The Department of Graphic Design, in the Division of Architecture and Design, at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), invites applications for full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence in fall 2025. Rank will be dependent on professional status and teaching experience.

RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution's social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college students.

The Schiller Family Assistant/Associate Professorship is part of an ambitious and progressive vision for art and design education. The ideal candidate is an elastic thinker and maker who contributes to—and draws energy and inspiration from—a vibrant, creative, and experimental community of learners. The candidate will thrive in a wide-ranging, multi-faceted teaching environment in a department that values the fundamentals of graphic design—form, typography, and communication—while simultaneously expanding its definition with an emphasis on more inclusive and globally-minded approaches to visual communication. Applicants are expected to offer courses that broaden traditional art and design curricula while contributing to reshaping pedagogies, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students in core studios, seminars, and studio electives of their own design. The ideal candidate will be an active practitioner whose work extends across diverse media, integrating new, evolving tools and computational technology, while engaging with critical perspectives on making.

We are looking for a colleague who can join the fabric of the department through inclusive teaching and departmental and college-wide service. Candidates should demonstrate an interest in community and departmental leadership by being advocate, mentor, and advisor to our students, with the option to choose to serve as a rotating department head in the future.