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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Art/New Genres

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Position overview

Position title: Professor of New Genres

Position description

The Department of Art, in the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, invites applications for a tenure/tenure-track (full/assistant/associate) position in New Genres. The candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate art students in the New Genres area, whose expansive curriculum has included, but is not limited to: video, experimental animation, film, installation, performance, sound, text, movement and choreography, organic materials and processes, and community engagement. The candidate will advise students working across a range of artistic disciplines. We seek candidates engaged in experimental and innovative artistic practices driven by social and/or ecological concerns. A BA or BFA is required at time of application.

We seek candidates committed to public higher education who will actively contribute to the Department and University and to creating and supporting an equitable community of students, staff, and faculty that is diverse in cultural, ethnic, racial and other backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. We actively encourage assistant-level applications. To ensure full consideration, candidates should apply by November 21, 2022.

The School of the Arts and Architecture and the Department of Art are committed to building a diverse faculty, staff, and student body in response to the changing population and educational needs of the City of Los Angeles, State of California, and the nation. The UCLA Department of Art aims to empower students to reshape their worlds through critical inquiry and transformative creativity. Committed to equity and inclusion in art, it attracts diverse, talented, and highly motivated students who are encouraged to engage society's challenges and to envision change. We welcome applicants who share this vision and will challenge us to develop it further.

The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment as well as a commitment to addressing all forms of academic misconduct, UCLA conducts targeted employment reference checks for finalists to whom department or other hiring unit would like to extend formal offers of appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists’ current and prior places of employment to ask where they have been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University’s Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UCLA requires all applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” into RECRUIT as part of their application. If the applicant does not include the signed authorization to release information with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete. As with any incomplete application, the application will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the department or other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) considered for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to targeted reference checks.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

-BA or BFA (required at time of application)

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  • Cover Letter - Cover letter including narrative biography (up to 1000 words).

  • Statement of Research - Statement of Research / Artist Statement (up to 1000 words).

  • Statement of Teaching - Statement of Teaching including description of approach and experience mentoring/advising underrepresented student groups (up to 1000 words).

  • Statement on Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - An EDI Statement describes a faculty candidate’s past, present, and future (planned) contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion. To learn more about how UCLA thinks about contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion, please review our Sample Guidance for Candidates and related EDI Statement FAQ document.

  • Reference check authorization release form - Complete and upload the reference check authorization release form

  • Portfolio - (PDF - max. size 50MB). Creative work should be submitted in a single PDF, curated specifically for this job search, which may include up to 20 images with captions and descriptions. For time-based work, installation or performance documentation please include Vimeo hyperlinks to excerpts, with the cumulative total for all excerpts not exceeding 15 minutes. If appropriate, you may additionally include Vimeo hyperlinks to up to three full-length works (no time limit) in your portfolio, and up to 10 pages of writing samples or artist book excerpts. (Please check your final PDF to ensure hyperlinks work.)

  • Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness - Evidence of teaching effectiveness, including two sample syllabi and, if available, teaching evaluations.

Reference requirements
  • 3 required (contact information only)

Please include mailing address, email address and phone number of three professional references (letters of recommendation not required at the time of application).

Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF07780

Help contact: elsehenry@arts.ucla.edu

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy.

Job location

Los Angeles, CA