About Rehabilitation Through the Arts
Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) is a world leader in arts-in-corrections and has worked for almost three decades in maximum and medium security men’s and women’s prisons to teach theater, dance, music, visual arts, and creative writing. With its immersive and highly successful model, RTA helps people in prison develop critical life skills through the arts, modeling an approach to the justice system based on human dignity, rather than punishment.
RTA operates in eight facilities, each of which has a steering committee of incarcerated members. The committee works alongside RTA staff and about 50 professional Teaching Artists to offer customized programming. RTA creates a community inside prisons by using the arts as a tool to support emotional, social, and cognitive growth.
RTA and its programming is the subject of a major feature film, ‘Sing Sing’, which is expected to bring a high degree of public awareness to RTA upon its theatrical release in July and generate opportunities for major funding and expansion. RTA has partnered with Accenture to maximize these opportunities and to ensure RTA’s growth and success.
RTA is guided by the values of dignity, creativity, commitment, and collaboration. For more information on Rehabilitation Through the Arts, please visit www.rta-arts.org/ or “The Latest” on the RTA blog at https://www.rta-arts.org/blog.
The Opportunity
Rehabilitation Through the Arts is seeking a transformational leader to serve as the next Executive Director. The new Executive Director will oversee all facets of the organization’s work including strategic planning, organizational and programmatic management, fundraising, external affairs, and marketing and communications.