Visual and Performing Arts Education Part-Time Lecturer - Arts Ed 103
The University of California, Los Angeles
About this position
Position Overview
Position title: Lecturer Salary range: Annual Salary Range $70,977-$199,722. Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. See table #15.
Application Deadline
Open date: July 7, 2026 Next review date:Thursday, Aug 6, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Thursday, Aug 6, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.
Position Description
The Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental series of courses designed to introduce undergraduates to the key issues and methodologies in the field of arts education for multiple publics and to a broad range of possible career paths including teaching artistry, K-12 classroom teaching, museum education, socially-engaged arts practice, creative arts therapies, and arts advocacy. VAPAE is committed to creating a diverse pool of candidates for potential part-time teaching positions in arts education during each academic year. Currently, VAPAE is interested in meeting qualified candidates to teach its Arts Ed 103 - Socially Engaged Pedagogy in the Arts course. Arts Ed 103 Course Description: Students are in contact and conversation with active community-based artists and youth workers regularly utilizing goals, principles, and practices of socially engaged art. Based on readings and investigations, students research and write one case study on one arts site that is currently utilizing socially engaged art practices and pedagogies. Theoretical and experiential components provided for students from all arts disciplines to explore tactics and strategy of socially engaged art practice and pedagogy through a variety of approaches that may include readings, visual and audio documentation, discussion, research papers, oral presentations, and relevant guest speakers. Arts Ed 103 Course Goals: Students develop, practice, and implement methods of popular education as a liberatory practice, with the goal of raising critical consciousness and empowering their students and/or communities to participate creatively in the transformation of their world. Students synthesize the revolutionary political possibilities of socially engaged art with the practice of radical pedagogy to formulate their own guiding positions. As a class, they engage with a current social justice issue that affects their communities and collaborate with those communities to devise creative projects and solutions to address the issue. Students critically analyze and disrupt the limitations of their personal contexts within the academy, arts and education, striving for more accessible and effective communication through collaborative in-class projects and a discursive final project. Minimum Qualifications: MA required, MFA or PhD preferred; relevant professional experience Annual Salary Range $70,977-$199,722. Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. See Table #15 Appointments contingent on availability of funding. For more information about this program visit the VAPAE Website. Program: https://www.vapae.arts.ucla.edu/
Qualifications
Basic qualificationsMA required at time of application. Preferred qualificationsMFA or PhD preferred and relevant professional experience.
Application Requirements
Document requirementsCurriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. Cover Letter Proposed Course Syllabi - Applicants may submit course proposals and accompanying syllabi to teach the selected course. Statement of Teaching (Optional) Reference check authorization release form - Complete and upload the reference check authorization release form Reference requirements 3-5 required (contact information only) Please submit the names and contact information only of minimum three individuals who could be contacted at a later date regarding your application. Apply link:https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11132 Help contact:katrina21@arts.ucla.edu