job posting: Just Potters

by | Jan 10, 2021 | job posting

JustPotters Manager
Job Posting
December 2020
Application Deadline: January 18, 2021

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Link to the Mission At JustWork, we aspire to be a part of a healthy community where people are meaningfully and gainfully employed and where business practices embrace an ethical, social mandate. To achieve this, JustWork offers dignified, meaningful work opportunities for people facing multiple barriers to employment through operating three social enterprises: JustCatering, JustRenos and JustPotters. A social enterprise is an organization pursuing both social/environmental and financial goals. Central to our organization’s aim is the social value of creating working contexts where those with some kind of disability or working barrier can become agents of their own transformation.
JustPotters (founded in 2006) is a social enterprise operated by JustWork Economic Initiative. Our goal is to offer dignified work for people who face barriers to employment, while providing our wholesale, and retail customers with beautiful, locally handcrafted ceramics.

Overview
We are currently looking for JustPotters Manager who can oversee the production of ceramics to both retail stores and direct sales to customers. The manager is also responsible for overseeing pottery classes and workshops that are scheduled on a regular basis throughout the year.

The Ideal Candidate We are looking for someone who is passionate about doing a job that will make a positive impact in the community. This passion should be combined with skills and experience in each of these areas:

  • Ceramic Arts: Expertise in ceramic arts, providing guidance as well as hands-on assistance. This involves experience with wheel throwing, hand-building, as well as firing and glazing.
  • Studio Management: Experience in organizing of bisque and glaze firings, loading and unloading kilns, order coordination, shipping and receiving, ordering supplies, quality control, general studio maintenance.
  • People: Demonstrated ability to work well alongside people who come from a range of socio- economic backgrounds and who face a variety of physical and mental disabilities. Previous management experience is an asset.
  • Workshops: Experience in teaching and/or leading workshops is a plus, including preparing course descriptions and syllabus.
  • Administration: A demonstrated ability to manage customer inquiries and requests, as well as tasks such as invoicing and payroll.

Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of ceramics arts experience; 2+ years in a supervisory role.
  • Able to work well with people from diverse backgrounds, and people facing barriers to employment
  • Extremely dependable. Good role model. Pleasant demeanor.
  • Comfortable functioning in a Christian faith-based organization.
  • Driver’s license is a plus.

Time Commitment:
This role is for 20-30 hours per week. The role is for a period of 12 months as maternity leave coverage position. The successful candidate would need to start the position by mid-February 2021.

Accountability:
This person will report to the JustWork Executive Director

Compensation
●  This is role is paid on an hourly basis.
●  Wages are $22-25 per hour depending on experience and qualifications

Contact:
If interested, please send your resume and a letter outlining your interest to our operations coordinator at ​[email protected]​.

www.justwork.ca

job posting : Ceramics 2 Tenure-track Assistant Professor positions for BIPOC

by | Dec 14, 2020 | job posting

University of Manitoba

Location: Manitoba
Date posted: 2020-12-04
Advertised until: 2021-01-04

 

The School of Art at the University of Manitoba invites applications for two (2) full-time tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 1, 2021, or as soon thereafter as possible. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

This opportunity is open to individuals who self-identify as Indigenous and/or as Black Peoples and/or as members of other racialized groups. Recognizing the underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized faculty in the School of Art, this opportunity is to support the University’s commitment to Employment Equity and has been developed based on the Special Program Provisions of the Manitoba Human Rights Code.

While this call for applications is open, with respect to the artistic practice, we especially welcome applications from those whose creative work is in the areas of Ceramics, Sculpture, and/or Printmaking.

These positions include responsibilities in teaching (undergraduate and graduate), research, and service. We seek candidates with a strong contemporary research program and studio practice, teaching experience, and a record of professional achievement. Candidates must possess a thorough understanding of the contemporary theory and practice of their particular area of creative work, as well as an ability to integrate this expertise into their teaching and research. Ideal candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to visual culture and teaching, student achievement, community engagement, diversity, and inclusion. The successful applicants must hold an MFA or an equivalent terminal degree in a closely related discipline. Applicants should articulate their ability to establish an active research program, and their ability to promote collaborations within the School, across campus, and in the wider community.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative education community located on the Fort Garry campus at the University of Manitoba, the province’s larges university, with opportunities for collaborative work with colleagues in the School of Art, in the performing arts (Music and Theatre), as well as other disciplines from across this large U15 institution. The School of Art has 16 full-time faculty and over 300 students. The School of Art is located in the ARTlab, an award-winning, state of the art structure, which houses classrooms and studios for drawing, painting, video, print media, photography, graphic design, and digital media, as well as the School of Art Gallery and Soundstage, an experimental multi-media space. Faculty are also provided an office and studio space in the adjoining Taché Hall building. The School of Art offers excellent opportunities for research, collaboration, and teaching in both graduate and undergraduate programs. The School of Art offers an MFA in studio practice as well as BFA and BFA honours program in studio practice and art history. For further information, please visit the School of Art website: http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art.

The University of Manitoba campuses are located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. Creating Pathways to Indigenous Achievement is a key priority for the University, as identified in its 2015-2020 Strategic Plan, Taking Our Place. Home to a vibrant Indigenous community, with more than 2,400 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students, the U of M has one of the larges Indigenous student populations in the country. Honoured to be chosen as the host of the Nation Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, the U of M is dedicated to advancing Indigenous research and scholarship and to becoming a centre of excellence for this work.

The University is located in Winnipeg, the larges city in the province of Manitoba. The city has a rich cultural environment. The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug In ICA, Urban Shaman, aceartinc., and Platform Gallery are among its many exciting gallery venues. The Winnipeg Art Gallery has rich collections of historical and Canadian international art, and a rapidly expanding collection of contemporary Indigenous art; the Inuit Art Centre at the Gallery has the larges collection of modern Inuit art of any public institution in the world. Border Crossings, the Manitoba Museum, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Manitoba Opera, and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre are some of its other cultural institutions. A varied and innovative calendar of cultural festivals with a strong emphasis on the performing arts complements Winnipeg’s rich “brick and mortar” cultural institutions. Winnipeg is also a centre for numerous winter festivals and activities.

The University of Manitoba is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual and gender identities, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

If you require accommodation supports during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] or 204-474-7195. Please note this contact information is for accommodation reasons only.

Applications must include the following materials collated into a single PDF document, via email (noted below):

  • A cover letter describing what you would bring to the position and how you would contribute to the educational community at the School of Art, (one page);
  • Curriculum vitae detailing education, professional background, exhibition history, and teaching record;
  • Statement of teaching philosophy, highlighting areas of expertise (one page maximum);
  • Statement of research interests (one page maximum);
  • Statement of personal understanding of diversity and inclusion, specifically in your pedagogy and artistic practice (one page maximum);
  • Up to 20 images of your work and/or up to 20 minutes of time-based work, up to 10 images of your students’ work, and an image checklist with media description. Images should be presented as a single print-ready PDF file; time-based works should be in a .mov/mp4 file format (or provide link and password to a selection of work viewable online—vimeo, you tube, or any other platform);
  • Names and contact information for three referees (references will be requested for short-listed candidates);
  • Evidence of teaching effectiveness (such as student feedback, course evaluations etc.);
  • Sample assignments and/or outlines for any courses or workshops taught; and
  • Copies of degrees.

Applications will be accepted until January 22, 2021 or until the positions are filled. Send application materials to:

Dr. Edward Jurkowski, Chair, Search Committee
School of Art, 313 ARTlab
University of Manitoba
180 Dafoe Rd.
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
[email protected]

job posting: Ceramic tech and teacher MakerSpace & Co (Sydney)

by | Oct 14, 2020 | job posting

Part time Ceramic Technician & Teacher

Salary: Approximately 20 hours per week tech work: $25.18 per hour Monday – Friday & $31.475 on Saturday. Approximately 4 hours a week of teaching. Teaching hours paid at $50 per hour.

Mandate: Be the central cog of our passionate community of ceramics members, studio tenants, teachers and students.

Commencing: October 25th 2020.

Hours: The hours will be in a fixed roster but will include a mix of days, evenings and Saturdays.

Benefits: Be a part of Sydney’s most exciting maker community. Access the workshop facilities and classes to develop your own skills and projects. Option to extend the role with additional teaching.

About the organisation:

MakerSpace & Co is a not for profit organisation founded in Sydney’s Inner West providing access to equipment, expertise and space for emerging designers, entrepreneurs, artists, makers and artisans. MakerSpace & Co is equipped with cutting-edge machine workshops, studio spaces and education programs that are so needed by designers. It is also a place for locals to participate in the culture of making, and for visitors to experience the best in Australian design across furniture, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, recycled plastics and industrial design. It helps build Australian creative businesses, employment and communities.

About the Role:

We are looking for the perfect part-time ceramics technician & teacher who can look after the kilns, manage firings, clay recycling, studio supplies and oversee workflow systems (location of greenware, bisqued, glazed and finished works).

You’ll have an excellent working knowledge of throwing, handbuilding and slip-casting processes, glazes and firing. You will induct and train new members on the machinery and tools, talk through making strategies and techniques for their projects. You need to not only love making things with clay, but you need to be passionate and patient when guiding others who are just starting out.

As the head of the Ceramics department, you will be closely involved in our short courses program, developing new clases, and sourcing new teachers. The role will include a minimum of 4 hours of teaching every week, helping beginners and more advanced students to learn new skills.

Providing a great customer experience is essential. As part of a growing team, you’ll know the ins-and-outs of MakerSpace & Co so you can keep our members and the public up to date with upcoming events and developments. In this capacity, you will also be answering phone and email enquiries that are both specific to the ceramics department, and general enquiries. You’ll help customers by answering questions, booking people into classes, signing up new members and placing people on wait-lists.

Who will you be working with and reporting to?
●  You will report to the Education Program Manager and Building and Memberships Manager.

●  You will work closely with the rest of our team – our Workshop Manager, our Marketing Coordinator, our Managing Director and our teachers.
●  You will liaise with the rest of the teaching, member and tenant community in regards to education programs and events.

●  You will also assist with training volunteers to help in the Ceramic Studio.

Responsibilities:

●  Managing firings (loading and unloading kilns, firing timetables for earthenware and stoneware firings etc.)

●  Managing consumables – ordering clay, glazes and other requirements

●  Maintenance of equipment in the ceramics studio.

●  Training new members and staff in equipment use.

●  Studio supervision and assisting members and students with their pottery projects.

●  Teaching students, from beginners to advanced.

●  Assist with programming short courses in the Woodwork department, and in collaboration with other departments.

●  Assisting Education Program Manager with class timetables for classes taking place in the ceramics studio (and relevant firing schedules).

●  First Aid Officer (training provided if necessary).

●  Customer service – in person, via phone and email.

●  Basic filing of documents.

●  Using booking platform to book and change classes, create new accounts and troubleshoot.

Skills and Experience:

●  Management of ceramics studio

●  Teaching and assisting others with technical and design aspects of ceramics.

●  Patience – you know it’s always ok to be a beginner and not to know, and you know that humans get things wrong sometimes.

●  Experience in throwing clay, slip-casting, handbuilding clay, glazing, and troubleshooting all of the above.

●  Use of kilns for firing mixed works and mixed glazes.

●  Friendly, un-intimidating, open, sharing, knowledgeable and generally lovely.

●  Basic confidence with computer systems – you will be using our booking platform to manage memberships, bookings and sales, and other basic programs.

Benefits and culture:

Be a part of Sydney’s most exciting cultural development. As part of the MakerSpace & Co family, you will be exposed to opportunities to hone your creative skills and interests with professional development opportunities including teaching, taking classes, access to the facilities, production work and the potential to shape and grow the role.

Applications:

To apply, please send your

CV + Portfolio + Availability + Cover letter to [email protected] .

The Cover Letter should be a maximum of two pages and cover a selection of the Responsibilities and Skills and Experience dot points listed above.

For any enquiries, please call our Managing Director Kris on 0405138635.

Apply now, the position will be filled as soon as we find the perfect person to join the team. 

JOB CALL: BIPOC Outreach Coordinator Deadline: SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

by | Sep 25, 2020 | job posting

Mohkínstsis is the Blackfoot word for “elbow.” Wincheesh-pah is the Stoney word for “elbow.” Kootsisáw is the Tsuut’ina word for “elbow.” While the place where the Elbow River meets the Bow is today commonly known as Calgary, it’s had many other names throughout its history, which expands for thousands of years in all directions. The rivers’ confluence is a location of perennial importance. Sprung from a small lake on the eastern lip of the Rocky Mountains, the Elbow River snakes its way through the foothills in between the mountains and the city, enriched by the mineral-saturated terrain through which it travels. The Bow River also runs from the Rockies through the foothills and into the Prairie. Both rivers have always been veins of life. Today, they provide direction, power, fresh drinking water, and a home for millions of kinds of life. The Bow is fiercer, and has historically only had two crossings; one, where the Elbow meets it, and the second, Blackfoot Crossing: an integral trading route and hunting ground, and the place where Treaty 7 was signed in 1877. Today, the Bow and the Elbow continue to provide for all of us who call this place home—they cannot be owned, nor can this land. We are required, in return, to care for the rivers in collaboration with their traditional custodians who have always, and will continue to, care for this land, and tell its story; the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Blackfoot First Nations who have called this land home for many millennia; the Tsuut’ina First Nation, whose ᑕᓀᖚ (Dane-zaa) ancestors migrated here from the northern Peace River before Europeans settled in this region; and the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley Stoney Nakoda First Nations whose ancestors migrated from the south and since, have cared for the rivers where they begin. Many other Indigenous people from across Turtle Island also call this place home and care for it generously, and where the rivers meet is part of the home of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.

From Living Text, Richelle Bear Hat, Natasha Chaykowski, Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal, Curtis Running Rabbit-Lefthand. Untitled Art Society, 2020.

Untitled Art Society and Stride Gallery are seeking a BIPOC Outreach Coordinator on behalf of the Alberta Association of Artist-Run Centres (AAARC).

Job Description:

 The Outreach Coordinator will work closely with Untitled and Stride staff and the AAARC Equity Committee to assist in organizing a series of internal and public-facing initiatives around equity in artist-run culture and the arts sector broadly, in the Fall of 2020. As an advocacy organization for artist-run centres in Alberta, AAARC is currently developing internal work, best practices, field reports and various formats of public forums and plenary sessions. In the next year, AAARC will create communication channels for artist-run centres and the communities we serve to integrate equity and accountability frameworks, as well as support for artists from equity-seeking communities. The Outreach Coordinator will work with the Equity Committee as we create the initial blueprints for these conversations; they will assist in organizing these initiatives in the fall through sharing the responsibility for internal and external communications, including marketing and digital communications and advertising, and are expected to attend weekly meetings with support staff, monthly meetings with the organizing committee, and in-person or virtual meetings with local project partners in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. The Outreach Coordinator will assist with operations as needed. Alongside the administrative and planning responsibilities, there are contract hours earmarked for self-directed research of the employee’s choosing.

Qualifications:

Untitled Art Society, Stride Gallery and AAARC recognize the unique qualifications of applicants from BIPOC communities, and acknowledge that skills learned from living in those communities are integral to equity work. As this position is created around equity work, we are seeking applications from BIPOC candidates.

Additional qualifications include:

• Dedication and investment in equity work in the cultural sector;

• Strong communications skills;

• Strong writing and research skills;

• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team;

• Strong computer literacy including Microsoft Office; experience with database entry an asset;

• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail;

• Fluent in English, a second language would be an asset;

• Experience in the non-profit sector an asset;

• Experience working with art galleries and artist-run centres an asset;

• Experience with the execution of events an asset.

 Under the terms and conditions of Canada Summer Jobs, applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria: be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment; be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act 3; and, be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant legislation and regulations

Remuneration:

This role will be a full-time position, 30 hours/week, from October 2020 – January 2021, at $25/hour. If full-time hours present a barrier for applicants, we are open to considering alternative ways of organizing working hours. There is an opportunity to continue this employment opportunity beyond the contract end date.

Support for the Position:

  • UAS & Stride staff for day-to-day mentorship will be available to provide assistance as well as for regular check-ins as desired

  • AAARC Equity Committee mentorship

  • Dedicated BIPOC HR liaison

Application:

Please send:

·     1 page cover letter or 5 minute video or voice recording (link or actual file)

·     Outline of independent research interests for self-directed projects (optional)

·     CV or Resume (optional)

To [email protected] before September 28, 2020 with the subject line reading [ATTN: Hiring Committee].

Hiring Process:

Application deadline: September 28, 2020

Interviews: October 1 – 2, 2020

Position start date: October 5 – 13, 2020

The hiring committee will be comprised of staff from each of the two ARCs as well as a member of the AAARC Equity Committee.

Accessibility:

UAS, Stride and AAARC are committed to accommodating applicants with barriers to the recruitment process as well as throughout their contract. The Untitled Art Society office is wheelchair accessible, has two single stall, gender neutral washrooms and is located near public transit in downtown Mohkinstsis/Calgary. We are also able to accommodate remote work, if commuting daily to the office is a barrier for applicants. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the accessibility of the hiring process or the employment opportunity, please email [email protected]. We will work with you to meet your needs.

About:

Untitled Art Society is an artist-run centre in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory. Our core goals are: to support the development, creation, and presentation of new work by early-career artists; to provide affordable studio space for Calgary-based artists; and to broaden the reach and scope of contemporary art in Calgary, with the ultimate, if ambitious, aim to expose Calgarians to artistic work that explores pressing contemporary issues. We work toward these goals with an artist-centric approach that prioritizes the wholesale support of artists; creative and radical uses of spaces outside of the gallery; and a curatorial focus on projects and practices that dovetail with the specific socio-political, cultural, colonial, economic, and Indigenous histories and contexts of Alberta. Ultimately, Untitled strives to empower and support artists to imagine radical futures, and to invite those inside and outside of our community to be co-conspirators in realizing such futures.

Stride is a non-profit artist-run centre that supports contemporary art practices. We believe in art that addresses our current realities with urgency, criticality and care through which we can propose new ways of thinking and being. For these emergent practices, we provide various platforms such as exhibitions, public programs, performances, workshops, publications, and gathering. Through these programs, we aim to foster community participation and conversations around art.

Founded in 2005, the Alberta Association of Artist-run Centres (AAARC) supports advocacy, networking, and organizational growth for artist-run visual arts organizations across Alberta. As a syndicate of ten not-for-profit artist-run centres, each with their own mandate, AAARC’s activities continue to strengthen community and collaboration in contemporary art by facilitating close communication between organizations. Since the early 1970s, and continuing today, Alberta’s artist-run centres have fostered artistic ingenuity, creative production, and dynamic public engagement with art—supporting a wide range of artists and contemporary art practices.

AAARC is part of the regional caucus of ARCA, an organization that represents and advocates for Canadian artist-run organizations on national and international levels, and in August 2021 AAARC will partner with ARCA to host Lands to Travel Through, an artist-run gathering in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Alberta: landstotravelthrough.ca

job posting: Digital Content Developer

by | Sep 13, 2020 | job posting

We are hiring! The CCF/FCMA encourages candidates to apply for our remote Digital Content Developer position. Put your design/social media/marketing/communications skills to work for an organization that values culture, diversity, and teamwork.

Deadline: September 15th, 2020. For more detail see the full job listing at: bit.ly/3hc0EG6