Continuing Education Instructor - Oil Pastels
- Employer
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Location
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Date posted
- Dec 20, 2024
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Arts, Art, Design & Graphic Arts, Administrative, Academic Affairs, Adult & Continuing Education Programs
- Employment Type
- Part Time
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Job Details
CE Overview
RISD Continuing Education functions within the larger context of RISD, an institution with an unparalleled reputation for producing highly-skilled, successful, and internationally renowned creative practitioners. With more than 100 years of expertise nurturing critical making, thinking, and innovation in art and design we facilitate personal and professional development by engaging students in sustained exploration and learning in the creative disciplines. With a commitment to centering inclusivity, diversity and equity in executing key responsibilities, RISD Continuing Education instructors plan, organize, teach, and provide feedback to promote and direct student learning in keeping with the institutional learning-centered values and in a manner that meets essential competencies of artists and designers.
Job Description
RISD Continuing Education instructors plan, organize, teach, and provide feedback to promote and direct student learning in keeping with the institutional learning-centered values and in a manner that meets the essential competencies of an artist and designer. Our instructors respond to students in a timely manner and communicate with the discipline and division via college-provided tools and resources. We welcome instructors whose teaching experience addresses historically underrepresented communities.
The successful candidate should be prepared to teach online courses to a diverse group of students from a range of disciplines. Interpersonal and leadership skills, clarity, generosity, and creativity in both personal work and teaching are essential. Candidates should be prepared to develop culturally diverse syllabi for studio and seminar courses and lead classes and critiques that model constructive, inclusive discussions that encourage students to grow creatively and intellectually.
We are looking for an instructor whose specialty is in painting with oil pastels.The successful candidate will be able to deliver their expertise to beginners and experienced artists alike through online delivery in this asynchronous course. You will be teaching the essential application techniques, such as blending, mixing colors, and creating textures unique to oil pastels. Leading adult learners online to explore new concepts and experiment with different types of subjects, including portraits, landscapes, and still life's will be the core of this course while allowing the individuals to discover how to use oil pastels to make both soft and bold strokes, and express their creativity in exciting ways.
Required Knowledge/Skills/Experience
- Bachelor's Degree required
- A track record of professional experience at companies
successfully doing related work, and/or a robust, creative,
intellectually and critically engaged design or studio practice, as
evidenced by recognition in publications, commissions, exhibitions,
awards and/or collaborative projects
- Teaching experience, including the ability to create syllabi
and lesson plans, and how to tie those to learning outcomes.
- Ability to develop and implement diverse teaching and learning
for different learning styles and skill levels of students and to
respond to the needs of learners from a variety of educational
backgrounds in a multicultural environment
- Analytical, evaluative, and critical thinking skills
- Ability to accept and act upon constructive feedback from
course and classroom evaluations by students and staff
- Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational
skills
- Ability to develop syllabi and lead classes and critiques that
model constructive, inclusive discussions, and that encourage
students to grow creatively and intellectually
- In-depth knowledge of oil pastels
- Teaching experience in a collegiate or adult education setting
that addresses underrepresented communities
- Online teaching and course content; syllabus, learning
outcomes, tutorials, assignments and other components such as
intuitive navigation, lively discussions, and meaningful feedback
as part of a successful online class.
- MFA preferred or equivalent in established professional
practice in area of study
- Lifelong learning orientation with demonstrated interest in
learning about new developments in their area of study
- Ability to empathically relate to a wide range of student
perspectives and maturely handle interpersonal issues that may
arise
- Resume, including a URL link for your professional portfolio if
applicable
- Statement of interest
Remote
Work Schedule:
Now hiring for the Summer 2025 semester, course dates: 6/16/2025 - 7/27/2025
Union
No
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please upload all required documents.
The successful candidate will be required to meet our pre-employment background screening requirements.
RISD recognizes diversity and inclusivity as fundamental to its learning community and integral to an art and design education. We welcome candidates whose experience has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. RISD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
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Company
RISD is a college and museum founded in 1877 in Providence, RI. Today 2,620 students engage in 44 full-time bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, supported by a committed faculty and worldwide network of more than 31,000 alumni.
By cultivating expansive and elastic thinking, RISD equips artists, designers and scholars to generate and challenge the ideas that shape our world.
Company info
- Website
- http://www.risd.edu/
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