Adjunct - Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design - Faculty Pool

New Adjunct - Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design - Faculty Pool 2025-26

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Proposed Start Date 09/16/2025
Working Title New Adjunct - Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design - Faculty Pool 2025-26
Department 301001 - ART
Office Position Number D97716
Representation AP - AFT, Local 3571

Brief Description of PSU/School/Dept
Portland State University (PSU) is a nationally acclaimed leader in sustainability and community-based learning. Oregon’s largest and most diverse university, PSU serves just under 30,000 students from 50 states and nearly 100 nations around the world. The Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design takes advantage of this diverse context, offering coursework that helps students explore the many ways artists and their works function within a larger social context.

With 1,300 undergraduate majors, a vibrant dual-focus graduate program and a dedicated faculty of artists, designers and scholars, Schnitzer’s School of Art + Art History + Design is a place where students from a variety of backgrounds interact, exchange ideas and cross conventional aesthetic boundaries.
In the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design
, students may pursue a BFA degree in Art Practice, a BFA in Graphic Design or a BA/BS in Art History, a BA/BS in Art & Design, a BA/BS on Cultural History of the Arts. Art Practice students begin with CORE which emphasizes community, visual literacy, the critical exploration of ideas, and the importance of craft. Our degree programs provide students with opportunities to forge connections between traditions of visual art and their own developing expression.

This posting represents a pool for new potential part time instructors to fill course openings in 2025-26 academic year. This posting should be used by new applicants applying to Art Practice, Art History, Graphic Design and the CORE program.
For the purpose of this posting new applicants are defined as those who have never taught for the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design as well as those faculty who have been absent for more than four terms or more. Your application may be considered for short term course substitutes as well as full term class assignments.
If you are a continuing adjunct faculty member do not use this site.

Art Practice encompassing the areas of Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Time Arts, Sculpture, Photography, Textiles, and Social Practice, provides an inquiry-based, hands‑on approach to art making. Through exposure to and experience with a wide‑range of creative practices, students are encouraged to embrace contemporary visual culture and the tensions between thinking and making, content and craft, hybrid practice and technical mastery. We encourage learning through dialogue, critique and collaboration.

Graphic Design encompasses the areas of:
Illustration, Page Design, Typography, Interactive Media and other areas of visual and multimedia communication. PSU GD equips students to conquer creative challenges with a breadth of technical and artistic skills. Our program prepares students to be exploratory, experimental, collaborative graphic designers who can thrive in today’s world. If you are an engaged educator interested in teaching with us, we potentially have openings in the areas of basic design, editorial design, design thinking, motion, interactive, illustration, branding and professional practices.

CORE is the common entry point for all students majoring in Art Practices and Art History. This innovative program fosters excitement for the diverse ways to engage in a creative life and provides learning situations that open up those possibilities.
CORE is designed to create community, foster learning, provide advising and extend the classroom into the city. We are searching for creative teachers who can support these ideas as well who bring an understanding of interdisciplinary practice and an excitement for collaboration to the program.
CORE consists of six courses. Three five-credit…