Adjunct Faculty - Arts (Ceramics/Film/Painting/Sculpture)

About Baltimore City Community College

Founded in 1947, Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) is comprehensive, urban institution accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The College’s campus is located in West Baltimore and courses are offered throughout the City. With its broad range of degree, certificate, and continuing education programs, affordable tuition, and extensive outreach, BCCC offers educational opportunities to the citizens of Baltimore City and throughout the state of Maryland. BCCC serves over 7,500* students annually, providing credits that transfer to four-year colleges and universities as well as workforce training leading directly to job placement. The College is proud of the fact that over 50 nations are represented within the student body.

Description/Job Summary

BCCC invites qualified candidates to apply for one or more of our adjunct faculty positions to teach an Arts course in Ceramics, Film, Painting, or Sculpture.

For Ceramics, the course will cover basic materials, techniques, and vocabulary associated with clay work. The emphasis is placed on hand-building with an introduction to the pottery wheel. Instruction should include lecture, studio work, and demonstrations. The instructor should have experience/training in Throwing, trimming, Slip Carving, or Sgraffito, Bisque Firing, Glazing, Slip Trailing, Smoking or Pit Firing, and/or maybe Salt Firing.

For Film, the courses will cover basic materials, techniques, and vocabulary associated with film. The emphasis is placed on history of cinema from silent films to the present. Instruction should include lectures, film discussion, viewing and written activity. The class focuses on movies-a combination of big business, cultural myth, and technical artistry—which provide cogent insight into modern culture and its beliefs, values, and morals. These insights are explored through the course. Important films are viewed and then followed by oral or written activity.

For Painting, the courses cover basic materials, techniques, and vocabulary associated with painting. The emphasis is placed on drawing from both the naturalistic and creative approaches. Instruction should include lectures, studio work, and demonstrations. The instructor should have experience/training in line, form, proportion, composition, color, texture and perspective which are applied in several media to varied subject matter, including still life, interior, landscape, and the figure.

For Sculpture, the course follows-up three-dimensional experiences in both traditional and contemporary approaches. Instruction should include lectures, studio work, and demonstrations. The instructor should have experience/training using ordinary materials such as clay, plaster, wood, paper, fiber, and found objects. Modeling, carving, and construction techniques are studied using these materials

Adjunct faculty appointments are made on a semester-by-semester (as needed) basis.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Teach assigned courses, which may include day, night, or weekend courses.
• Facilitate instruction using slides, lectures, discussion, gallery and museum visitations, written and appropriate art studio projects.
• Assess and grade students’ work in a timely and professional manner
• Establish and promote an effective learning environment that maximizes student learning.
• Submit required college reports and forms in a timely manner.
• Participate in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment (SLOA) Process
• Utilize a course syllabus for each course, following established institutional guidelines.
• Meet with and advise students either before or after class or by appointment, electronic communication, or other appropriate methods.
• Attend meetings, training, and orientations as required.
• Maintain levels of professional knowledge and expertise.
• Communicate effectively with students as well as the division office
• Fulfill responsibilities for other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Education:

Experience:

• One (1) year of experience teaching in the respective field (Ceramics/Film/Painting/Sculpture)
• Strong foundation of art pedagogy
• Extensive knowledge of art culture

Preferred Qualifications

BCCC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

BCCC is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment. We expect every member of the BCCC community to do their part to cultivate and maintain an environment where everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.

Decisions related to hiring, compensating, training, evaluating performance, or terminating are made fairly. We examine our unconscious biases and take responsibility for always striving to create an inclusive environment that makes every employee and candidate feel welcome

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