job postings @ Clay Art Center

by | Nov 2, 2019 | job posting

Clay Art Center is Hiring!

Program and Sales Assistant

35 hours/week, Tuesday – Saturday
Pay: $30,000 – 33,000

Clay Art Center seeks a Program and Sales Assistant to work in our vibrant non-profit ceramic art organization in Port Chester, New York. We are looking for a person with excellent people skills to operate the front desk with the day to day tasks of sales and student registration. Be the first person that our customers/students see and hear on a daily basis. This position requires individuals to be detail-oriented, organized, and possess excellent people skills. Must have a working knowledge of applications including Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, Salesforce (database management) and website management. Language proficiency in Spanish is a plus.

Details of the job:

Programs – Responsible for registering students and managing student activities for all educational programs
● Manage student class and workshop registration
● Update and maintain class, party, and private instruction schedules
● Process, deliver and manage student credit logs for payment of supplies
● Assist in coordination of private instruction sessions and clay parties
● Manage classroom tools and office supply ordering and inventory

Communications – Responsible for timely communications with students & visitors via email/phone & in person.
● Answer phones and greet visitors, guests, or customers in a professional manner daily
● General customer care, including giving tours of facility when needed
● Update website for classes, programs, and other pages

Gallery Shop Management
● Handle gallery and shop sales
● Maintain upkeep of display in shop
● Attend gallery openings and events as needed

Exhibitions
● Assist Exhibitions Manager with exhibition related programs

Benefits: Health Insurance, vacation and sick days, opportunity to take a free ceramics class.

Application instructions: Please send resume and cover letter with the subject line Program and Sales Assistant to [email protected]. No phone calls please.

Posted October 31, 2019

Program Director

Full-time
Salary: $45,000-60,000

Do you love clay? Do you believe everyone deserves access to the arts?

Clay Art Center, a nationally recognized non-profit center for the advancement and practice of the ceramic arts, seeks a dynamic educator and program administrator to lead Clay Art Center’s Programs. Reporting to the Executive Director, you will be responsible for managing onsite adult and youth education and work in partnership with area schools, community centers and organizations to provide access to the ceramic arts for the community’s economically disadvantaged youth, teens and older adults, and for those with special needs. The Program Director also oversees special projects such as mosaics and youth symposia. The Program Director is responsible for each program’s content, budget, and growth.

Specific responsibilities include:

Program Development:
• Direct, expand and deepen existing community arts and youth programs and develop new partnerships.
• Develop, implement and grow adult educational programs, including one-time and weekly classes, private lessons, independent study and clay parties
• Hire and supervise community arts and youth/summer camp instructors. Provide opportunities to develop teaching skills.
• Hire and manage instructors, and produce teacher contracts each session. Conduct 3 teacher meetings per year
• Manage the scholarship program for summer camp and youth classes.

Education Programming:
• Curate and coordinate a calendar of workshops, collaborating with Exhibitions Manager; implement workshops
• Oversee enrollment and manage communications to address low enrollment and ensure student prospects are being attended to in a timely manner
• Ensure classrooms are adequately equipped to fulfill needs of program, working with Studio Manager to address short and long term needs;
• Help organize public and private events specific to students and members

Marketing and Evaluation:
• Prepare content for class brochures and other print media by working with other Clay Art Center staff
• Oversee and maintain educational and community content on website
• Analyze metrics and evaluate the impact of programming quarterly

Personnel:
• Supervise part-time Community Liaison and full-time Program Assistant
• Supervise and mentor Community Arts Fellow and Community Arts Assistant(s), who provide technical and administrative support.
• Be accountable and report to the ED
• General customer care, including returning phone calls and emails daily and developing relationships with students, teachers, student prospects and visitors.
• Attend gallery openings and events as needed

Financial:
• Develop budget for programming
• Maintain controls to meet fiscal year income and expense budget targets
• Manage credit log system
• Manage instructor hourly payroll on a bi-monthly basis.

Qualifications:
• 4 years of experience in community-based arts programming, adult education, k-12 education or arts administration.
• A deep knowledge of ceramics.
• Ability to teach and develop programming for a wide spectrum of audiences and ages.
• Access to reliable transportation.

Benefits: Health Insurance, vacation and sick days, opportunity to take a free ceramics class.

Application instructions: Please send resume and cover letter with the subject line Program Director to [email protected]. No calls please.

Posted November 1, 2019

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job posting: Assistant/Associate Professor of Craft/Material Studies — Specialization in Clay – VCU

by | Oct 20, 2019 | job posting

VCUarts Department of Craft/Material Studies (https://arts.vcu.edu/craft/) seeks a colleague for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of either Assistant or Associate Professor with a specialization in clay. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic teacher, creative colleague, broad thinker and artist who will want to contribute to the progressive spirit of an established material studies program. The faculty member will teach specialized courses in clay that include handbuilding and large-scale construction. An understanding of and the ability to incorporate both analogue and digital practices in teaching and research methods is preferred. Our new colleague will be well versed in material knowledge and object-based practices and will offer students a framework through which important critical theories and historical craft knowledge can be emphasized and studied. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a commitment to pedagogical projects and coursework that support an inclusive, diverse, and accessible experience for all students. Additional interdisciplinary opportunities are available for an engaged colleague, including advanced studios, foundations, and graduate seminars.

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Position Responsibilities

Virginia Commonwealth University operates on a semester system and the teaching load for this position will be five (5) courses a year. Courses will range from undergraduate to graduate level, including graduate committee service across the disciplines of the department. The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of the fields of craft and fine art in order to teach both undergraduate and graduate seminars with rotational topics.

The faculty member must have demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment and will have experience in developing or the potential to develop initiatives, mentoring, and teaching that makes a meaningful art education accessible to underrepresented or disadvantaged groups.

Our colleague will demonstrate through research, teaching, and/or public engagement the richness of diversity in the learning experience and integrate multicultural approaches and perspectives into instructional methods and research tools.

The preferred candidate will have an active professional career and demonstrate a commitment to or potential for involvement in professional national or international organizations and bodies. The faculty member’s creative and research activity should make a significant contribution to a body of knowledge within an expanded definition of the discipline of craft, fine arts and ceramics as well as reflect a high standard of quality. Creative activities should be related to the program’s wider curriculum, be consistent with and support the broader mission and initiatives of the department, School, and University, and exhibit potential for or evidence of securing external funding for scholarship or creative expression.

As a member of a community-oriented, tight-knit department and School, the faculty member will provide service, including coordination of student activities and student exhibitions; serving on School/University committees; participating in open houses, portfolio reviews, and attending exhibition openings; and contributing to recruitment efforts for the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs. The faculty member will mentor student artists; supervise graduate students; and foster collaborative curriculum and research across the arts and broader campus.

Required Qualifications

  • MFA or equivalent professional experience and training that equates to an MFA;
  • Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU;
  • Active artistic practice and reputation in the field;
  • Demonstrated effectiveness in studio critique and teaching beyond graduate school;
  • The faculty member will be required to have a well-established creative research agenda, and/or clear potential for external funding, as appropriate, and potential for scholarship or creative expression that complements and expands existing expertise in the department and School;
  • Proficiency with both Handbuilding and Wheel Throwing techniques.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong foundation in contemporary critical discourse;
  • Fluency in area of specialization, craft, and contemporary art;
  • Demonstrated ability to attract high-caliber graduate students;
  • Commitment to collaborative research and curriculum development in the arts;
  • Record of community-engaged teaching or extra-curricular activities.

Please see full post at https://www.vcujobs.com/postings/94283 for more details

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

by | 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.

job posting: Archie Bray Foundation

by | Sep 3, 2019 | job posting

Development Director
The Archie Bray Foundation seeks a full-time development director to head ongoing fundraising and operational needs. Reporting to the Resident Artist Director, this professional must have an established background in coordinating nonprofit cultivation/donation strategies and staff/volunteer leadership.

To Apply
Interested candidates should send a resume, a cover letter, writing samples and contact information for four references to click here to get email address or The Archie Bray Foundation, 2915 Country Club Ave., Helena, MT, 59602. No phone calls, please.

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Learn more about the Archie Bray HERE.