job posting: Emily Carr University of Art and Design

The Ceramics area at Emily Carr University focuses on developing critically engaged and contextually aware ceramic work. Situated within the interdisciplinary Visual Arts BFA in the Audain Faculty of Art, the Ceramics area fosters the development of student practice within the context of contemporary art discourse, with a strong technical and conceptual foundation, and a keen awareness of the relationship between ceramics and a range of disciplines and practices.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILTIES

Candidates should be able to teach ceramics at multiple levels, from Foundation to Graduate Studies, and will be expected to contribute to developing curriculum in an institution that is committed to the interrelation of theory and practice. The successful candidate will join a rigorous and committed team of Art faculty that also includes the following curriculum areas: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Illustration, Drawing, Print Media, Sculpture + Expanded Practices, New Media + Sound Arts, Performance, Interdisciplinary Visual Art and Praxis, as well as minors in Curatorial Practices and Art + Text. Candidates should be equally fluent in contemporary ceramics discourse and studio practice and in balancing the conceptual, aesthetic and technical demands of the discipline. Additionally, faculty are expected to participate in portfolio reviews, upper-level critiques, provide graduate student supervision, serve on administrative committees, engage in research, and to be an active member of the Emily Carr community. The successful candidate will have an active artistic research practice and a substantial exhibition and/or publication record with a solid, demonstrable foundation in ceramics. The successful candidate will have an established career profile and be active in national and international contexts.

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have:

The ideal candidate will have:
• Master of Fine Arts degree (or terminal degree in related discipline);
• minimum of two years of related post-secondary teaching experience that includes proven experience in curriculum development;
• strong evidence of excellence in ceramics practice;
• expertise in a range of traditional and contemporary methods of making; and
• significant evidence of active engagement with discourse within contemporary ceramics practices, histories and theories of ceramics, and more broadly in contemporary art discourse.

Candidates will have:
• expertise in a range of traditional and experimental ceramics techniques, which may include non-Western and/or Indigenous approaches;
• knowledge and ability to teach a range of material processes, including substantial knowledge of ceramic materials and glaze chemistry;
• the ability and interest in developing contemporary and innovative forms of curriculum and enthusiasm for planning and the participation in area responsibilities;
• a practice that may include hybrid and/or expanded ceramics-based work intersecting with other areas such as: sculpture, site-specificity and installation, performance, socially-engaged practice, public art, and other areas of enquiry.

Expertise in the following areas will be considered an asset:
• the ability to integrate new tools, media and methods into ceramics curriculum, including new and emerging technologies, digital 3-D prototyping software and output methods;
• demonstrated ability in advanced model making and mold making, design methodologies and production methods.