Title: Director of Artistic Producing

Reports to:Managing Director and Artistic Director

Tier:Director

Salary:$80,000- $100,000, depending on experience plus benefits (details below)

Job Type:Hybrid |Full Time Exempt (40 hrs/week)

About Kinetic Light

Kinetic Light (KL) is a disability arts organization that affirms and advances the disability arts movement. Founded by Alice Sheppard in 2016, KL works in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance. KL creates, performs, and teaches at the nexus of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

KLs work speaks to and emerges from disability aesthetics and disability culture, and it is connected to the rich traditions and exciting contemporary conversations of disabled artists in all artistic fields. In Kinetic Lights work disability is not a deficit, it is a powerful, intersectional creative force that is essential to artistry. Access is integral to the art and creative process. KLs equitably accessible, multi-sensory artmaking results in production-intensive, technologically sophisticated work.

We are grateful to be celebrated both for our performances and our access innovation and advocacy, but we believe that these are not separatethe way we create art is activism. Our creative and administrative practices take us beyond the usual, minimal approaches of inclusion and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and considers disability as an aesthetic, a culture, and an essential element of our artistry. Since 2020, we have also offered an array of in-person and online field-building and education programs. A leader in technology and software development in the performing arts field, our artists, engineers, and staff research, develop, and release new access, VR, audio description, and haptics products and software.

Kinetic Light is led by disabled artists; disabled artists create, design, and perform the work. The organization currently encompasses a mostly remote team of 15, which includes the founding Artistic Director, a small full-time operations team of 4, and a robust team of part-time, temp and seasonal employees, along with multiple contractors/consultants.

Organizational Moment

As an organization, Kinetic Light is growing at the pace of our vision. We recently obtained 501c3 designation, are piloting a series of new technological and research projects, and are developing several new artistic works. This is a transformative moment, and it requires us to rethink how we work day-to-day while also expanding our organizational capacity. Over the next several years, our primary goal is to build a strong and accessible infrastructure that will support long-term sustainability.

We also recognize that this is a complex moment for the performing arts and that the culture of performance must evolve in order for the field to thrive. We imagine the new Director of Artistic Producing as a partner in navigating…