Continuing Education Instructor, Creative Jewelry Making

CE Overview

RISD Continuing Education functions within the larger context of RISD, an institution with an unparalleled reputation for producing highly‑skilled, successful, and internationally renowned creative practitioners. With more than 100 years of expertise nurturing critical making, thinking, and innovation in art and design, we facilitate personal and professional development by engaging students in sustained exploration and learning in the creative disciplines. With a commitment to centering inclusivity, diversity and equity in executing key responsibilities, RISD Continuing Education instructors plan, organize, teach, and provide feedback to promote and direct student learning in keeping with the institutional learning‑centered values and in a manner that meets essential competencies of artists and designers.

RISD Continuing Education instructors plan, organize, teach, and provide feedback to promote and direct student learning in keeping with the institutional learning‑centered values and in a manner that meets the essential competencies of an artist and designer. Instructors respond to students in a timely manner and communicate with the discipline and division via college‑provided tools and resources. We welcome instructors whose teaching experience addresses historically underrepresented communities.

The successful candidate should be prepared to teach in person on RISD Campus to a diverse group of students from a range of disciplines. Interpersonal and leadership skills, clarity, generosity, and creativity in both personal work and teaching are essential. Candidates should develop culturally diverse syllabi for studio and seminar courses and lead classes and critiques that model constructive, inclusive discussions encouraging students to grow creatively and intellectually.

We are looking for an instructor whose specialty is Jewelry Making. This 6‑week evening course explores jewelry making techniques that take place outside of a professional jewelry studio setting. The successful candidate should be able to explore one of the following topics such as lost‑wax casting, wire wrapping and other forms of cold connection. This class will take place in a design studio where no soldering or flamework is possible, so knowledge of a creative practice is a must.

• Bachelor's Degree required. MFA preferred or equivalent in established professional practice in area of study.
• A track record of paid professional experience at companies successfully doing related work, and/or a robust, creative, intellectually and critically engaged design or studio practice, as evidenced by recognition in publications, commissions, exhibitions, awards, and/or collaborative projects.
• In‑person teaching experience, including the ability to create syllabi and lesson plans and tie those to learning outcomes.
• Course content in person; syllabus, learning outcomes, tutorials, assignments and components such as intuitive navigation, lively discussions, and meaningful feedback in a successful class.
• Ability to develop and implement diverse teaching and learning strategies for different learning styles and to respond to the needs of learners from a variety of educational backgrounds in a multicultural environment.
• Analytical, evaluative, and critical thinking skills.
• Accept and act upon constructive feedback from course and classroom evaluations by students and staff.
• Ability to meet RISD’s technology requirements.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to develop syllabi and lead classes and critiques that model constructive, inclusive discussions and encourage students to grow creatively and intellectually.
• In‑depth knowledge of creative jewelry making.

• Teaching experience in a collegiate or adult education setting that addresses underrepresented communities.
• Ability to convey complex art engagement ideas in a clear and articulate manner for an art and design program, and design concepts that serve adult students with varied skills (novice to advanced) in a condensed time frame.
• Commitment to…