Teaching Assistant Fellowship 2025-2026
Together, Learning through Arts Narrative and Discourse (LAND) and the Public Arts Trust of India (PATI) are actively working with Museums and Schools to facilitate more equitable access to arts and culture for Jodhpur’s communities.
Over the last year, our collaborative Creative Arts Education Programme has actively collaborated with school educators working in Schools within the Walled City of Jodhpur to develop and trial a new creative arts curriculum and learning methodologies.
We are now recruiting for a number of Teaching Assistant Fellows to join our cohort of enthusiastic and forward-thinking individuals capable of taking this innovative and inclusive programme into its next phase.
“The TA Fellowship was a turning point for me. It taught me that artful engagement can transform both learners and educators from within. It gave me the space to slow down, observe, and research. It taught me to listen deeply, imagine freely, and let art shape the way we learn and grow.”
-Yukti, TA fellow ‘2024-2025’
What is a Teaching Assistant Fellowship?
LAND x PATI Teaching Assistant Fellowship is an experiential learning module for university learners who wish to engage with creative pedagogy in a dedicated and career-driven manner.
Working closely with school educators and learners while thinking about classroom spaces and museums in unconventional ways, Fellows will engage in 12 months of on-site experience, learning about contemporary arts and creative pedagogy to understand its application in varied contexts. They will learn alongside local and global educators as well as creative practitioners in exploring innovative learning methodologies through research and action. Past guest contributors have included Dr Penny Hay, Shilpa Gupta, Anurupa Roy, Ravi Aggarwal, Harshvardhan Singh, Rana Begum and Emily Dowdeswell
At the heart of the fellowship is a deep faith in the transformative potential of the creative arts which can be harnessed through a community based collaborative effort. Each Fellow will become a significant part of the network that the Creative Arts Education Programme brings together to sustain collaborative knowledge-seeking practices.
The 2025-26 Teaching Fellowship Commences in November 2025.
Selected Fellows will be asked to commit to the full 12 month programme.
A number of Teaching Fellows will also have the opportunity to extend for an additional 12 months for further learning and development.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midnight, Wednesday 16th August, 2025
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midnight, Wednesday 16th August, 2025
What Will You Gain from the Programme?
The Fellowship will commence with an intensive orientation programme, leading to more profound research into design thinking, creativity—dignity, and community-led projects through the lenses of museums, ecology, and folklore.
The programme will then move into on-site, practical work experience, allowing you to expand your skills and understanding, by:
Engaging with local and global educators and practitioners, exchanging knowledge and best practices with experts in their fields.
Contributing to a community-based collaborative network to transform creative arts education.
Developing and designing new curriculum modules tailored to contemporary art pedagogy and implementing these practical experience working in classroom and art exhibition settings.
Assisting with various art projects, providing support and innovative ideas while contributing to building a community-based collaborative network to transform creative arts education.
Collaborating with school educators to rethink and redesign classroom and museum spaces applying design thinking methodologies to enhance educational practices.
Enhanced ability to think creatively and apply design thinking methodologies.
Selected Teaching Fellows will be remunerated with a monthly stipend of 10,000/- upon monthly completion of milestones, active participation in group cohort learning sessions, and successful implementation of sessions in assigned schools.
How to Apply?
To apply, we ask that you complete our Teaching Assistant online application form (link below), answering all the required questions. When completing your application form:
Answer the questions honestly with experience-based responses.
Feel free to submit the form in either of the languages - Hindi or English.
If you prefer, you can also submit the responses as audio-videos, sketch or scribble drafts or in any other way you find best expresses your thoughts.
There are no wrong answers!
Recruitment Timeline:
Applications will be shortlisted by the 5th of September having the shortlisted candidates invited to interview a week after.
Following the interview process, the final list of selected fellows will be announced by the 15th of October, ahead of the 2025–26 Fellowship, which begins in November 2025.
Please note that selected fellows will be required to commit to the full 12-month programme, upon accepting their offer.
Access Needs or Additional Questions:
If you have access requirements that mean you need to make your application in another format or have remaining questions about the opportunity, contact:
Arun Sankar, Assistant Curator
Email: arun@publicartstrustofindia.org
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midnight, Wednesday 16th August, 2025
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midnight, Wednesday 16th August, 2025
About Us
Public Arts Trust of India
In India, where philanthropy, patronage, and state support for the arts is limited, Sana Rezwan founded PATI in 2022 to democratize arts and culture for all.
Based in the Indian state of Rajasthan (between Jaipur and Jodhpur), PATI’s initiatives foster a more holistic growth of arts and culture through artist residencies, commissioning, curating, education, and professional development programs, and community exchange, reinforcing creativity as an important part of everyday life regardless of a person’s association or generation. This work is achieved through innovative collaborations with like-minded local and global luxury brands, non-profit institutions, galleries and individuals who share PATI’s ambitions.
All PATI’s programmes provide free access foregrounding the notion that art belongs to everyone while maintaining a multi-layered approach to give the same gravitas to the work of emerging and non-artists as it does to those of an international standing.
LAND (Learning through Arts, Narrative and Discourse)
A pedagogical research lab dedicated to formulating Arts as the reimagined language of learning. We work towards cultivating creativity by designing alternative, process-oriented art projects through trans-disciplinary interventions in education and curation through an action-research methodology while engaging with individuals, institutions, and communities that support learning across different visual mediums and disciplines.
LAND aims to actualise a learning environment that thrives on garnering inquisitiveness and curiosity amongst learners where research-based art learning modules led by designers, artists, environmentalists, writers /poets, musicians, and art educators are integrated into curriculums in collaboration with various institutions. We are dedicated to developing a culture of seeing that engages sensitively and critically with the visuals that proliferate our everyday lives. Therefore, our objective is to become an indispensable part of the fabric of everyday learning and curate a rich bank of resources for collaborative change-making.