Associate Professor of Costume Design

Overview

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Position Title: Associate Professor of Costume Design

Position Number: 030252

UNCSA provides gifted emerging artists with the experience, knowledge and skills needed to excel in their disciplines and lives. It is the state’s unique professional school for the performing, visual, and moving image arts. Located in Winston-Salem, UNCSA is a conservatory-style school and one of the 17 constituent institutions of the UNC system. The School of Design & Production is one of the five collegiate programs, with a faculty and student body described in the original posting.

UNCSA School of Design and Production seeks an Associate Professor of Costume Design who will also serve as Director of Costume Design beginning in August 2026.

• Full-time faculty member who is highly skilled and motivated
• Teaches in both BFA and MFA curriculum tracks
• Collaborates with the Director of Costume Technology and other faculty, and works across the broader campus community
• Maintains and updates costume area practices in collaboration with all costume faculty
• Engages in costume project planning with relevant faculty throughout the creative process
• Maintains efficiency and quality standards within the costume production process; mentors and advises design teams and student team leaders; supervises fittings; ensures excellence in productions
• Determines student design assignments with fellow costume faculty
• Oversees distribution of show production budgets; mentors student designers in the purchasing process
• Collaborates with all costume faculty on student learning outcomes and curriculum across costume-related development
• Teaches Costume Design and collaborates with the faculty team to deliver courses in Costume Rendering (digital and traditional), Costume Production, Costume History, Costume Crafts, etc.
• Maximizes student learning and portfolio building through costume design coursework and realized productions
• Assists in the admissions process by interviewing and selecting students for admission to the costume programs
• Acts as Arts Advisor to Undergraduate and Graduate students
• Continues professional activity within the entertainment industry
• Participates in shared governance and service to the Costume programs, School of Design and Production, and the University
• Attends faculty and production meetings and contributes through committee service
• Additional duties as assigned by the Dean of Design and Production

• Required: Bachelor Degree
• Minimum of five years’ experience in the entertainment industry
• Evidence of work that incorporates and supports diverse storytelling and viewpoints
• Evidence of potential for a high quality of teaching
• Evidence of responsible stewardship of resources
• Eligible for the rank of Associate Professor

• Master of Fine Arts Degree, or other terminal degree
• United Scenic Artists member or comparable union membership
• Experience in both the academic classroom and in the professional marketplace
• Mentoring and supporting the development of early career costume designers
• Professional experience in multiple areas of the entertainment industry (theatre, opera, film,…