For 16 years, Path with Art has provided opportunities for arts engagement and community building for systems-impacted individuals, families, and communities. Referred by our 65+ social service partners, our participant artists are navigating recovery from issues such as intergenerational trauma, racism, homelessness, incarceration, and gender-based violence as well as mental and behavioral health concerns and substance use disorders.

Informed by long-standing and rapidly evolving academic evidence base regarding the efficacy of arts and cultural interventions in treating trauma and cultivating well being individually and collectively,  Path with Art  has honed our practices through working and learning with our participant artists and social service partners. This learning has informed our training for our roster of 55 teaching artists annually and 34 cultural partners. As a long-time leader in this field, we have grown tenfold in the last ten years.  Demand is high, and our expertise in therapeutic arts engagement is being sought out nationally and internationally.

Hence, Path with Art is in a moment of expansion. In addition to delivering arts programs, we are now building our capacity for facilitating training, research partnerships and political advocacy in the rapidly emerging field of Arts and Health. 

This new field placement will support the expansion of Path with Art's new Training and Research arm known as artREMEDY.

The artREMEDY team…

-tracks the growing body of research regarding Arts and Health and Arts on Prescription

-manages relationships and processes with our research partner, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Arts & Mind Lab

-develops training materials grounded in both the growing evidence base regarding art and health and Path with Art’s 16 years of experience delivering therapeutic arts programming to systems-impacted individuals, families and communities.

-delivers training with the intention of nurturing an institutional and organizational ecosystem grounded in a culture of care at the intersection of arts and health.

Here is a description of the pilot training in this series. 

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The Training and Research Specialist will serve in several capacities:

-Reviewing new research on arts and health
-Conducting background research for collaborative opportunities
-Conducting ongoing environmental scans of the field as it evolves nationally and internationally
-Serving as point of contact and coordinator for collaboration with various institutional and organizational partners in diverse arenas- social services, education, the arts
-Assisting in development of training materials such as resource guides
-Managing enrollment processes for trainings
-Assisting with program evaluation of trainings

The Training and Research Specialist will serve in several capacities:

-Reviewing new research on arts and health
-Conducting background research for collaborative opportunities
-Conducting ongoing environmental scans of the field as it evolves nationally and internationally
-Serving as point of contact and coordinator for collaboration with various institutional and organizational partners
-Assisting in development of training materials such as resource guides
- Managing enrollment processes for trainings
-Assisting with program evaluation of trainings

Practicum students are also welcome to participate in PwA arts program offerings as volunteer creative mentors and more!

The Path with Art artHOME is beautiful and sits across the street from Seattle Center in the South Queen Anne neighborhood. There is a strong sense of community among the staff. We host many events featuring the art work of our participant artists, jam sessions, open studios, performances and more in addition to our course offerings. If you are seeking a practicum site engaged in "healing-centered" work, this is the place!

Strong written and verbal communication skills
An understanding of trauma-informed and healing centered approaches to care
A passion for arts and cultural approaches to healing trauma and building healthy communities, arts and health
An enthusiasm for learning the ropes of organizational practice and capacity building, train the trainer models

English.

Please send a cover letter and resumé to:

Carrie Lanza, PhD, LSWAIC
Director of Training + Research
Path with Art
carrie@pathwithart.org
206-351-3182

Deadline: August 26