Collaborative Arts, Associate​/Full Professor, Department Chair

New York

Oct 26, 2026

Nov 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

The Department
- The Department of Collaborative Arts at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, seeks an accomplished, visionary Chair to lead its innovative Bachelor of Fine Arts program beginning in Fall 2027. This search is for an Associate Professor or full Professor tenure line (pending successful review) who will serve as Chair. The Chair position is a renewable 3-year term, upon successful review.

The Department of Collaborative Arts is an innovative, rigorous, and ambitious 4-year undergraduate interdisciplinary arts BFA program founded to cultivate a community of artists eager to break boundaries across all art disciplines and imagine new possibilities for artistic expressions. At its core lies a powerful intersection of hands-on art making, community building, collaborative spirit, and interdisciplinary arts education at the world's first global network university.

Department Overview & Philosophy
- The Department of Collaborative Arts educates the next generation of artists and creative leaders through a unique interdisciplinary curriculum that encourages them to work across traditional boundaries of artistic practice. Students engage with a broad range of forms and disciplines, including performance, acting, dance, film and moving image, music and sound, visual art, writing, emerging media and technology, and critical and cultural studies.

Rather than asking students to define themselves through a single discipline, Collaborative Arts provides them with the tools, experiences, and intellectual frameworks to develop artistic practices that move among forms, methodologies, technologies, and fields of knowledge. The curriculum combines hands-on artistic practice with historical, theoretical, and critical inquiry, culminating in advanced interdisciplinary work and a senior Capstone. Guided by experimentation, curiosity, and rigor, this program is far more than an amalgamation of all areas represented at Tisch, it is a pioneering area of study that promotes a bold vision for cross-disciplinary creation.

Responsibilities
- The Chair of Collaborative Arts will provide dynamic intellectual vision for the department’s faculty, staff, and student body, driving a curriculum that prioritizes collaboration, experimentation, artistic inquiry, an d the c reation of original work. In their administrative capacity, the Chair oversees day-to-day operations, strategic procedures, budgetary initiatives, enrollment targets, and overall programmatic activity. Personnel management is a core focus, as the Chair directs faculty and staff recruitment, hiring, formal reviews, future tenure-line development, and ongoing mentorship.

Additionally, the Chair leads the creation, organization, and implementation of curricular frameworks while strategically managing facilities, cutting-edge technologies, and physical resource allocation. Finally, the successful candidate will nurture and foster a collaborative practice through modeling collaboration with faculty and administrative staff, within the department, while actively connecting students to the extraordinary range of artistic, academic, and global study resources across Tisch, NYU’s global network, and New York City.

The Chair reports directly to the Dean of Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for an Associate Professor position is $130,000 - $150,000 and the annual base salary range for a full Professor position is $150,000 - $170,000. This pay range represents base pay only (for 9 months - paid over 12…