The Department of Art & Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,New Brunswick, New Jersey invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Design at the level of Assistant Professor to begin Fall 2024. The interdisciplinary department fosters and integrates a full and dynamic range of studio art and design practices and seeks an individual who pursues studio practice in design grounded in scientific, aesthetic, political or social research, informed by critical perspectives in contemporary art and design.

Leveraging its geographic placement between New York City and Philadelphia, the Department of Art & Design is committed to supporting inclusivity, difference, equity, and excellence in a vibrant pedagogical and artistic community situated in one of the country's most diverse research universities. Art & Design encourages applications from underrepresented groups in academia and the arts, including but not limited to individuals of color, diverse gender identities and expressions, first-generation college and higher education students, designers with disabilities, and those with non-traditional and exceptional pathways to teaching and the arts. The successful candidate will demonstrate the cultural and critical competencies to support and engage this rich multiplicity of artistic practice and student life and will have interests that align with a commitment to public education and the arts.

The search committee is particularly interested in designers working within computational, experimental, collaborative, interdisciplinary and emerging fields in design. In addition to teaching, other duties associated with this role include: student recruitment, curriculum development, mentoring, overseeing graduate assistants, and serving on departmental, school and university committees.

Candidates should have a robust, creative, intellectually and critically engaged design practice as evidenced by recognition that may include publications, commissions, exhibitions, biennial participations, awards and/or collaborative projects. The successful candidate should be committed to teaching and engagement in an interdisciplinary art and design department within a large, diverse, public research university.

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Housed in one of the leading public research universities on the East Coast, the Department of Art & Design is home to approximately 400 students, Art & Design offers 5-degree programs, and BFA undergraduate concentrations in Sculpture, Printmaking, Painting, Drawing, Media, Design, Photography, and Interdisciplinary Practice. The department recently launched an MFA in Design program focused on interdisciplinary studio practice and research driven design. The department's historical grounding in innovation, interdisciplinary inquiry, and critical reflection was shaped by its key involvement in the Fluxus movement, and later in the initiation of the first nondisciplinary MFA program in the country. The department is also home to Rutgers Print Collaborative, which brings renowned artists to campus to collaborate with students on print editions.

Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars with academic programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art & design, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its roughly 1100 students, of whom slightly more than half are students of color, reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. The school is housed within Rutgers-New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation's eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia.

Additional information is available at the school website: .

Mason Gross School of the Arts is deeply committed to the pursuit of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access and especially encourages applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and other individuals who belong to groups that have been historically underrepresented or marginalized within higher education and the arts. Also see the Rutgers Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: .

This position is a full-time, ten-month academic appointment with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2024. For best consideration, apply by January 10, 2024. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

For questions, email design.search@mgsa.rutgers.edu or Alexis White, Academic and Faculty Affairs Administrator at awhite@mgsa.rutgers.edu.

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