We are seeking happy knowledgeable employees and volunteers!
Join our team and help make Clay Art Space the best Art Center in Anchorage! We offer flexible, part-time positions - perfect for students, past business owners, people who have a passion for art and business combined, and people wanting to support the arts, or looking for supplementary activities in an art field. If you are interested in working with us, please email your resume or drop by the studio and fill in an application on the spot. We are a workplace without smokers, furry pets, and perfumes (due to allergies). We are vaccinated and dress casually. Sometimes, face masks are required.
Pottery Store Inventory Specialist/Manager: Wholesale to Retail with Accounting:
A business minded person with an artistic or crafty flare and ceramics knowledge. Someone who is multi skilled in managing inventory from ordering, receiving, to displaying.
Tasks: QuickBooks bookkeeping, data entry, and Point of Sale setup, implementation and maintenance.
Skills needed: QuickBooks inventory management, invoicing, purchase ordering, ShopKeep POS implementation, Weebly website integration/mtce, inventory organization skills, detail oriented, managing store inventory, display setup, with an interest in running a pottery store. We will teach the right candidate who shows aptitude and is willing stick around for more than a year.
Physically: This job requires the ability to safely lift and carry 50 lbs of clay and other inventory items, 10-key, and accurate typing. We use PC and Android based devices. Put your entrepreneur business skills to work in a business for the arts.
Gallery Manager/Coordinator:
Bring your years of business experience, ideally from an arts environment, to our shop. This part-time position includes finding artists, contracting, communicating and coordinating with artists to display or hang their work monthly and hanging artwork in general. Could include teaching classes, and helping new artists prepare their work for display or hanging. Includes multiple art mediums from paintings to pottery. We also want to increase our consignment pottery base. This position handles some social media advertising, posting events to newspapers, taking pictures, creating flyers and other small business tasks as needed. Light cleaning and dusting as needed in the gallery. Assisting customers on an as-needed basis during open hours or events. Coordinate and host First Friday events. May also help out with Saturday night public events when they are scheduled. Requires an ability to climb up and down very tall ladders to hang artwork.
Art Teachers:
We are an educational art facility as well as a supplier and manufacture business. We seek artists who can share and teach art techniques to others of all ages. Help us develop and offer art classes of multiple mediums. However, we are not an uncontrolled messy artist studio. Clean up is required. Pre-thinking to minimize the cleanup process afterwards is very useful. Art materials are sometimes hazardous and education on safe handling is part of the process. Part-time, hourly wage, with commissions.
Studio Tech:
This position requires physical abilities that are best performed by a strong, energetic person. This position includes many job tasks, from janitorial to managing clay slop to assisting customers with PYOP activities. The ability to wheel-throw clay is needed to assist with events centered around the wheels. Wheel throwing and/or hand building at a professional level (but not production level) would be great. Teaching art classes to customers is a bonus. We have a wide variety of tasks that need to be done. This position is great for someone with lots of energy. It will keep you moving all day long.
If you are able to:
Join our team and help make Clay Art Space the best Art Center in Anchorage! We offer flexible, part-time positions - perfect for students, past business owners, people who have a passion for art and business combined, and people wanting to support the arts, or looking for supplementary activities in an art field. If you are interested in working with us, please email your resume or drop by the studio and fill in an application on the spot. We are a workplace without smokers, furry pets, and perfumes (due to allergies). We are vaccinated and dress casually. Sometimes, face masks are required.
Pottery Store Inventory Specialist/Manager: Wholesale to Retail with Accounting:
A business minded person with an artistic or crafty flare and ceramics knowledge. Someone who is multi skilled in managing inventory from ordering, receiving, to displaying.
Tasks: QuickBooks bookkeeping, data entry, and Point of Sale setup, implementation and maintenance.
Skills needed: QuickBooks inventory management, invoicing, purchase ordering, ShopKeep POS implementation, Weebly website integration/mtce, inventory organization skills, detail oriented, managing store inventory, display setup, with an interest in running a pottery store. We will teach the right candidate who shows aptitude and is willing stick around for more than a year.
Physically: This job requires the ability to safely lift and carry 50 lbs of clay and other inventory items, 10-key, and accurate typing. We use PC and Android based devices. Put your entrepreneur business skills to work in a business for the arts.
Gallery Manager/Coordinator:
Bring your years of business experience, ideally from an arts environment, to our shop. This part-time position includes finding artists, contracting, communicating and coordinating with artists to display or hang their work monthly and hanging artwork in general. Could include teaching classes, and helping new artists prepare their work for display or hanging. Includes multiple art mediums from paintings to pottery. We also want to increase our consignment pottery base. This position handles some social media advertising, posting events to newspapers, taking pictures, creating flyers and other small business tasks as needed. Light cleaning and dusting as needed in the gallery. Assisting customers on an as-needed basis during open hours or events. Coordinate and host First Friday events. May also help out with Saturday night public events when they are scheduled. Requires an ability to climb up and down very tall ladders to hang artwork.
Art Teachers:
We are an educational art facility as well as a supplier and manufacture business. We seek artists who can share and teach art techniques to others of all ages. Help us develop and offer art classes of multiple mediums. However, we are not an uncontrolled messy artist studio. Clean up is required. Pre-thinking to minimize the cleanup process afterwards is very useful. Art materials are sometimes hazardous and education on safe handling is part of the process. Part-time, hourly wage, with commissions.
Studio Tech:
This position requires physical abilities that are best performed by a strong, energetic person. This position includes many job tasks, from janitorial to managing clay slop to assisting customers with PYOP activities. The ability to wheel-throw clay is needed to assist with events centered around the wheels. Wheel throwing and/or hand building at a professional level (but not production level) would be great. Teaching art classes to customers is a bonus. We have a wide variety of tasks that need to be done. This position is great for someone with lots of energy. It will keep you moving all day long.
If you are able to:
- Lift and carry 50 lbs correctly (clay is heavy!)
- Clean up after others
- Dust, mop and clean the studio, gallery, and everywhere else. Also to clean and sanitize the bathrooms.
- Pug and recycle clay slop (we will train you in our methods)
- Assist with classes and/or events in the studio and offsite
- Set up and help Paint-Your-Own-Pottery customers and clean up afterwards
- Provide information to customers related to pottery
- Mentor other studio users to follow the studio rules
- Ring up sales. This requires cashier & customer service skills; good handwriting; and the ability to record monetary transactions accurately and provide correct change or accept credit cards
- Assist with posting to social media outlets
- Organize stuff and climb tall ladders
- And whatever else there is to do and get done around the studio
July 2021 Currently Seeking:
Pottery Store Inventory Specialist/Manager
Studio Tech
Gallery Manager/Coordinator
We are seeking long-term team members and employees in our art focused business. The successful candidates are business minded with an artistic or crafty flare and ceramics knowledge. We’re looking for several multi skilled people for warehouse inventory, cleaning up after customers, daily COVID-cleaning, Paint Your Own Pot hosting, QuickBooks bookkeeper and Point of Sale setup experience. Weebly Website skills, customer service & cashier experience also desired. Store inventory display setup experience helpful. Requires ability to lift 50 lbs or more safely. Interest in running a pottery store desired. Job may require more tasks than listed. Android and Windows PC experience is a plus.
Skills and abilities:
Inventory Management
Cashier & Customer Service
Accounting
Able to lift and carry 50 lbs. repeatedly
Softwares:
QuickBooks
Shopkeep
Weebly Website Builder
Devices:
Android Phones/Tablets
Windows PC/Laptop
Desired personal skills:
Accountability
Verbal communication
Honesty
Strong work ethics
Creativity
Willingness to learn
Teamwork
Attention to detail
Organization
Reliability
Learn, follow and enforce rules
Must be able to pass a Background Check and obtain an Interested Persons report from the AK State Troopers office in Anchorage. Must be drug-free and a non-smoker/vapor with reliable transportation for Alaskan winters.
Part time hours, 6 days a week. Afternoons to evenings preferred.
Starting hourly wage: $10.50/hour.
To apply, download the pdf file below. Print it out (2 pages), fill it in by hand. Using a printer connected to a computer, scan the pages to a file. Send as an attachment in an email to us.
Pottery Store Inventory Specialist/Manager
Studio Tech
Gallery Manager/Coordinator
We are seeking long-term team members and employees in our art focused business. The successful candidates are business minded with an artistic or crafty flare and ceramics knowledge. We’re looking for several multi skilled people for warehouse inventory, cleaning up after customers, daily COVID-cleaning, Paint Your Own Pot hosting, QuickBooks bookkeeper and Point of Sale setup experience. Weebly Website skills, customer service & cashier experience also desired. Store inventory display setup experience helpful. Requires ability to lift 50 lbs or more safely. Interest in running a pottery store desired. Job may require more tasks than listed. Android and Windows PC experience is a plus.
Skills and abilities:
Inventory Management
Cashier & Customer Service
Accounting
Able to lift and carry 50 lbs. repeatedly
Softwares:
QuickBooks
Shopkeep
Weebly Website Builder
Devices:
Android Phones/Tablets
Windows PC/Laptop
Desired personal skills:
Accountability
Verbal communication
Honesty
Strong work ethics
Creativity
Willingness to learn
Teamwork
Attention to detail
Organization
Reliability
Learn, follow and enforce rules
Must be able to pass a Background Check and obtain an Interested Persons report from the AK State Troopers office in Anchorage. Must be drug-free and a non-smoker/vapor with reliable transportation for Alaskan winters.
Part time hours, 6 days a week. Afternoons to evenings preferred.
Starting hourly wage: $10.50/hour.
To apply, download the pdf file below. Print it out (2 pages), fill it in by hand. Using a printer connected to a computer, scan the pages to a file. Send as an attachment in an email to us.
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