income schools.
This innovative strategy significantly expands arts and creative learning opportunities for the communities we serve, while improving student academic and social-emotional development, enhancing school climate and capacity, and developing a new generation of artists steeped in national service.
Join us!
Support ArtistYear's vision to democratize creative learning!
Art is a powerful, evidence-based tool for helping address inequities. Yet art resources are limited for low-income schools. Want to help change this? Together, we can via a National Service Arts Corps!Crystal takes us inside her service year at Lighthouse Elementary in Queens, NY
“When my students had a rough day, I encouraged them to take it out on the dance floor, in acting class, or in our school play. The result? My students discovered that they have a voice, and their opinions and feelings matter.”