We are hiring!
Join our team and help make Clay Art Space the best Art Center in Anchorage! We offer flexible, part-time positions - perfect for students, Moms, past business owners, people who have a passion for art and business combined, ex-McDonald employees, and people wanting to support the arts, or looking for supplementary income. If you are interested in working with us, please email your resume or drop by the studio and pick up an application.
Gallery Manager/Coordinator: Bring your years of business experience, ideally in an arts or crafts environment, to our shop. This position can include finding artists, contracting, communicating and coordinating with artists to hang their work monthly and hanging artwork in general, teach classes, arranging pottery and other retail inventory. Wheel throwing and/or hand building at a professional level would be great. Teaching art classes to customers is a bonus. This position also handles social media advertising, posting events to newspapers, taking pictures, creating flyers and other small business tasks as needed. Light cleaning and dusting is required in the gallery daily. Assisting customers with Paint Your Pot activities on an as-needed basis is also necessary during working hours. Help continue the mission.
Studio Tech: This position requires physical abilities that are best performed by a strong energetic person. The ability to wheel-throw clay is a needed to assist with events centered around the wheels. We have a wide variety of tasks that need to be done. Please be willing and 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, Moms, past business owners, people who have a passion for art and business combined, ex-McDonald employees, and people wanting to support the arts, or looking for supplementary income. If you are interested in working with us, please email your resume or drop by the studio and pick up an application.
Gallery Manager/Coordinator: Bring your years of business experience, ideally in an arts or crafts environment, to our shop. This position can include finding artists, contracting, communicating and coordinating with artists to hang their work monthly and hanging artwork in general, teach classes, arranging pottery and other retail inventory. Wheel throwing and/or hand building at a professional level would be great. Teaching art classes to customers is a bonus. This position also handles social media advertising, posting events to newspapers, taking pictures, creating flyers and other small business tasks as needed. Light cleaning and dusting is required in the gallery daily. Assisting customers with Paint Your Pot activities on an as-needed basis is also necessary during working hours. Help continue the mission.
Studio Tech: This position requires physical abilities that are best performed by a strong energetic person. The ability to wheel-throw clay is a needed to assist with events centered around the wheels. We have a wide variety of tasks that need to be done. Please be willing and able to:
- Lift and carry 50 lbs correctly (clay is heavy!)
- Clean up after others
- Dust and mop the studio, bathrooms, gallery, and everywhere else
- 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
- 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.)
- Post to social media outlets as granted by the studio
- Organize stuff
- Ring up customer with good handwriting and provide correct change or accept credit cards
- And whatever else there is to do and get done around the studio