California Institute of the Arts Program in Art seeks applications for full-time faculty positions. The ideal candidates will share the Program’s commitment to diversity and social justice. Ours is an evolving community of regular faculty, visitors, staff and students. Building on the legacy of the Feminist Art Program, the Program in Art was one of the first to reach gender parity on faculty and has long been working to build and sustain a heterogenous, racially, culturally and ideologically diverse group of artists and scholars. We value pedagogical diversity, rigor, inquiry, experimentation and interdisciplinarity. The Art Program faculty’s topics of research and instruction are self-motivated and fluid; areas of current interest include studio and extended genres, gender and queer theory, politics and history of racialization, postcolonial studies, media and new technologies, museum and curatorial studies, social and public practice. Applicants who place emphasis on multidisciplinary practices are particularly encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

The qualified applicant must have promising or significant professional accomplishments and/or exhibition record and at least two years teaching at the college level or comparable experience through activist community engagement, workshop facilitation, and/or other forms of instruction. A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required. The Art Program seeks to employ faculty who can engage our diverse communities of learners at the highest levels of artistic endeavor and critical thinking. We welcome candidates who possess a demonstrated worldview and cultural competency to support teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students of varied backgrounds, capabilities, perspectives, social identities and gender expressions. CalArts is an equal opportunity employer.

How to Apply

Please provide:

A cover letter that describes your interest in the position, relevant qualifications, approach to teaching.
A separate statement on past and potential contributions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice.
A brief proposal for a course that reflects your interests as a practitioner and teacher (250 words)
A current CV
8 to 10 works sample (images + description) if durational pieces please provide link to video.
Names and contact information for three references

How to apply:

Review of Applications will begin on 12/30/2021. For full consideration please apply by that date. Please go to this link to apply: http://apply.interfolio.com/97278

Equity & Diversity

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) seeks to employ faculty who can engage our diverse communities of learners at the highest levels of artistic endeavor and critical thinking. Across the range of practitioners from artists to scholars and librarians, we welcome candidates who possess a demonstrated worldview and cultural competency to support teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students of varied backgrounds, capabilities, perspectives, social identities and gender expressions. CalArts is an equal opportunity employer.

Further Information

CalArts has a multidisciplinary approach to its studies of the arts through six schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater. CalArts encourages students to explore and recognize the complexity of the many aspects of the arts. It is supported by a distinguished faculty of practicing artists and provides its Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts students with the hands-on training and exposure necessary for an artist’s growth. CalArts was founded in 1961 and opened in 1969 as the first institution of higher learning in the United States specifically for students interested in the pursuit of degrees in all areas of visual and performing arts.

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