job posting: Full-time Faculty, Ceramics @ Maryland Institute College of Art

by Carole Epp | Oct 3, 2019 | job posting

Full-time appointment in Ceramics. The Ceramics Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art invites applications for this full-time faculty position with a multi-year renewable contract in a non-tenure institution beginning August 1, 2020.

We are committed to creating a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and people of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Job Description:

The College seeks an accomplished and innovative artist engaged in ceramics and committed to inclusive pedagogy. The successful candidate will be passionate about the evolution and future of ceramics, have an appreciation of the dynamic nature of ceramics across genres, and an understanding of the field’s traditions.

The appointment will be in the Ceramics Department, which is devoted to pedagogy and research that builds technical skills within a framework of innovation, interdisciplinary research and critical inquiry. The successful candidate will have a strong background across all ceramic methodologies, and have the ability to integrate theoretical, material, practical and social issues into Ceramics studio pedagogy.

This faculty member will teach eighteen credits per year (three courses per semester) at an art school nationally known for its dedication to teaching excellence, a rigorous liberal arts curriculum and the importance of the fine arts and will be capable of teaching all levels of the undergraduate program, including MICA’s First Year Experience. The candidate MICA is a student-centered institution, and candidates must be able to successfully teach, mentor, and empower a diverse population of talented and deeply-engaged students.

In addition to teaching, all full-time faculty are expected to pursue research and/or professional engagements that contribute to the educational mission of the Department and College. Faculty are also required to meaningfully contribute in a variety of areas that include: all aspects of departmental operations and institutional governance including departmental management, advising, institutional and departmental committee service, and scheduled departmental and student activities. Some administrative experience will be valued.

Requirements:

• Strong record of professional excellence as demonstrated by a portfolio of work and a record of exhibition or equivalent activity

• Personal commitment to teaching on an undergraduate level using pedagogical approaches that are relevant and responsive to a student body that is rich in diversity across race, ethnicity, gender, and class and their intersections

• Accomplished in a broad range of techniques in the ceramics medium

• Capable of teaching at all levels of undergraduate education including MICA’s First Year Experience

• Project management skills — the ability to coordinate community based projects, class-sized collaborative events, and/or research

• Knowledgeable about contemporary art issues and theory and their relationship to broader social, cultural, economic, scientific, and technological contexts

• Shows promise or proven ability to enrich the aims for diversity, equity, and justice of the Ceramics department and the College

• Ability to work in a collaborative environment, participating in advising, institutional and departmental committee service, and scheduled departmental and student activities

Highly valued but not required:

• MFA/MAT degree

• Three years of full-time teaching experience beyond graduate assistantships

• A history of research engaged with cross-genre work, integrated arts education and social and/or community-based practice

• Administrative experience

Additional Information:

Salary:  Commensurate with experience and college policy; excellent benefits package.

Apply:  The College will review applications as received.  Although materials received before November 8th, 2019 are best assured of receiving full consideration, the position will remain open until filled.  All inquiries, nominations and applications will be held in the strictest confidence.

Full details HERE.