Green Street Banners Project: Textile Artist Team
JOB DESCRIPTION
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Textile Artist
Sessional freelance
£18 per hour
Arts Development Officer
Overview
Green Street Banners is a project celebrating the Green Street Neighbourhood area of Newham. We have
been commissioned to create a set of 16 textile banners that will be paraded in a carnival along Green
Street and installed at Queens Market as part of a local festival. We are working with Lead Artist, Sarah
Pimenta, who is researching and designing the banners, along with the methodology for public
participation in their making.
You will be assigned to one of five community groups to deliver a set of participatory screen-printing and
textile workshops where your participants will make textiles banners to a pre-existing designs. You must
first attend a training session with the Lead Artist, who will disseminate the specific methodology for this
project, as well as be inducted to Rosetta Art Centre as a freelance artist.
You will provide professional leadership and management in all workshops, supporting the participants to
achieve the required outcomes. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in a secondary textiles
activity so that you will only work with a manageable number of participants directly on the banners at any
one time.
Workshop Delivery
 Attend a training session to learn and practice the workshop methodology.
 Prepare for sessions and set up in advance of the workshop start time.
 Follow the methodology for creating the banners with your participants and encouraging them to
engage in the secondary activity as well.
 Ensure the consistently high quality of banners is maintained.
 Liaise with site staff and line manager regarding any concerns.
 Clear up at the end of workshop sessions and clean equipment ready for the next session.
 Report on progress to line manager after each workshop.
Professional Support
 To maintain a disciplined environment within the workshop space.
 To liaise with the site staff and line manager over participants causing concern.
Communications
 To attend appropriate meetings where relevant and to provide feedback to team members.
Whilst every effort has been made to set down the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each
individual task to be undertaken may not be identified. This job description is current at the date shown,
but, in consultation with you, may be changed to reflect or anticipate changes in the job.
The post holder will be expected to work flexibly and carry out all duties in compliance with Rosetta Art
Centre policies.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
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E = Essential
Qualifications:
 Degree or equivalent plus teaching qualification
 Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience:
 Evidence of confident screen printing practice
 Evidence of excellent art workshop delivery and behaviour management skills
 Successful experience of delivering art workshops in London
 Successful experience of delivering art workshops across the age and ability range
 Excellent sewing skills and experience of using overlockers
Management and leadership skills:
 The ability to motivate and lead people
 The ability to build good relationships with all participants
Professional knowledge and understanding:
 Evidence of excellent knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm for the subject and the
capacity to engage participants in the learning of the subject
Skills, abilities and personal qualities:
 Team player with energy, enthusiasm and perseverance
 Very good organisational skills, encouraging positive collaborative working practices
 Good communication skills, showing sensitivity and strength
 Evidence of a commitment to equal opportunities policies and an understanding of their
effective operation within community workshops
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Please email your completed application form to david@rosettaarts.org no later than Monday 8th June at
10am. You must be available for the training session on Thursday 18th June at Rosetta Art Centre. The dates
of the workshops will be allocated at the training session but will run across June/July/August. Some groups
will have a weekly 2hr session for 5 weeks where others may be two intensive days.