The Creative Advantage

👉 Ooh! Teaching Artists...ATTEND and spread the WORD! 👈

🎨 Teaching artists: let’s talk about BUSINESS.

Join TAT Lab for The Business of Being a Teaching Artist — an interactive online workshop designed to support artists and arts educators building sustainable, thoughtful teaching practices.

📅 Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 4:00–6:30 PM
💻 Online via Zoom
💲 Sliding scale: $0–$40
🌎 Open to teaching artists and arts educators across Washington State — all artistic disciplines welcome!

Register here: https://order.pnb.org/26-tat/teaching-artist

In this workshop, participants will:
✨ Develop foundational tools for marketing themselves as teaching artists
✨ Learn how to plan successful residencies with partner organizations
✨ Explore strategies for implementation and long-term success
✨ Reflect on culturally responsive and inclusive teaching spaces
✨ Gain practical resources about contracts, payments, and more

Whether you’re new to teaching artistry or looking to strengthen your professional practice, this workshop offers tools, reflection, and community connection.

🎬 Creative Economy Career Day Youth Advisory Team application closes this Sunday, June 7 at midnight. 🎨 https://forms.gle/xfvqsfNj4iF5d3uv9

👉 "I saw how the Seattle Public Schools Youth Arts Collective makes the art community stronger." https://artbeat.seattle.gov/2026/05/19/celebrating-the-pilot-year-of-the-seattle-public-schools-youth-arts-collective/

Watch a video compiled by the UNESCO Seattle City of Literature in celebration of Internation Day of Jazz, featuring the The Seattle Public Library, Bushwick Book Club, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle JazzEd, and 5th graders from Seattle Public Schools Highland Park Elementary perform original lyrics and vocals as interpretation of Samer Rashed's 'April in Jerusalem.' Seattle was one of 12 cities globally who generated videos. This entry was released on April 23 and the compilation was celebrated on International Day of Jazz, April 30. https://www.seattlecityoflit.org/2026-international-jazz-relay

✨ The Seattle Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, Seattle Office of Labor Standards + Seattle Labor Standards Advisory Commission are hosting a virtual Know Your Rights Training for workers on Monday, June 1, 2026, from 6pm to 8pm.
This training is designed to inform workers about how to ensure compliance with existing immigration and labor regulations and how to protect themselves in the workplace. ✨

👉 Final week to get your TeenTix applications in! 👈

⏰ LAST CALL! There’s less than one week left to apply for most TeenTix 2026–27 programs!

Apply by MAY 17 for:
🎨 Mentorship for Teen Artists of Color (M-TAC)
🌟 New Guard
🤝 Teen Connectors

🗞 Newsroom applications will remain open through August 2!

More programs information and application at the link in bio 🔗

⭐️ Hear! Hear! Check out these powerful youth arts leaders! ⭐️

It's Arts Education Month in Washington! Shout out to the Washington State Arts Commission Youth Arts Leaders who helped craft this proclamation!

🎉 May is Arts Education Month in Washington State! This ceremonial proclamation was composed by the 2025-2026 Washington Youth Arts Leadership cohort. Throughout May, we will share voices from these incredible young people about the impact of arts education on students across the state.

👉🏽Read the Proclamation: https://www.arts.wa.gov/fy26_artsedmonth_proclamation/
👉🏽Learn more about Washington Youth Arts Leadership: https://www.arts.wa.gov/youth-arts-leadership-program/

ID: Image of the Proclamation.

📣 Join Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab this Friday. It's FREE! Register: https://tinyurl.com/CoPMay2026

📣 This Friday - Join us for TAT Lab 'Office Hours' for teaching artists and educators!

📅 Friday, May 8, 3-4pm | Zoom | Free
Register: https://tinyurl.com/CoPMay2026

💪 In an ever-evolving arts education landscape, a community of practice and peer support can hold us accountable, inspire ideas and help us navigate our personal and collective arts education work. Bring your questions about learning goals and lesson planning, assessment, building community, working as a teaching artist, and more.

Communities of Practice sessions are free and open to all TAs and arts educators in WA State, regardless of prior TAT Lab experience. TAT Lab alumni welcome!