The studio monitor’s role is to monitor students working and ensure that safety rules are followed at all times when students are in the studio working during designated open studio times. Studio monitors will engage with metals and jewelry students who are in the studio working; answering questions about equipment, assist in finding supplies that students need, remind students and ensure that they follow all safety rules, and answer appropriate technique questions about skills that professors have taught and demonstrated in class. Studio monitors will confirm that students in the studio working are currently enrolled in metals and jewelry classes or have permission from a professor to be in the studio.
Studio monitors will also do cleaning jobs in the studio space and work on maintenance/cleaning projects of tools and equipment. The studio supervisor and/or professors will provide lists of duties and jobs that studio monitors are required to complete work period.
Studio monitors need to be able to talk respectfully and engage with all students who work in the studio. Monitors need to be able to work independently following lists of jobs/duties to be completed each period that they work. Monitors need to be reliable in showing up for schedules shifts to ensure that enrolled students are able to access the studio and work on assignments so that they can complete the assignments by class due dates.
