I teach art in my home country although I don't have any formal teaching or art qualifications. I am a BSc and I am good at teaching art.

I want to be able to tutor farangs in painting as part of my wife's business. I understand that to do this I will need a work permit.

I worry that teaching art would be considered to be a skill that Thai teachers have and therefore a work permit might not be issued. In fact of course I have skills which would be very rare in Thai teachers, probably non-existent.

So how can I proceed? Any ideas would help me greatly.

Thanks

I am not sure what kind of business your wife has or if she can even offer a work permit. However as far as teaching art is concerned, yes foreigners can do it. In CM there was a collection of artists that offered courses in a variety of things.They however didn't limit themselves just to foreigners. I have a friend that is a tenured professor of art here and has received his 2nd title. So at the university level it is totally acceptable so it would be assumed that a registered tutoring school or art academy could hire foreigners. .

I will say this though, make sure that you really offer something as an artist and educator. There are many highly talented artists and instructors. If people are to pay you money, they need to get something that they cannot get anywhere else.

I am not sure what kind of business your wife has or if she can even offer a work permit. However as far as teaching art is concerned, yes foreigners can do it. In CM there was a collection of artists that offered courses in a variety of things.They however didn't limit themselves just to foreigners. I have a friend that is a tenured professor of art here and has received his 2nd title. So at the university level it is totally acceptable so it would be assumed that a registered tutoring school or art academy could hire foreigners. .

I will say this though, make sure that you really offer something as an artist and educator. There are many highly talented artists and instructors. If people are to pay you money, they need to get something that they cannot get anywhere else.

Thanks for that. My wife's business is not a registered school, its more like a resort offering scuba instruction than a school.

The reason for teaching farangs rather than Thai people is that my rates are most likely too high. I already know that I can charge such rates for art tutoring I my home country and I am pretty sure international visitors to Thailand will pay the same rates.

Do you think that the business would have to be a school to arrange for a work permit for an employee to tutor in art?

I am certain that your wife could manage getting you a work permit but the paperwork would have to be modified. I doubt that you would be teaching art on the paperwork though.

Go for it. but you might want to contact a lawyer to set up the paperwork or at the very least have your wife call the labor department for what paperwork she needs.

I doubt that you will have the success you think but you never know. There are literally thousands of talented artists and craftpeople who teach courses from anywhere to 200-1000k baht (7-30$) an hour. I doubt that even foreigners are going to pay 50-100$ an hour for a course. Most that come to Thailand would most likely want to learn a Thai style. It would kind of like going to France to study Italian cooking.