The Craft in America Center seeks an Education Coordinator to manage its education program with local underserved K-12 students, Craft in Schools, and to help maintain and manage the small museum’s operations with a multitude of other projects.

Craft in America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the exploration, preservation, and celebration of the handmade and its impact on our nation’s cultural heritage. The Center is a museum and programmatic space with a library located on West Third Street in the heart of Los Angeles. The Center generates rotating contemporary craft exhibitions (physical & virtual), research, lectures, education outreach, publications, and hands-on art workshops. Craft in America produces a Peabody Award-winning and on-going PBS documentary

series.

The Education Coordinator is articulate, proactive, disciplined, outgoing, and organized. The Coordinator will have experience teaching students at various grade levels and an understanding of standards-based art education practices. Knowledge of contemporary crafts is a plus. An undergraduate degree in art history, museum studies, art education, studio art, or a related field is required. The Coordinator should have strong verbal and written communication skills and design abilities. The Center has a small team and the candidate must be hardworking, detail-oriented, strategic, excellent at multitasking, tech savvy, resourceful, and flexible. The nature of the position involves various additional aspects of museum operations including but not limited to: library management, collections management, grant writing and reporting, budgeting, public engagement, community building, and exhibition planning and implementation.