NATIONAL SERVICE FOR ARTS INNOVATORS

ArtistYear Resident Teaching Artist applications for the 2025-26 service year are open!

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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." Camille | Violinist | ArtistYear '22 and '23

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.

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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!
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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.” Crystal Simon | Actor & Dancer | ArtistYear '18

“ArtistYear taught me the power of community and how impactful it can be when dedicated people come together to drive a mission forward.”

“[My Resident Teaching Artist] honestly was the best and I loved having her as our dance teacher. I learned about different dance techniques and how an actual dance class works...my favorite memory was making a dance that was inspired by our poems.”

“Times of crisis summon our best instinct to serve one another. ArtistYear awakens that instinct through arts education and reminds all Americans of our common humanity.”

“Hosting Resident Teaching Artists this year has been an invaluable experience here at Bartram. The Resident Teaching Artists were both so phenomenal, that the students have truly looked at the three of us as a teaching team. Our art community here has been so blessed to have two extra teachers who treat each class period as if it's the only one that day.”

“Every day we witness the power of the arts to transform children’s lives and are proud to partner with ArtistYear in extending that experience to more who cannot easily access this experience. The ArtistYear AmeriCorps Fellows joining us here bring to this community both the talent and the intention to make children’s lives better through art. ”

“The pandemic shocks to U.S. schooling have revealed two hard truths—inequitable access to high-quality online instruction for underserved students, and that most online instruction is not engaging, ignoring its young people's interests. Enter ArtistYear and its Resident Teaching Artists to explode with imaginative solutions to both failings. If you ever expected that young teaching artists might have the brightest ideas for transitioning to online learning—you don't know how right you were.”