Assistant or Associate Professor, Film/Animation/Video
Rhode Island School of Design
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Posted: 12-Oct-24
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Internal Number: 2343
Position Description:
The Department of Film/Animation/Video in the Division of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design invites applications for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence 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.
Area of Focus: Animation
Animation is an ineffable connection between discrete images that results in a sensation of life. It shapes and creates time. It also requires an implicit collaboration between maker and viewer. Animation's materials are vast – almost every kind of object and substance. These materials include time itself, movement, and space. At RISD, faculty and students continually augment not only their skills and knowledge of animation, but also work to expand animation itself.
The RISDFAV Department seeks candidates with deep knowledge of Animation and the ability to transform that knowledge into creative work, innovative teaching, curricular development, and engagement with our multilayered department.
Required Qualifications:
Active research in animation as an ever-evolving field; expanding its practice, techniques, and applications
MFA in Animation or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
Practice centered in animation demonstrated by personally-authored works
At least 5 years of teaching experience at the college level
Ability to teach across a range of animation studio courses, from sophomore through senior level, including hand-made and digital animation skills, and the ability to contextualize that knowledge both critically and historically within the larger field of art practice
Preferred Qualifications:
Valued Research Interests Include – but are not confined to one or more of the following:
both hand made and digital animation techniques
sound design for animation
stop motion animation
3D CGI softwares
artificial intelligence and machine learning as it pertains to animation
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), founded in 1877, is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. Enrolling about 2000 undergraduates and 400 graduate students from across the United States and 55 other countries, RISD offers 16 undergraduate majors and 16 graduate majors, and is ranked annually by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top art and design schools in the United States. RISD’s rigorous education encourages creative experimentation and intellectual risk-taking, challenging students to question their approach to art making through critical thinking. There are over 90,000 works of art in the RISD Museum, which houses a collection of fine and decorative art objects. The first public galleries opened in 1893. The RISD Library is one of the oldest independent art college libraries in the country with more than 150,000 volumes and 380 periodical subscriptions which offer unusual depth and richness in the areas of architecture, art, design, and photography. The RISD campus is contiguous with the campus of Brown University and the two institutions share social, academic, and community resources.RISD recognizes diversity and inclusivity as fundament...al 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.