Employment Opportunities

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey continually works to enrich, amaze and inspire all who pass through our doors. The Art Center provides an opportunity for employees to deepen their love of art while contributing their skills and talents. Throughout the year a variety of opportunities may become available.

The Art Center provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees.

Painting/Drawing Instructor Job Posting

About the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
For over 90 years, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey has been dedicated to the vision of creating an inclusive and welcoming community where lives are transformed and enriched through the shared experience of art. This vision is fulfilled by the best in contemporary art exhibitions; a robust four-semester Studio School serving about 4,500 students per year; public programming that allows the public to interact with exhibiting artists; and in-community programs for seniors, at-risk youth and children, and adults with disabilities.

Painting/Drawing Instructor Description
The Studio School at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey seeks a painting instructor to teach an adult class focusing on landscape painting, with the ability to teach in oil and acrylic. The class would meet once a week, for 2.5 hours, on Mondays starting in our Fall Semester (mid-September 2025). The ideal candidate will have at least 1-2 years teaching experience in addition to a passion for painting. Instructors are responsible for developing the course content and curriculum for their classes.

How to Apply
To apply, please send a completed new instructor form, VACNJ class proposal form, and resume to proposals@artcenternj.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Qualified applicants will be selected to schedule an interview. No phone calls please.

ART THERAPIST
NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services
LOCATION: Highland Park, NJ

NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services serves formerly incarcerated individuals as they re-enter their communities. Teams of trained volunteer Navigators help Participants navigate the various pillars of successful re-entry into society: finding gainful employment and housing, pursuing personal development including counseling or drug/alcohol treatment, and regaining the trust of others through communication and accountability. The Visual Arts Center of NJ has partnered with NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services to pilot an Arts & Healing Therapy program intended to help formerly incarcerated individuals form a healthy sense of self/identity, establish healthy coping skills, offer emotional support, secure skills of effective non-verbal form of effective communication. We are looking for a dedicated art therapist to work with us in Highland Park, NJ and positively impact the lives of formerly incarcerated individuals.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Art Therapist explores client’s ability to express themselves through art and/or creative expression. The Art Therapist participates as a member of the care team in planning, providing, and evaluating creative art therapy for formerly incarcerated individuals to enhance the delivery of quality care. The Art Therapist assesses, develops and plans one-on-one creative art therapy activities for clients appropriate to the multidisciplinary plan of care. The Therapist plans activities at the client’s level of functioning and evaluates and documents the client’s response to the program. The Therapist integrates activities as part of the plan of care and collaborates with other members of the care team to enhance creative arts activities. This position delivers care in a prompt and professional manner, always maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and respect. The Therapist works as part of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support departmental objectives. The Therapist provides quality customer service, participates in performance improvement efforts and assumes responsibility for professional growth and development. Therapist will join as an independent contractor.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Facilitate creative art therapy for all interested clients
  • Ability to process creative works with clients, when appropriate, through use of psychodynamic theories
  • Organize potential client art exhibits in-house and at the graduation/celebration ceremony when appropriate and with the agreement of the participants
  • Designs individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner when available.
  • Maintains inventory of art supplies as well as order site appropriate materials.
  • Coordinate with Program Director to address client specific issues that have surfaced during art therapy sessions.
  • Maintain an attendance record and sign the appropriate agreements
  • Provide monthly report to on/offsite supervisor
  • Assists in special projects as required/requested
  • Supports the goals, objectives and mission statement set forth by the Board of Directors and the administration of the facility
  • Maintain and institute all infection control protocols
  • Must possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
  • Must be comfortable working independently
  • Must attain supervision off site/independently
  • Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, required ·
  • Prior experience relevant to the area of clinical practice preferred
  • Minimum of two years’ experience working with currently or formerly incarcerated populations

Job Type:

  • Contract Duration: Three, one-hour long sessions of art therapy each week for 12 weeks
  • Salary: $65/hr
  • Education: Master’s degree from an Accredited Institution as per the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) — REQUIRED

License:

  • Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and/or working toward hours to attain accreditation (ATR-BC) — REQUIRED
  • Work authorization: United States (Required)

Creative Arts Therapist
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Visual Arts Center of NJ
Location: Veteran’s Haven North 200 Sanatorium Rd Suite 101, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826
When: Twice a week (days are flexible); 90 minutes each session

POSITION SUMMARY

  • The Art Therapist enlists and explores client’s ability to express themselves through art.
  • The Creative Arts Therapist participates as a member of the care team in planning, providing, and evaluating creative art therapy for veterans to enhance the delivery of quality care.
  • The Creative Arts Therapist assesses, develops and plans creative arts therapy activities for patients appropriate to the multidisciplinary plan of care. The Therapist plans activities at the patient’s level of functioning and evaluates and documents the patient’s response to the program. The Therapist integrates activities as part of the plan of care and collaborates with other members of the care team to enhance creative arts activities.
  • This position delivers care in a prompt and professional manner, always maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and respect. The Therapist works as part of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support departmental objectives. The Therapist provides quality customer service, participates in performance improvement efforts and assumes responsibility for professional growth and development. Therapist will join as an independent contractor.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Facilitate creative arts therapy groups for all interested clients
  • Ability to process creative works with clients, when appropriate, through use of psychodynamic theories
  • Constructs evidence-based interventions for clients
  • Organize potential client art exhibits in-house and at the graduation/celebration ceremony when appropriate and with the agreement of the participants
  • Requisition and submit orders to the Coordinator of Therapeutic Recreation or LCSW
  • Designs individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner when available (site dependent).
  • Maintains inventory of art supplies as well as order
  • Coordinate with Recreation Therapist/LCSW to address issues through art therapy
  • Provide documentation in client’s charts
  • Provide monthly report to supervisor
  • Assists in special projects as required
  • Supports the goals, objectives and mission statement set forth by the Board of Directors and the administration of the facility
  • Maintain and institute all infection control protocols
  • Must possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
  • Must be comfortable working independently
  • Must attain supervision off site/independently

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, required
  • Prior experience relevant to the area of clinical practice preferred
  • Minimum of two years’ experience working with substance abuse and/or geriatric populations

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $65-$70/hr

Education:

  • Master’s degree from an Accredited Institution as per the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) — REQUIRED

License:

  • Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and/or working toward hours to attain accreditation (ATR-BC) — REQUIRED
  • NJ LPAT (Licensed Professional Art Therapist) Licensure or provisional license — REQUIRED

Work authorization:

  • United States (Required)

Creative Arts Therapist
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Visual Arts Center of NJ
Location: Veteran’s Haven South 301 Spring Garden Rd, Hammonton, NJ 08037
When: Wednesdays, 1–3 PM  

POSITION SUMMARY

  • The Art Therapist enlists and explores client’s ability to express themselves through art.
  • The Creative Arts Therapist participates as a member of the care team in planning, providing, and evaluating creative art therapy for veterans to enhance the delivery of quality care.
  • The Creative Arts Therapist assesses, develops and plans creative arts therapy activities for patients appropriate to the multidisciplinary plan of care. The Therapist plans activities at the patient’s level of functioning and evaluates and documents the patient’s response to the program. The Therapist integrates activities as part of the plan of care and collaborates with other members of the care team to enhance creative arts activities.
  • This position delivers care in a prompt and professional manner, always maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and respect. The Therapist works as part of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support departmental objectives. The Therapist provides quality customer service, participates in performance improvement efforts and assumes responsibility for professional growth and development. Therapist will join as an independent contractor.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Facilitate creative arts therapy groups for all interested clients
  • Ability to process creative works with clients, when appropriate, through use of psychodynamic theories
  • Constructs evidence-based interventions for clients
  • Organize potential client art exhibits in-house and at the graduation/celebration ceremony when appropriate and with the agreement of the participants
  • Requisition and submit orders to the Coordinator of Therapeutic Recreation or LCSW
  • Designs individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner when available (site dependent).
  • Maintains inventory of art supplies as well as order
  • Coordinate with Recreation Therapist/LCSW to address issues through art therapy
  • Provide documentation in client’s charts
  • Provide monthly report to supervisor
  • Assists in special projects as required
  • Supports the goals, objectives and mission statement set forth by the Board of Directors and the administration of the facility
  • Maintain and institute all infection control protocols
  • Must possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
  • Must be comfortable working independently
  • Must attain supervision off site/independently

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, required
  • Prior experience relevant to the area of clinical practice preferred
  • Minimum of two years’ experience working with substance abuse and/or geriatric populations

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $65-$70/hr

Education:

  • Master’s degree from an Accredited Institution as per the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) — REQUIRED

License:

  • Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and/or working toward hours to attain accreditation (ATR-BC) — REQUIRED
  • NJ LPAT (Licensed Professional Art Therapist) Licensure or provisional license — REQUIRED

Work authorization:

  • United States (Required)

Summer Art Camp Manager
The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is seeking a Summer Art Camp Manager for June 16–August 22, 2025. This position is responsible for facilitating the daily operations of our Summer Art Camp, which serves approximately 100 children ages 5–18 each week. Some tasks may include: overseeing counselors, volunteers, interns, and teachers; assigning campers to classrooms; organizing camper drop off and pickup; maintaining daily camper attendance; and other daily tasks as needed. Frequent physical work is required, lifting up to 50 pounds. Hours are 7:45 AM–3:45 PM daily.

 Responsibilities

  • Oversee schedule of day-to-day activities
  • Supervising preparation and distribution of art materials for daily projects
  • Monitoring inventory of art supplies throughout camp and reordering as needed
  • Administrative set up for each week (dividing campers into classroom groups based on age; creating attendance sheets, counselor, volunteer, and instructor sign in sheets; organizing lesson schedules, etc.)
  • Confirming camp staff work schedules and assignments
  • Supervise camp interns, counselors, and volunteers
  • Plan activities and order supplies needed for before/after care program
  • Run weekly counselor meeting on Monday mornings
  • Communicate daily with camp staff via the Slack app
  • Oversee drop-off and pick-up of campers
  • Oversee outside lunch and snack periods
  • Manage inquiries from parents/caregivers and answer questions about camp
  • Troubleshooting issues as they arise in conjunction with the Studio School Manager and Studio School Director
  • Resolving any interpersonal issues between staff or campers, with assistance from the Studio School Manager and Studio School Director
  • Perform other duties as requested by the Studio School Director

 Qualifications

  • Art experience (studio art experience or familiarity with art supplies)
  • Experience working with kids and teens
  • Strong customer relations, written, and verbal communications skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative management style
  • Ability to work independently with excellent time management skills
  • Excellent computer skills and proficiency with Google docs, Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook, Slack
  • Excels at working in a fast paced, non-profit, team-oriented environment
  • Supervisory experience, particularly with high school and collage aged students
  • Frequent physical work is required for lifting and handling of supplies

Physical and Mental Demands
This position frequently requires mental demands of planning/organizing, making decisions, and problem solving, and supervising. This position requires the ability to frequently stand, sit, walk, squat, and climb stairs. These positions occasionally require the ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.

Work Environment
This position is frequently indoors in a studio environment and are occasionally exposed to potentially hazardous art materials. This position will work both indoors and outdoors in summer weather.

Pay Rate
This is a seasonal, hourly position. The pay rate is $22/hour.

How to Apply
As part of VACNJ’s commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion, we aim to amplify traditionally underrepresented voices. Although not required in the application, VACNJ encourages applicants to share their experience with DEAI initiatives. VACNJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Review of applications will begin immediately until position is filled. To apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to cdemski@artcenternj.org. Those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please. All hires are required to successfully pass a background check and complete training as part of their onboarding.

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