Lecturer - Digital Painting and Drawing
Position overview
Position title: LecturerApplication Window
Open date: July 14, 2025
Next review date: Friday, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Friday, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.
Position description
Position: The Department of Art at the University of California, Riverside, invites applications for a part-time Lecturer (pre-six) position to teach a lower-division undergraduate studio course titled Digital Painting and Drawing: Painting Without a Trace during the Fall quarter of the 2025–2026 academic year. Candidates should possess a strong understanding of digital painting and image-making technologies, and their relationship to contemporary art practices.
Course Description: Painting Without a Trace introduces students to the computer as a painting tool for creating works of contemporary art. Positioned at the intersection of painting, photography, and printmaking, the course encourages students to explore digital technologies in a painterly mode. Emphasis is placed on experimentation and cross-medium translation — from software-based mark-making to physical paint, photographic capture, AI image generation, and back across these axes of artistic practice. The course supports conceptual development alongside technical skill and visual literacy.
About the Department: UCR’s Department of Art offers a wide range of courses across both traditional disciplines—such as painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture—and contemporary practices, including intermedia, video, digital art, and theory. With flexible curricular paths and individualized advising, students develop technical proficiency alongside conceptual and critical skills. Through hands-on practice and historical analysis, they move from mastering media to articulating a distinct artistic position.
The Department of Art at UC Riverside is committed to fostering and manifesting the ideals of true diversity, equal opportunity, and inclusion. We also commit to the telos of the University, which is to strive to better understand the world and discover its great truths, while exposing and correcting injustices that may arise. We celebrate all the forms diversity takes intellectually, socioeconomically, and culturally, and we will continue to be fundamentally inclusive, encouraging our students to use their minds and actions in the most productive and empowering ways.
Starting Date: The first day of Fall Quarter is Monday, September 22, 2025
Salary: Based on 100% annual salary of $70,977.00. Approximately $7,886.33 per course (pending final budget approval)
All appointments are contingent upon the appointee being able to provide, in accord with Federal law, evidence of authorization to work in the United States
This position is contingent on funding and enrollment.
Internal Candidates are given first consideration.
Duties: The successful candidate will teach one course, Digital Painting and Drawing: Painting without a Trace, Fall 2025.
Qualifications: • MFA or equivalent terminal degree in Studio Art or related field, or at least two years of exhibitions, performances, or screenings that reflect a national and/or international profile.
• One year of studio-based art practice teaching experience at the college or university level
• A strong understanding of digital painting and image-making technologies, and their relationship to contemporary art practices
• Active exhibition record
Applicants holding a Ph.D. or who are ABD (with MFA) are encouraged to apply.
Application Procedure: Please provide cover letter, CV, Statement of research and/or creative practice, Statement of teaching philosophy, A single PDF that includes examples of the applicant's work (e.g.) writing samples, published articles, lecture documentation, images, or video links, as applicable), one sample syllabus, recent teaching evaluations (if available), names and contact information for three references. (Please note: the department will solicit letters of reference through APRecruit only for shortlisted candidates at a later stage in the process. Material shuld be uploaded using UCR's on-line application system: https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02119.
Applicants who use Interfolio should use the feature that allows letters to be uploaded directly into AP Recruit. Applicants can input an Interfolio-generated email address in place of their letter writer's email address. Interfolio refers to this as “Online Application Deliveries.” The following link at Interfolio shows how to set up the feature: https://product-help.interfolio.com/
Review of application will begin August 8 and continue until position is filled. To ensure full consideration, application and supporting material should be received by August 15, 2025.
Department Contact Person: Professor Brandon Lattu: brandonl@ucr.edu
Department: https://art.ucr.edu/
Qualifications
• MFA or equivalent terminal degree in Studio Art or related field, or at least two years of exhibitions, performances, or screenings that reflect a national and/or international profile.
• One year of studio-based art practice teaching experience at the college or university level
• A strong understanding of digital painting and image-making technologies, and their relationship to contemporary art practices
• Active exhibition record
Applicants holding a Ph.D. or who are ABD (with MA) are encouraged to apply. The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. UCR is a member institution of the American Association of Universities (AAU) as well as the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU). A commitment to the UCR mission (https://apro.ucr.edu/mission-statement) is a preferred qualification.
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Statement of Research and/or Creative Practice
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Single PDF that includes examples of the applicants work
Sample Syllabus
Recent Teaching Evaluations (if available)
- 3 required (contact information only)
3 references (letters of recommendation upon request)
Help contact: smithj@ucr.edu
About UC Riverside
The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. UCR is a member institution of the American Association of Universities (AAU) as well as the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU). A commitment to the UCR mission (https://apro.ucr.edu/mission-statement) is a preferred qualification.
We seek to hire scholars who will both advance our research directions and effectively educate our undergraduate and graduate students, while also engaging with University and Professional service activities. Research and teaching statements that are included with application materials are opportunities for candidates to share knowledge, experience, and goals that support the mission of UCR. For more information on UC’s criteria for successful faculty, refer to the Academic Personnel Manual (APM) 210 - Criteria for Appointment, Promotion, and Appraisal (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-210.pdf).
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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 under state or federal law. It is the policy of the University of California to undertake affirmative action and anti-discrimination efforts, consistent with its obligations as a Federal and State contractor.
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.
As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.
“Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer. A Misconduct Disclosure Survey will be completed through Truescreen, which is the vendor that administers this process for the campus.
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