Type: Adjunct/Part-Time
Salary: $21,000 – 28,000
Deadline: March 12, 2025
Online Application: https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2312
Visual and Studio Arts – Performance Art Guest Faculty
Rank: Guest Faculty
Tenure Information: Non-Tenure Track
Job Description
The Visual and Studio Arts program at Sarah Lawrence College invites applications for a one-year, half-time guest appointment in Performance Art, beginning Spring 2026, with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years. We seek candidates who are passionate about teaching performance art within a liberal arts framework to a diverse group of students with varying levels of experience. Applicants should have a practice and teaching approach that engages with contemporary performance ideas, methods, and materials. Ideal candidates will be inventive, rigorous, and experimental, deeply committed to their own art-making, and have at least one year of undergraduate teaching experience.
The successful candidate will teach one 5-credit Performance Art studio course each semester, capped at 15 students, and meeting on Tuesdays and Fridays from 3:05 to 5:30. They will also teach a 2-credit “concept class” during one semester, that explores a historical and transdisciplinary aspect of performance art (meeting times are TBD). In addition to regular coursework, students in the 5-credit course will complete a significant independent project, a hallmark of Sarah Lawrences Conference Project model. Candidates should demonstrate an ability to foster interdisciplinary exploration and engage students at all skill levels.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Compensation listed for this position is for a half-time guest faculty position and will be contingent on teaching experience.
Your application should include:
- Cover letter – In your cover letter, please provide descriptions of three ideas for a performance art class. In addition, address ways in which you encourage students to critically engage with issues of socially constructed identities, marginalization, privilege, power, and inclusion.
- CV
- Teaching Philosophy
- Portfolio PDF or online link containing ten examples of your recent work and ten examples of student work.
- References – Include the names and contact information for three references.
