Posted on November 7, 2024
Place Description:
The College of South Dakota is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ceramics for a nine-month appointment starting in August 2025. This place includes instructing ceramics at each undergraduate and graduate ranges inside a dynamic BFA/MFA Artwork program. The candidate will interact in analysis, instructing, and repair actions based on the rules of the South Dakota Board of Regents (SDBOR).
Job Title: Assistant Professor in Ceramics (Tenure Observe)
Division: Division of Artwork
Establishment: College of South Dakota
Program: Nationally Acknowledged BFA/MFA Artwork Program
Appointment: Full-time, 9-month tutorial 12 months
Begin Date: August 2025
Duties:
• Instructing 18 contact hours per semester
• Instructing foundational by way of superior programs in ceramics together with studio, seminar, and lecture codecs.
• Instructing essential considering, drawback fixing, modern idea, and rising ideas in ceramics.
• Advising and mentoring college students, contributing to pupil recruitment and retention.
• Actively taking part in division, school, and college committees and actions.
• Pursue a present inventive scholarship/analysis agenda in ceramics and stay actively engaged within the skilled artwork subject.
• Operation and maintenance of ceramic studio gear, together with fuel, electrical, and wood-fired kilns, pottery wheels, clay mixers, and associated instruments, with tasks additionally encompassing sustaining provides and scheduling pupil assistants within the ceramic studio.
• Skill to contribute to a vibrant departmental visiting artist program.
• Working with various college students, college, and employees.
Required {Qualifications}:
• MFA in ceramics or a intently associated subject.
• Expertise in a number of ceramic processes; together with however not restricted to hand-building, wheel-throwing, mold-making/slip-casting, historic and modern methods, and new-media functions.
• Information of glaze chemistry, kiln firing procedures, and ceramic gear.
• Established exhibition and/or scholarly document.
• Skill to show essential considering, problem-solving, modern idea, and rising ideas in ceramics.
• Information of operation and upkeep of ceramics studio.
• Efficient written and verbal communication abilities.
• Robust interpersonal abilities.
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
• College-level instructing expertise with three years of college-level instructing expertise most well-liked however not required.
• Skill to take care of a vibrant visiting artist program in ceramics.
• Proof of neighborhood constructing inside and outdoors of the division.
• Dedication to constructing a robust ceramics program and establishing an MFA Ceramics program.
• Work collaboratively with different disciplines.
• Proof of grant writing.
Rank and Wage:
Rank: Assistant Professor
Wage: $48,000 – $53,000; Commensurate with {qualifications} and expertise
Advantages: Full normal advantages package deal
Software Course of:
Functions will likely be accepted till the place is crammed, with full consideration given to accomplished functions acquired by January 3, 2025.
Candidates are required to use on-line at https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/41247 and may embrace:
• Letter of software
• Curriculum vitae
• 20 labeled digital photos of private work
• Artist web site URL and/or social media presence
• 20 labeled digital photos of pupil work
• One consultant course syllabus
• Instructing philosophy
• Artist assertion
• Contact data for 3 skilled references
Objects that can not be transferred digitally needs to be despatched to:
Danielle Heeren, Workplace of the Dean
Ceramic Search Committee
School of High-quality Arts
The College of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Road, Vermillion, SD 57069
Questions: Danielle.Heeren@usd.edu
Concerning the Division
The Division of Artwork is housed within the School of High-quality Arts on the College of South Dakota and presents each the BFA and MFA levels in Artwork. USD is a neighborhood of roughly 100+ undergraduate majors, 10 graduate college students and 10 full-time artwork college, acknowledged for a robust studio curriculum, visiting artist program, and achieved alumni. Our services embrace studio lecture rooms in ceramics, graphic design, portray, images, printmaking, drawing and sculpture. Our ceramics services embrace:
• Massive, open ceramic studio with 25 Pacifica electrical wheels, extruders and a slab curler.
• Devoted clay mixing room with air flow, vacuum deairing gear, pugmill/clay mixer.
• Glazing space with a glaze spray sales space
• Indoor fuel and electrical kilns with hood air flow. Outside wooden, raku and fuel soda kilns.
• NASAD accreditation.
The College of South Dakota: Positioned in southeast South Dakota, USD is the flagship liberal arts establishment for the State of South Dakota (slightly below 10,000) and consists of the School of High-quality Arts, School of Arts and Sciences, Colleges of Enterprise, Schooling, Legislation, Drugs and Graduate Faculty. Details about the Theatre Division could also be obtained on our web site at www.usd.edu/artwork.
USD is dedicated to fostering a dynamic and welcoming working and studying environments for all. USD supplies equal employment alternatives to all staff and candidates for employment with out regard to ideological, political, or sectarian opinions or views; or race, shade, creed, faith, intercourse, ancestry, incapacity, nationwide origin or some other issue protected by relevant federal, state, or native legal guidelines. USD is dedicated to the rules of free expression and encourages the well timed and rational dialogue of subjects in an surroundings that’s intellectually and ideologically various.