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Department of Art, UC Irvine
Temporary Lecturer Positions in Art
Academic Year 2024-2025

The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine, seeks a dynamic group of practicing artists and theorists to teach the courses listed below next year as temporary lecturers. Art Department faculty are committed to bringing the voices of emerging and established artists to engage with UCI’s diverse population of undergraduate students and support their creative development.

The successful candidates will exhibit excellence in artistic practice, teaching, and impact within the field of contemporary art. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong and/or potential contributions to the University’s core values of diversity, equity and inclusion. We encourage applicants to indicate all courses which they are interested in teaching.

Winter Quarter 2025 (January 2, 2025 - March 27, 2025)

ART 20A. Basic Drawing I. Encourages an investigation of the premises and limits of drawing, primarily, but not inevitably, as a two-dimensional medium. Includes slide presentations and discussions of the historical uses of a wide range of drawing. Class is scheduled on MW 9:30am-11:50am.

Spring Quarter 2025 (March 26, 2025 – June 19, 2025)

ART 30A. Basic Painting I. Examination of the fundamental components of painting: color, form, space, surface, scale, and content. Studio work, slide presentations, and critiques of student work. Class schedule TBD.

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About the Department of Art: A heterogeneous group of artists and scholars, the Art Department values inquiry and experimentation over specific ideologies and intellectual methods. The faculty’s research and instruction investigate how art is made in contexts ranging from the personal to the collective, from art institutions to broader definitions of the public. The department-affiliated University Art Galleries present public exhibitions of critically engaged art and artists from both local and international art communities. The department’s curriculum emphasizes that art is not a freestanding category, but instead takes shape through its intersection with other creative practices, knowledge formations, and social domains. The Art Department has a commitment to cultivating racial justice through artistic production. Current faculty engage in a broad range of artistic practices, with strong emphases on interdisciplinary practice, experimental materiality, performance art, queer theory, post-colonial critique, and political intervention.
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Qualifications: Candidate must have an MFA (or equivalent) or PhD, and at least 1 year of teaching experience (or equivalent experience) at the college or university level preferred.

Salary: approx. $7,507 per class.

All classes above will be taught in-person. Applicants must submit the following:

1. A Cover Letter explaining interest and specifying which course(s) you would like to be considered for appointment (address letter to “Search Committee”);
2. Names and contact information for 3 references;
3. Curriculum Vitae;
4. Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement;
5. Copies of 1-3 most recent syllabi; and
6. Copies of 1-3 most recent teaching evaluations.
7. Optional: Link to a personal website OR portfolio of up to 20 JPEG images or up to 5 minutes of video on a Google Drive link.

The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC anti-discrimination policy.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.