Teach at SoRA!
Our three-week seminar courses offer instructors and students the opportunity to explore in depth the relation of attention (broadly conceived) to any number of subjects, traditions, questions, and disciplines.
Here at SoRA, we take attention as our OBJECT of study, but we also take attention as our METHOD of study. We learn about attention, and we learn through attention. And as it turns out, through attention one can come to study just about everything. We have offered courses on lyric poetry, filmmaking, disaster preparedness, urban design, plants, rocks, and smoke, dance, carceral communications, dreams, and more. Attention runs through everything that people do, so if there’s a subject you would like to teach, chances are it connects to our mission!
What we are looking for:
We seek seminar courses that explore attentions’ relation to a single topic, tradition, or question in creative and experimental ways. Our seminars tend to include reading, discussion, creative work, and various modes of hands-on practice. These are NOT lecture courses; group participation is critical, and generosity is our byword. Prior teaching experience is welcome, although certainly not required.
Some key details:
Seminar courses comprise three 2.5-hour seminar sessions, occurring weekly on weeknights (i.e., three consecutive Wednesday evenings);
Class sizes range from 12 to 18 students; enrollment is sliding-scale, with three tuition-waiver scholarships per seminar;
Unless otherwise noted, courses convene at our Sanctuary Gallery in Dumbo;
Our total honorarium for instructors is $850, to be disbursed on a 1099 basis upon completion of the third seminar session.
Deadline for Summer 2025 proposals: March 26th
(we’ll let you know about the status of your proposal no later than April 9th)
