Hashinger Hall Post MFA Artist-in-Residence at the University of Kansas

The Hashinger Hall Post MFA Artist-in-Residence is a live-in role designed to foster daily visibility and informal interaction between students and visual artists. The chosen artist will be expected to pursue their creative practice, facilitate activities to bring art into the daily lives of undergraduate students in the residence hall, and teach one class a semester in the Department of Visual Art. The artist is provided an apartment located on the first floor of Hashinger Hall. Two studio spaces are provided: one is open to the student community on the main level of Hashinger Hall. The other is a private studio in the Visual Art Department.
Hashinger Hall is the residential center for the creative arts. The community is open to all students, but attracts many students who are pursuing studies in the arts. The facilities include a black-box theatre, music practice rooms, a dance studio, a textiles room, a painting studio, a resource library and computer lab, and several small meeting areas.
The students are highly involved in the programmatic aspects of their community including: Spring Arts Week, two annual theatre productions, and frequent open mic nights.

Requirements:
• MFA or equivalent in fields that comprise the KU Department of Visual Art’s studio areas or related fields (Ceramics, Expanded Media, Metalsmithing & Jewelry, Painting/Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture and Textiles/Fibers) by the time of appointment.
• An emerging artist with an active and engaged creative practice and exhibition record
Preferred:
• An interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary approach to studio practice and teaching is strongly desired.
​• A desire to engage with the larger community of the Department of Visual Art Faculty and Graduate Students, the School of the Arts and the University of Kansas and surrounding community.

Position Expectations: Visual Art Department:
• Be engaged in an active studio/creative practice.
• Service activities within the Department of Visual Art
Hashinger Hall
• Informal interaction with students
• Serve as a resource to hall staff
• Attend Hashinger Hall staff meetings
• Facilitate monthly activities/ programs in the Residency
• Assist with Hashinger Hall Spring Arts week In exchange:
• A furnished, one-bedroom apartment w/ utilities included.
• A KU Cuisine Dining Plan for the entire duration of their residency (Inclusive of all dietary preferences/needs)
• Landline telephone, cable television, and free internet access.
• The Department of Visual Art will provide a paid lecture position ($4700 per class, with one class guaranteed per semester)
• An additional studio located on campus but not at Hashinger Hall.
• Access to a wide variety of studios, tools, technologies and shops in the Department of Visual Art with faculty permission including, but not limited to: Woodshop, Metal fabrication and casting facilities, ceramic facilities with wide variety of kilns, printmaking shops (Intaglio, Lithography, Screenprinting, Papermaking) technology lab (laser cutters, large-scale digital printing, professional sound and video equipment, computer production studio lighting, digital photo) textile and weaving studios, jewel and metalsmithing shops.
• An Exhibition of work in the newly renovated Art and Design Gallery at the Culmination of the residency.
• The possibilities of teaching additional classes if desired.
• This is a 2018-2019 academic year commitment and is renewable upon agreement by both parties. As such, the Department of Student Housing will provide the Hall apartment and its amenities and meal plan for use only during the 2018-2019 academic year, to extend no further than May 25, 2019.

Via SlideRoom:
• Letter of Interest in Artist-in-Residence position
• Artist Statement
• List of three references
• CV
• 15-20 images of recent artwork or up to 5 minutes of time-based media in an excerpt reel, or appropriate combination of materials.


Applications are due April 15, 2018

https://visualartku.slideroom.com/#/login/program/41943

For additional information, please contact [email protected]