Job Description
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 Lawrence’s 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.
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.
Review of applications will begin on March 13. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Requirements include a strong exhibition record and at least one year of undergraduate teaching experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Posting Number: F00179P
Open Date:
Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Salary: $21,000 - 28,000
Special Instructions to Applicants
To apply, visit https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2312
Sarah Lawrence College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has as one of its goals the recruitment and retention of a racially and culturally diverse administration, staff and faculty. To that end, every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals.
The college is located in southern Westchester County, 25 minutes by train from midtown Manhattan, NYC. For further information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our website at https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.
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Sarah Lawrence College is committed to sustaining a diverse and inclusive learning, working, and living community. This requires students, faculty, administration, and staff who reflect the diversity of our society; that people from different backgrounds and with different views be prepared to treat one another with mutual respect and honest curiosity so that they can engage and learn from one another; and that diversity infuse all aspects of the life and mission of the College. These conditions enable a genuine liberal arts education, in which the presence of people with different experiences and ideas, engaged in critical dialogue, overcomes ignorance and builds trust and knowledge.
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