Assistant Professor of Art

Location:

Walla Walla, WA

Open Date:
Oct 23, 2026

Located in the vibrant community of Walla Walla, WA, Whitman College is home to an intellectually diverse, dynamic, and supportive community of some 500 staff and faculty serving roughly 1,500 students from the local region and across the globe. With exceptional students, accomplished faculty and staff, and engaged alumni, Whitman College continues to build on its national reputation for academic excellence as one of the top undergraduate, liberal arts colleges in the country.

Whitman College Department of Art seeks applicants for a tenure-track position beginning August 2027, with expertise in Printmaking/Book Arts, broadly defined, at the rank of Assistant Professor. Applicants must have an MFA by the time of appointment. A strong candidate will have college-level teaching experience, an active exhibition/presentation record, and knowledge of contemporary theory and practice.

The successful candidate will offer a full roster of courses in Printmaking (Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced), contribute to our Foundations program (a thematically-driven, beginner-level course of their own design, not necessarily utilizing Printmaking or Book Arts), as well as have the opportunity to teach our senior capstone courses (taught in rotation by all art faculty) and in the college's first year seminar general education program.

The standard annual teaching load is five courses.

The Studio Art Program at Whitman College is housed in the Fouts Center for the Visual Arts, a 38,000 square foot facility with studios in Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Digital Media, Printmaking, Ceramics, Photography, and Book Arts. Within this space, the candidate will have a personal studio and office adjacent to the Printmaking studio. The printmaking area is outfitted with two etching presses, a litho press, a manual proofing letterpress, a platen letterpress, and two vandercook letter presses, as well as an extensive collection of lead type, silkscreens, and stones.

Digital equipment in the studio includes a 17" wide format inkjet printer, laser printer, scanner, exposure unit, vinyl cutter, laser engraver and a video projection system. The digital lab next to the studio houses a 44" large format printer, large flatbed scanners, 3D printer and scanner and more!

The department invites applications from artists whose intellectual/creative life lies within the area of Printmaking, but which also exceeds it. As a department that is deeply invested in cultivating diverse creative practices at a small Liberal Arts College, we are looking for an artist who positions their teaching and vision within a large cultural, intellectual and interdisciplinary framework. Whether your interests and research extend into social/ecological justice and activism, performance, design, digital culture, social practice, community‑engaged learning, critical theory or any other discipline, we welcome your application.

We especially encourage candidates who wish to engage in cross‑pollination of ideas and intellectual experimentation within the art department, across campus, or in the broader community.

Walla Walla is a regional city of 35,000 with a unique geological landscape at the foot of the Blue Mountains and near the Oregon/Washington state border. A hub of significant indigenous cultural activity for thousands of years, and later a site of Western imperial expansion, conflict and settler colonial occupation, today in Walla Walla you will encounter the vast agricultural industries of wheat and wine, a pedestrian‑centric downtown, a vibrant Latinx community, alongside three institutions of higher education, a state penitentiary, and the nearby Hanford Nuclear site.…