School of Art seeks Director and Tenure-Track Faculty Member in Painting/Printmaking

The Yale School of Art is pleased to invite applications for a Director and Tenure-Track Faculty Member in Painting and Printmaking:

The Yale University School of Art invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty appointment in Painting and Printmaking to begin July 1, 2023. Candidates must hold an MFA or equivalent degree. The candidate will assume the Directorship of undergraduate studies for a designated period, while remaining active professionally and teaching in a rigorous academic environment.

We seek a working artist with a primary focus on painting, or its expanded category. The candidate should have an active and engaged exhibition record, as well as a strong technical background and conceptual grounding in the medium and history of painting. A minimum of 3 years college-level teaching and service experience, and an ongoing, excellent, and dynamic art practice is required. A knowledge of the discourses around contemporary art and an ability to address works across disciplines is necessary. A fully engaged presence on campus is required as well as a willingness to actively participate in service and collaboratively shape the future of both the undergraduate art major at Yale College in addition to the Painting/Printmaking department at the School of Art.

As the director of undergraduate studies, the ideal candidate should have a vision and passion for undergraduate education in studio art in the liberal arts/research university context; be a problem-solver who can present ideas about how to keep the Art major moving forward after assessing the status of the undergraduate area; be an empathetic and experienced advisor to students from diverse backgrounds working in various mediums. A record of educational service that diversifies the access, content, and methods of teaching is a crucial criterion for consideration. The candidate will act as the primary liaison between the School of Art and Yale College and should be enthusiastic about strengthening collaborations between graduate and undergraduate students.

The successful candidate will teach both graduate and undergraduate level courses, advise and mentor graduate and undergraduate students, oversee theses, participate in critique sessions, serve on School and University committees, and actively contribute to and participate in the School’s vibrant co-curricular programming.

The review of applications will begin on January 15, 2023. We will accept applications until the position is filled.

Additional Information about SoA for Prospective Applicants

The mission of the Yale School of Art is to provide students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in the practice of an array of visual arts media within the context of a liberal arts university. As a part of the first institution of higher learning to successfully integrate a studio-based education into such a broad pedagogical framework, the Yale School of Art has a long and distinguished history of training artists of the highest caliber. A full-time faculty of working artists in conjunction with a diverse cross-section of accomplished visiting artists collaborate to design a program and foster an environment where the unique talents and perspectives of individual students, both undergraduate and graduate, can emerge and flourish.

https://www.art.yale.edu/about/people/faculty-and-staff

The School of Art offers an undergraduate major in Art to 20-25 majors per class year. Undergraduate students in the Art major develop a critical and practical understanding of the visual arts and design through a studio-based curriculum that organically blends practice with critical thinking and art historical precedents, concentrating in one of five areas. The DUS serves as the principal advisor to and advocate for the undergraduate Art majors, liaising with colleagues at the School of Art and in the Yale College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Deans’ offices.

http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/subjects-of-instruction/art/

https://www.art.yale.edu/about/study-areas/undergraduate-studies

Painting/Printmaking is currently a department of 43 graduate students, nine full time faculty members, and a diverse array of part time faculty members. Instruction in the Painting/Printmaking program is rooted in the investigation of painting as a unique discourse with its own complex syntax and history. Within this setting, the program encourages diversity of practice and interpretation, innovation, and experimentation. Our faculty members are practicing artists who work primarily but not exclusively in painting and its expanded category, with active and engaged exhibition records, as well as strong technical backgrounds and conceptual grounding in the medium and history of painting. As a faculty body, we aim to encompass knowledge of the discourses around contemporary art and embody an ability to address works across disciplines, as our student population often pushes disciplinary boundaries.Above all else, we see graduate education as a unique time to take risks and experiment with one’s practice through self and collective criticality, independent from an intensifying market dominance.

As a leading graduate institution of contemporary art and design, The Yale School of Art recognizes its responsibility, privilege, and opportunity to contribute to culture and creativity in society at large. The School commits to uphold principles of anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion as integral to its mission, and will work towards achieving an educational environment that rejects inequity, advances social justice, and amplifies historically underrepresented voices.

The current School of Art MFA population identifies as 62% students of color, the highest percentage among Yale’s professional schools. 18.25% identify as gender non-binary, non-confirming, or transgender, and the international student population is 29%. Yale College has also welcomed an increasingly diverse student body. The incoming Yale College Class of 2022 set several new admissions records. Eighteen percent of first-year students are the first in their families to attend a four-year college. One in five members of the Class of 2022 receives federal Pell Grants for low-income students. We are proud that first-year enrollment among students receiving Pell Grants has nearly doubled over the past six years, and first-year enrollment among first-generation college students has increased more than 75 percent during the same time.

We aim to realize a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable future for our School that assures accountability to our espoused values and principles of belonging for all students, faculty, staff, and alumni. This mission-critical unit plan requires Yale to confront violent histories upon which our institution continues to benefit.

https://belong.yale.edu/

Core Faculty

• Meleko Mokgosi, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking
• Maria De Los Angeles, Critic, Assistant Director in Painting and Printmaking
• Beverly Acha, Critic
• Rachelle Dang, Critic
• Anoka Faruqee, Professor; Associate Dean
• Matt Keegan, Senior Critic
• Byron Kim, Senior Critic
• Sophy Naess, Senior Critic
• Alexander Valentine, Critic; Printshop Coordinator
• Anahita Vossoughi, Critic; Associate Director of Digital Fabrication

Appointed Faculty (2022-2023)

• Cassandra Xin Guan, Critic
• Kristen Hileman, Critic
• Hasabie Kidanu, Lecturer
• Greg Parma Smith, Lecturer
• Halsey Rodman, Critic
• Kern Samuel, Lecturer
• Karin Schneider, Critic
• Carly Sheehan, Critic
• Ryan Sluggett, Lecturer
• Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Critic

Visiting Critics (2022-2023)

• Lisa Dorin, Critic
• Rosario Guiraldes, Critic
• Melanie Kress, Critic
• Miguel Luciano, Critic
• Paulina Pobocha, Critic
• Jennifer Pranolo, Critic
• Ronny Quevedo, Critic
• Thea Quiray Tagle, Critic

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