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Art And Art History Lecturer Pool - Pictorial Art

The Department of Art and Art History at San José State University is searching for part-time Pictorial faculty to run rigorous skill-based courses, encourage critical thinking and iterative concept development for various levels of our course offerings. We seek candidates with an active and contemporary art practice and a desire to have a voice in curriculum development. The appointee will teach a broad range of courses in the Pictorial Art area including but not necessarily limited to:

• Two-Dimensional Design, Color, Beginning and Representational Drawing, Expressive and Advanced Drawing, Beginning through Advanced Painting and possibly Life Drawing and Figure Painting as well as some aspects of printmaking.
• It is desirable for the candidate to have some familiarity with digital processes.
• In addition to regular teaching assignments, the appointee may share curriculum development and graduate and undergraduate student review responsibilities.
• The candidate must demonstrate awareness and experience understanding the needs of a student population of great diversity – in age, abilities, cultural background, ethnicity, religion, economic background, primary language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and academic preparation – through inclusive course materials, teaching strategies and advisement.
• Faculty shall organize all their classes within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).
• All classes must be offered and meet as scheduled throughout the entire semester or term, in the mode assigned and listed in the schedule of classes (i.e., asynchronous, synchronous, bi-chronous, in-person, or hybrid).

Required Qualifications

• Terminal Degree (MFA)
• Two years teaching 2-D fundamentals, drawing, painting, or printmaking at the university level.
• A pictorial arts background with the ability to teach a wide variety of two-dimensional courses including, dry and wet drawing mediums and oil and water based painting mediums including watercolor.
• The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to teach all levels of 2-D classes through a solid foundation in visual, analytical, and communication skills.
• The candidate should have an understanding of, and abilities in perceptually based drawing and painting as well as the concerns of process-oriented abstraction, painting and drawing in the expanded field, and familiarity with digital pictorial processes.
• Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience.

Preferred Qualification

• Teaching experience at the university level with two years of teaching in Painting and Drawing and/or Printmaking at the university level.

Compensation Compensation and salary range placement are determined by qualifications and experience. To learn more about range placement, please see University Policy S21-2.

Anticipated starting salary:

L-A / Range 2 - $5507 - $5959 L-B / Range 3 - $6221 - $7481 L-C / Range 4 - $6825 - $9431 L-D / Range 5 - $8593 - $10347

Range salaries above are the anticipated monthly salary rate of full-time AY faculty--part-time rates are prorated. There are 6 monthly payments per semester (full-time AY annual salary = rate x 12). See the Faculty Salary Schedule for more information.

Application Procedure Click Apply Now to complete the SJSU Online Employment Application and attach the following documents:

• Letter of application indicating courses of interest along with an explanation of relevant experience
• Curriculum vitae
• Statement of teaching interests/philosophy
• Contact information for three references
• Images representing 20 examples of candidate's original work (or URL of portfolio site)
• Images representing 20 examples of student work

SJSU accepts applications on an ongoing basis for our pool of temporary lecturers.