Department Summary

The Department of Art and Art History, established in 1911, offers BA, BFA, MA, and MFA degrees and is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Here's what we offer to prospective students: award-winning faculty and an outstanding technical and administrative staff; a 'best-in-the-west' combination of facilities for creating, exhibiting, and researching art across various media; a commitment to fostering creative and critical thinking; opportunities to innovate across different media; and a friendly and supportive community.

Brief Description of Duties

The Department of Art and Art History at San José State University is searching for part-time Pictorial faculty to run rigorous skill-based courses, encourage critical thinking and iterative concept development for various levels of our course offerings. We seek candidates with an active and contemporary art practice and a desire to have a voice in curriculum development. The appointee will teach a broad range of courses in the Pictorial Art area including but not necessarily limited to:

• Two-Dimensional Design, Color, Beginning and Representational Drawing, Expressive and Advanced Drawing, Beginning through Advanced Painting and possibly Life Drawing and Figure Painting as well as some aspects of printmaking.
• It is desirable for the candidate to have some familiarity with digital processes.
• In addition to regular teaching assignments, the appointee may share curriculum development and graduate and undergraduate student review responsibilities.
• The candidate must demonstrate awareness and experience understanding the needs of a student population of great diversity – in age, abilities, cultural background, ethnicity, religion, economic background, primary language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and academic preparation – through inclusive course materials, teaching strategies and advisement.
• Faculty shall organize all their classes within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).
• All classes must be offered and meet as scheduled throughout the entire semester or term, in the mode assigned and listed in the schedule of classes (i.e., asynchronous, synchronous, bi-chronous, in-person, or hybrid).

Required Qualifications

• Terminal Degree (MFA)
• Two years teaching 2-D fundamentals, drawing, painting, or printmaking at the university level.
• A pictorial arts background with the ability to teach a wide variety of two-dimensional courses including, dry and wet drawing mediums and oil and water based painting mediums including watercolor.
• The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to teach all levels of 2-D classes through a solid foundation in visual, analytical, and communication skills.
• The candidate should have an understanding of, and abilities in perceptually based drawing and painting as well as the concerns of process-oriented abstraction, painting and drawing in the expanded field, and familiarity with digital pictorial processes.
• Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience.

Preferred Qualification

• Teaching experience at the university level with two years of teaching in Painting and Drawing and/or Printmaking at the university level.