Rachelle Hill

• Plan, develop, and facilitate instructional classes, workshops, and drop-in activities.
• Manage, plan, and facilitate full-day art and nature-based camps, including instructional staff, contract instructors, recreation leaders, RIT, and interns.
• Plan, schedule, and facilitate field trip visits for classes and camps to museums, parks, and gardens.
• Plans and supports community partnerships with Chicago-based artists, non-profits, CPS, CPL, and local nature center staff.
• Grant Writing.
• Design, plan, and install the yearly art exhibition, coordinate food, music, and entertainment, and facilitate art-making activities for families, and community members.
• Plan and design activities for teen engagement events, job fairs, and girls' Day of Play.
• Conduct and manage the inventory of supplies, materials, tools, and equipment, as well as budget material costs and contract labor for events.
• Works with marketing to promote classes, events, and outreach opportunities.

• Collect and analyze data for program evaluation.
• Developed and managed the Community and Program Engagement Team.
• Create project plans for program development, establish timelines, maintain a budget of over $35,000, assign tasks to appropriate teams, and manage workflow throughout for the Community and Program Engagement team.
• Coordinate and manage all daytime programs and intergenerational workshops (10-15 a year), with a focus on nature-based art that culminates in special public events.
• Plan, develop, and facilitate events for the public that further community partnerships and drive enrollment in regular programming.
• Manage and provide training, and curriculum development for ten teaching artists for Community and Program Engagement programs, while implementing the Creative Youth Development framework.
• Create systems to support community learning and access needs for youth with disabilities.
• Mentor and manage youth interns and youth teaching artists.
• Track programming data, manage evaluation, and measure impact to assist with fundraising initiatives and overall programmatic impact.
• Create recruitment and promotional materials to support and grow interest in programs and events.
  
• Develop policies to proactively identify social and emotional needs of program participants with an anti-racist lens.

• Continued all responsibilities of the Coordinator of Program role in addition managed all program events and activities of Lab program.
• Planned and curated Lab’s public exhibition event with youth, teaching artists, and staff.
• Led the installation of Lab’s culminating exhibition and its related activities with youth, staff and teaching artists.
• Partnered with openlands & ragdale to lead writing retreat for youth with additional nature- based learning opportunities.
• Created qualitative and quanatative data methods that measured youth engagement and impact to ensure further funding and continuation of programs.
• Developed recruitment, promotional strategies, and materials to support and grow interest and enrollment.
• Hired youth from lab program to plan, design and facilitate exhibition celebration (exhibition show cards, community zine, t-shirt design and art-making activity).
• Hired & mentored Lab alumni from past years program to design public facing assets for exhibition (signage, social media & newsletters).
• Acted as a teaching artist in ceramic, print-making and fiber-art studios.

• Developed and adjusted course syllabus according to curriculum and university guidelines.
• Implemented student centered approaches to meet the needs of a diverse student population.
• Sourced appropriate course materials to support a variety of student learning needs and styles and deliver content in relevant, distinctive ways that are accessible and engaging.
• Facilitated group critiques, complemented with individual meetings to discuss work, encourage dialogue and promote an exchange of ideas in a group setting.
• Planned projects with other university partners for class projects that culminated in a class exchange of art & ideas.
• Invited practicing Chicago artists to the classroom for artist talks, demos and skill-sharing.

• Designed and implemented the administration and operation of Studio Programs.
• Monitored and budgeted program expenses.
• Developed, revised and maintained studio use guidelines to train and support staff, teaching artists, and young people to understand basic maintenance and use of studios.
• Managed field trips, visiting artists, and transportation for studio programs courses.
• Supervised, trained and mentored alumni apprentices to provide them with further engagement and enrich programs.
• Collected, organized and documented student work in preparation for exhibition installation.
• Created curriculum for outreach workshops with alumni, emerging teaching artists, staff and community partners.
• Facilitated outreach workshops with the coordinator of outreach.
• Built partnership with Chicago Lights urban farm to facilitate nature based arts programming for youth in Marwen Summer courses.
• Mentored youth interns, alumni apprentices and youth teaching artists.
• Managed ceramic & print-making studios; fired all student artwork from courses, recycled clay with pug mill, created work systems in all studios and trained others to properly use tools and machinery.

• Managed and facilitated activities of the organization with consensus from membership, assembled a timeline for these activities, assigned committees and delegated tasks in service of these activities.
• Chaired Board meetings and communicated actions of the board, upcoming events, and opportunities to membership on a monthly basis in addition to coordinating content for the quarterly newsletter and updating calendar of meetings on website and social media.
• Curated CPG's schedule of events, built and formed partnerships with Chicago-based artists to develop and manage public programming for members and public audiences.
• Developed, implemented and managed CPG's first printmaking publishing program, partnering BIPOC artists with print shops/printers across Chicago.
• Implemented and managed fundraising initiatives and grant writing strategies to fund support for operation costs.
• Partnered with two artists to create and produce printed editions for the CPG “Raise It Up” fundraiser with the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood which raised over $30,000.

• Designed and facilitated workshops with outreach programs in book-binding, street-art wheat-pasting, screen-printing, mosaics, ceramics, and block-printing methods with Chicago Public Schools.
• Facilitated workshops with after-school programs (The Boys and Girls Club, After School Matters, and Mercy Housing).
• Developed curriculum for a series of block-printing "activist patches" workshops with artist Atlan Arceo Witzl at Firebird Community Arts with Project Fire youth.
• Supported fundraising efforts and initiatives for Firebird Community Arts programs.

• Built and strengthened positive relationships with youth, studio facilitator, staff and community partners.
• Planned and partnered with museums, galleries and Chicago based artists for learning initiatives outside the classroom.
• Created lesson plans in accordance with CPS school-wide curriculum standards including CYD practices and SEL frameworks.
• Participated in workshops, training and professional development to improve educational and facilitation skills rooted in SEL practices and anti-racist strategies.
• Planned and implemented course curriculum using a variety of teaching strategies to meet the diverse needs of youth in the classroom.
• Built strong connections with youth in the classroom through reciprocal mentorship, trust, partnership and joy.
• Implemented assessment tools to evaluate student progress and learning in the classroom on a weekly and monthly basis.

2018

• Instructor, Lillstreet Art Center, Screen-print, Chicago, IL
• Instructor, Evanston Art Center, screen-print with ink and dyes on fiber, Introduction to printmaking, shibori & indigo, Evanston, IL
• Instructor, Evanston Art Center (Evanston Twp. High School social justice posters) funded by a grant from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Evanston, IL
• Instructor of Record, Introduction to Printmaking, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

2017

• Instructor of Record, Introduction to Printmaking, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• Instructor of Record, Foundations 2-D, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• Assistant Instructor, Marwen, ceramics, Chicago, IL

2016

• Instructor of Record, Foundations Drawing I, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• Assistant Instructor, Marwen, photography, screen-printing, ceramics, Chicago, IL
• Instructor, Art Reach at Lillstreet, printmaking & ceramics, Chicago, IL
• Instructor, Expressions Graphics, screen-printing with ink & dyes on fiber, Oak Park, IL

2015

• Assistant Instructor, Marwen, ceramics, Chicago IL
• Instructor, Art Reach at Lillstreet, ceramics, book binding, Chicago, IL
• Instructor, Beverly Art Center, drawing, book binding, comic book, printmaking, Chicago, IL