Become a YA Roster Artist

Bring Your Art to Young Audiences

Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania promotes and develops programs that are:
Child-Centered  |  Measurably Effective  |  Outcomes-Driven

Join our lineup of diverse, talented artists and help us bring arts education to students in schools across New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.

Young Audiences’ Signature Core Services

Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania is one of more than 30 affiliates of Young Audiences, Inc. who work nationwide offering Signature Core Services, which include assemblies/performances, workshops/residencies, and professional development programs.

The Signature Core Services programs of Young Audiences contain the following Four Essential Elements:

  • Experience

    A signature program features a professional artist-led experience with the art form and gives participants the chance to engage directly with the work itself. These experiences are designed to inspire, engage, and spark curiosity in both the arts and learning.

  • Understand

    A signature program illuminates the art form through its cultural context, creative processes, and the role of the artist and artistic expression.

  • Create

    A signature program engages participants in the process of creating and empowers them to make artistic choices of their own.

  • Connect

     A signature program enables and encourages participants to link program content to personal experiences, other academic learning, and life skill development.

Our unique method of delivery empowers children to own their experiences through a gradual transfer of responsibility. 

We are interested in workshops, residencies, and performances that are of the highest artistic quality and that contain our Four Essential Elements.

Learn More about YA

Young Audiences teaching artists are qualified, professional artists who have been selected after a rigorous application and audition/interview process. They are selected for both the quality of their artistry and the educational content of their programs.

Teaching Artists are offered ongoing professional development opportunities at YA as part of the YAI national initiative and with our partners in the NJ and PA Arts Education field. In addition to their regular in-school programs for students, many of our artists also offer after-school programs for students and/or professional development workshops for teachers.

YA Teaching Artist Criteria

Young Audiences is looking for professional artists who demonstrate the following:

  • Artistic excellence in their chosen field.

  • Experience with in‐school programming.

  • Excellent communication skills, whether on stage or in the classroom.

  • A well‐planned arts program that connects to an age‐appropriate student audience.

  • A friendly, professional, and highly responsible demeanor with a willingness to respond quickly to all communications from Young Audiences.

  • A willingness to submit to yearly background checks, including an FBI fingerprint check, a child abuse check, and a criminal background check.

  • A willingness to attend Young Audiences artists information sessions.

Interested in Becoming a Young Audiences Roster Artist?

If you have questions or need support filling out our submitting the application, contact artistinfo@yanjep.org.

Young Audiences is an Equal Opportunity Employer.