Assistant Professor of Ceramics

The Art and Art History Department in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences at St. Catherine University invites applications for a full-time, professional practice ceramics faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 2025.

Our Art and Art History Department, in collaboration with our campus art gallery, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, strives to reflect and celebrate the diversity of St. Catherine University and its many neighbors in the community. We are a small and collaborative department committed to challenging ourselves and our students to think critically about the roles that visual art plays in contributing to, interrupting and promoting healing from systems of injustice.

Responsibilities:

• We seek a candidate who is active in the field of ceramics and an enthusiastic, anti-racist educator with a strong desire to build the Ceramics program and foster excellence in our students while teaching courses to art majors and students in other disciplines.
• Secondary expertise in drawing or another medium is appreciated but is not required. The successful candidate should maintain a personal ceramics practice and be ready to join the Department in program and curriculum development that takes responsibility for learning about and dismantling the ways in which racism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression have conditioned our areas of practice, research, and pedagogy.
• The faculty member will teach a total of six sections (24 credits) per academic year that will include ceramics, wheel throwing, 3-D design, and our department seminar course, Building a Creative Life in rotation.
• The faculty member will also teach in our Core Curriculum (The Reflective Woman or Global Search for Justice).
• Candidates may also suggest more advanced topics courses that appeal to students from a variety of majors. Applicants should also be willing to engage in interdisciplinary teaching.
• Additional responsibilities include mentoring and advising students in the Ceramics discipline, participating in student portfolio reviews, advising Clay Club, overseeing and managing the sculpture and ceramics studios which include both electric and gas kilns, and other duties determined in collaboration with Department colleagues and the Arts & Humanities Cluster Chair.
• Continued engagement in developing coursework and pedagogies that engage a diverse student body. In challenging times that threaten the rights of people of color and indigenous peoples, women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and disabled persons, we seek applicants who recognize all that our students have to offer and who will live the St. Catherine University mission to lead and influence. We seek a colleague who can help us uniquely position our graduates to become changemakers and social justice advocates.

Salary Range: $52-57,000

Employees at St. Kate’s feel a deep connection to the University’s Mission and Vision, and they live their values at work. Benefits available to full-time employees include:

• Fourteen (14) paid holidays and paid “gift” days when the University is closed.
• Free tuition for employees and reduced tuition for their families after one year of service
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 403b retirement plan access
• Accrued sick time
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

Specific information on all of our available benefits for full-time employees can be found HERE.

The salary range listed reflects a good-faith estimate of what we reasonably anticipate to pay for this position, based on market data and internal equity, at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, skills, and other relevant factors. St. Catherine reserves the right to modify or adjust compensation depending on University needs.

St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a comprehensive Catholic university and home to one of the nation’s largest colleges for women, with associate and graduate programs for all genders. Founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1905, the University integrates liberal arts and professional education within the Catholic traditions of intellectual inquiry and social teaching. Committed to excellence and opportunity, St. Catherine enrolls students in certificate, associate, baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral programs in traditional day and evening/weekend/online formats.

Minimum Qualifications

• MFA with a consistent record of active engagement in the discipline
• Broad knowledge of Ceramics
• Ability to articulate contemporary, historical and conceptual issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Teaching experience beyond the graduate level
• Secondary expertise in drawing
• Evidence of successful college teaching effectiveness
• Interest in Ceramics as a vehicle for social justice
• Strong writing, speaking and interpersonal skills

EEO Statement

St. Catherine University is an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to inclusion reflects the central value of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet to “love of neighbor without distinction” and provides a learning and working environment that is enriched by the diversity of all our members. Individuals of religious, racial, ethnic, gender identity, nation of origin, or disability groups that have traditionally had less representation in higher education are encouraged to apply. Should you need an interview accommodation please contact us at hr@stkate.edu or 651-690-6565.

Application instructions for FACULTY

Visit St. Kate Careers to apply. Three references and successful completion of a background check will be required for employment.

Candidates who meet the minimum requirements will be asked to submit 10-20 personal work samples in a PDF at a later date.

St. Catherine University
2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
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