Department of Art and Public Policy

Department of Art and Public Policy
Job Posting for Assistant/Associate Arts Professor

The Department of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University seeks a full time faculty member to be appointed at the rank of Assistant/Associate Arts Professor to join us in the Fall of 2012 to teach new forms of activism, community-based practice, alternative organization and participatory leadership in the arts.
The department explores the myriad links between art and society to examine the ways in which artists bring their art into the world, engage with civic issues, articulate their voice in the public realm. We offer a Master’s Degree in Arts Politics which treats, in an activist key, the nexus between the politics that art makes and the politics that make art. All Tisch Freshmen take a year-long core curriculum administered by the department that uses essay writing to develop a public voice for artistic citizenship. Elective courses are open to graduate and undergraduate students across the university.
The existing strengths of the department lie in conceptual and experimental approaches to arts, global, transnational arts movements, and sociological understandings of the art world. Our graduate program and elective courses attract students from diverse communities who have a keen interest in developing the arts professionally but from a community perspective and in doing work that is relevant to concerns regarding multiculturalism, cultural and socio-economic justice and equality, and expanded access to the arts from among traditionally under-represented populations.
We seek someone who can work on the links between the rich range of cultural expression in the arts and the enormous wealth of community traditions and audiences. Key to this link between arts and audiences is an understanding of how organizations, institutions, policy, funding-models, and the larger socio-economic surround impact the mutual development of diverse artists and communities. Always an issue, recent financial constraints have further strained already lean organizations, making the need for innovative and inventive responses for the arts all the more urgent.
The successful candidate will be a professionally accomplished, intellectually acute, strategically articulate artist/scholar who has worked with diverse communities and developed inspiring creative and organizational responses to the present dilemmas. This person will be rigorously trained, productive of an ongoing body of work of distinctive achievement, pedagogically adventurous and imaginative in their approaches to curricular development and devoted to teaching both graduate and undergraduate students. An M.F.A. or Ph.D. is preferred along with demonstrable evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Information regarding the Department of Art and Public Policy can be found at:
http://app.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html
To apply submit cover letter, resume, and list of three references to:
Art and Public Policy Faculty Search
tisch.arpo@nyu.edu
Applications will be reviewed commencing December 1st and continue until the position is filled. Finalists will be asked to submit further materials.
The appointment carries a five-year renewable term and a 2/2 teaching load.
NYU encourages applications from women and minorities.