Posting Number: R0005384
Location: Portland Campus
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Position Summary:
Application Deadline: Application review begins December 15, 2023
Salary: Starting at $60,000 plus benefits
Start Date: Fall 2024
Pacific Northwest College of Art is the oldest art & design college in Oregon. It began as the Portland Art Museum school in 1909 and operated independently until its merger with Willamette University in 2021. PNCA is now the second largest college within the University. Willamette University provides rigorous education in the liberal arts, arts & design, law and management through its undergraduate and graduate programs and lifelong learning programs. Teaching and learning, strengthened by scholarship, creative practice and service, flourish in a vibrant campus community. Pacific Northwest College of Art prepares students for a life of creative practice and facilitates that through Core Pillars:
Studio Practice
Professional Practice
World View
Anti-Racist Pedagogy
PNCA’s commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
As a learning community, we value, respect, and appreciate differences-in gender, sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, class, and age. We strive to create a safe and supportive environment that is enriched by variety in voices, work, and perspectives. We know that we are a better community of learners and educators when we have space for a multiplicity of worldviews and experiences. Thus, diversity and inclusion at PNCA are crucial to our intellectual and aesthetic inquiry.
Guided by the principles of ethics and mutual respect, PNCA’s policies and procedures strive to ensure equity and social justice within our community of students, educators, and staff. A platform for experimentation and expression in the arts, PNCA is also a laboratory for critical reflection and dialog that nurtures better, more informed, more critically engaged citizens while it educates emerging artists and designers. An important aspect of our curriculum is building an awareness of and critical culture around issues of power and privilege in order to decolonize our curriculum and our world.
Position Summary
Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University (PNCA) is seeking an energetic, inclusivity-minded, and committed educator and professional to teach courses and contribute to the ongoing development of the undergraduate illustration program at the college. PNCA openly acknowledges that diversity is a critical component in achieving a creative and innovative work and learning environment, and PNCA is committed to equity and social justice. We welcome candidates who possess a demonstrated worldview and cultural competency to support teaching and mentoring undergraduate students of varied backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, social identities and gender expressions.
The underlying philosophy of the PNCA Illustration Department is experiences and encounters. We prepare our students for creative collaboration by exploring the intersection of art and design with an emphasis on the balance between technique and conceptual thinking. Learning, risk-taking and creativity are essential to the program as is an understanding of evolving marketplaces, entrepreneurship, and client-based culture. We focus on this professional practice so that our students are prepared to enter the job market in a number of creative industries and arts and design sectors. We believe that at the core of a long and sustained creative career is a focus on our students’ unique voices and the distinctly personal visual language they each utilize in art making. This is emphasized in every facet of PNCA’s illustration curriculum from the first studio course to a final, year-long thesis project.
PNCA Illustration has a dedicated curricular pathway that allows each student to thoroughly investigate the multiple areas of illustration as an art form. At the 200 level, students focus on technical literacy with classes centered around drawing, painting and making in all forms of analog and digital media. 300 level classes focus on the more expansive conversation of conceptual literacy where visual storytelling, visual poetry, and design thinking are thoroughly explored. At the 400 level students cultivate cultural literacy and create a strategy for their personal vision to take form outside the walls of the college.
We are inviting applications for a full-time faculty member who understands the immense value visual language plays in modern culture, who is committed to developing a diverse illustration curriculum that both envisions the future of illustration and all its applications while acknowledging the importance of its past, who is willing to contribute to the success of the program on a regional, national, and global level while fostering a pedagogy informed by critical thinking, diverse and inclusive perspectives, and innovative practices that are specific to the ever-changing needs of our student population. The applicant should be able to demonstrate technical and critical skills in a wide range of illustration genres, have a mastery with a number of new and emerging technologies, a strong studio practice, and strong academic inquiry skills.
The primary professional responsibilities of instructional faculty members are: teaching, creative practice within the field of illustration, research/scholarship, and service to the college and larger university. These responsibilities generally include: developing and enhancing curriculum, advising students, participation in campus and university-wide committees, maintaining office hours, working collaboratively and productively with colleagues, building external partnerships and industry relationships, and maintaining a vibrant creative practice in the region and beyond.
Overview of Duties
Minimum Qualifications
Qualified Candidate will have several Preferred Qualifications
The successful candidate will be committed to the academic success of all of our students and to an environment that acknowledges, encourages, and celebrates diversity and differences. To this end, the successful candidate will work effectively, respectfully, and collaboratively in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings. In addition, the successful candidate will be ready to join faculty, staff, students, and administrators in our university’s shared commitment to the principles of engagement, service, and the public good.
All University positions require that candidates submit to a criminal conviction record check prior to hire. Conviction does not automatically preclude candidates from being hired. Nature of conviction will be considered relative to the duties of the position.
You will need to upload the following documents as part of your application materials in the “My Experience” section labeled Resume:
Application Deadline: Application review begins December 15, 2023
Salary: Starting at $60,000 plus benefits
Start Date: Fall 2024
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Apply online at https://willamette.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/willametteuniversityjobs/job/Portland-Campus/Assistant-Professor–Illustration_R0005384
Believing that diversity contributes to academic excellence and to rich and rewarding communities, WU is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff and student body. We seek candidates, particularly those from historically under-represented groups, whose work furthers diversity and who bring to campus varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds.
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Believing that diversity contributes to academic excellence and to rich and rewarding communities, Willamette University is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff and student body. We seek candidates, particularly those from historically under-represented groups, whose work furthers diversity and who bring to campus varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds.
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