Fwd: Position Notices

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> From: "Edu-News" <[email protected]>
> Date: November 17, 2004 4:32:22 PM EST
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Position Notices
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> Position Notices:
>
> Two Assistant Professors:
> Painting/Drawing, & New Genres
> Position Notices:
>
> Two Assistant Professors: Painting/Drawing, & New Genres
>
> Two tenure track positions to begin Fall 2005. The School is seeking
> practicing artists with growing national and international stature;
> requirements include evidence of excellence in a developing
> professional exhibition record and a minimum of two years teaching
> experience. MFA degree preferred. The artists will teach undergraduate
> courses as well as participate in the MFA graduate program. At the
> graduate level, responsibilities would include the ability and desire
> to work with graduate students from all media, teach graduate critique
> seminar on a rotating basis and participate on the MFA graduate core
> faculty and to participate in the evolution and growth of the MFA
> program.
>
> Painting/Drawing: Specific undergraduate responsibilities will include
> teaching existent courses in painting/ drawing, as well as potentially
> developing new courses that fuse these areas of practice with other
> forms and media. Applicants must have knowledge of technical,
> aesthetic and conceptual issues within historical and contemporary
> painting/ drawing practices. All serious applicants must possess a
> demonstrated ability to teach undergraduate students technical as well
> as related critical discourses, and painting theory concurrent with
> contemporary and historical studio practice. The position offers the
> opportunity to join the art school and further develop the bond and
> interaction between drawing and painting within an innovative
> undergraduate art program, as well as within other areas of the
> curriculum.
>
> New Genres: The position will bridge the school's Sculpture and
> Intermedia programs and create an area of study that merges sculpture,
> video, and new genres. Specific undergraduate responsibilities will
> include teaching existent courses in sculpture and video or hybrids
> thereof, as well as developing new courses that potentially fuse these
> areas of practice with other forms and media. Applicants must have
> knowledge of technical, aesthetic and conceptual issues within
> historical and contemporary art practices, and possess a demonstrated
> ability to teach the technologies and related critical discourse and
> theory surrounding dimensional expression and time-based production.
> The position offers the opportunity to guide the initiation and
> development of New Genres offerings within the art school and to
> further develop both the relation and interaction between the
> Sculpture and Intermedia areas as well as other areas within the
> curriculum.
>
> Send letter of application, curriculum vita, related sites, SASE,
> lists of three references, and/or DVD, CD, slides of recent work to
> the appropriate committee; Painting Search Committee or New Genre
> Search Committee, University of Southern California, School of Fine
> Arts, Watt Hall 104, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292. Deadline January 14,
> 2005. AA/EOE/WMA. No electronic submission accepted.
>
> The University of Southern California School of Fine Arts is
> positioned within one of the nation's premiere private research
> universities, and it is centrally located in Los Angeles, an
> internationally recognized region for contemporary art and culture.
>
> The University of Southern California is proudly pluralistic and
> firmly committed to providing equal opportunity for outstanding men
> and women of every race, creed and background.