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Application Close Date/Time: Monday, January 15th, at 6PM CT 

This position is a Full-Time, Tenure-Track, Parkland Academic Employees (PAE) appointment.
Salary is commensurate with experience. 

Full-time Faculty teach a full-time load as per the Parkland Academic Employees (PAE) bargaining agreement.  They advise and mentor students and participate in governance of their departments and the college. The Full-time Ceramics/3D faculty teaches a full range of Art studio courses which may include Ceramics, 3-D Foundations, and/or Sculpture, as well as the general education art courses.

Robust benefits, including medical insurance with no monthly premiums, dental, life, disability, retirement plans, flexible spending, dependent care, EAP, work/life balance with generous paid time off, and tuition waiver

Applicants must submit:

• An online employment application
  
• Cover letter that addresses candidate's interest in the position and an overview of their teaching experience.  
  
• Resume or CV
• 20 examples of candidates work, including name title, size, media, and completion date. 
• Copy of official transcripts from the institution where you received your highest degree. If hired, certified official transcript is required.

For more information and to apply, visit www.parkland.edu/careers

Essential Job Functions:

• Teach Ceramic classes covering wheel throwing, hand construction, glazing and firing for high and low temperature clay at the beginning, intermediate and advanced level.
  
• Integrate history of ceramics, contemporary ceramics, and craft into coursework and project development.
  
• Teach Art General Education classes.
  
• Teach clay processes for utilitarian and sculptural expression.
  
• Be skilled in the use of throwing wheels, slab rollers, gas & electric kilns, glazes, and raw materials.
  
• Teach mold making, fabrication, some digital fabrication as well as modeling.
  
• Have skills in carving, welding, and other media.
  
• Loading and firing electric and gas kilns, mixing glazes.

Minimum Requirements:   

• Master of Fine Arts (MFA) or Master of Arts (MA) in Studio Art with an emphasis in Ceramics or other three-dimensional art discipline OR master's degree in a closely related field with at least 18 credit hours in graduate ceramic courses.
  
• Must successfully complete a criminal background check with fingerprinting.
• Demonstrated expertise in wheel-thrown and wheel-based ceramic techniques.
• Demonstrated expertise in ceramic hand-building/sculpture techniques.
• Demonstrated expertise in ceramic firing equipment and technology, theory, and methodology.