Oberlin College & Conservatory Applicant Portal

About

Founded in 1833, Oberlin is a personal four-year, selective liberal arts faculty close to Cleveland, Ohio and can also be house to an impressive Conservatory of Music. Together, the 2 divisions enroll roughly 2900 college students. Oberlin College was the primary faculty within the US to make interracial training and co-education central to its mission. The College continues to view a various, equitable and inclusive instructional surroundings as precious to the excellence of its educational program. Among liberal arts faculties, Oberlin is a nationwide chief in efficiently putting graduates into superior research applications.

Oberlin is located on the outskirts of Cleveland, combining a comfy small-town ambiance with the cultural facilities of a serious metropolis. The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cinematheque, Karamu House, a number of instructional establishments, and scores of eating places, bars, music venues, and theaters add to the cultural and academic alternatives of the area.

The Oberlin Studio Art division provides a dynamic platform for college students searching for intensive studio coaching mixed with the mental rigor of a liberal arts curriculum. Oberlin artists are pondering artists, deeply engaged in educational and inventive pursuits. Studio Art courses concentrate on each technical and conceptual growth throughout a number of dimensions: 2D programs think about shade, composition, design, and flat media; 3D programs emphasize spatial transformation and object-making; and 4D programs tackle time-based media, digital instruments, and technology-driven observe. By the time college students graduate they’re ready to work throughout media and assume critically concerning the roles of artwork within the twenty first century.

Along with longstanding BA applications throughout the Practicing Arts, Oberlin College just lately launched a 5 yr dual-degree BA+BFA in Integrated Arts. The BFA brings collectively all the practising arts applications at Oberlin―Studio Art, Theater, Dance, Cinema & Media, Creative Writing, and Musical Studies―for an built-in fifth yr expertise at Oberlin’s new Park campus in Cleveland. This distinctive BA+BFA program prepares college students for interdisciplinary collaboration {and professional} observe via internships at arts organizations within the space.

The division provides programs in:

• Photography (analog and digital)
• Painting, drawing, and shade idea
• Reproducible media (screenprint, lithography, intaglio, aid, monotype, Riso, digital)
• Design and illustration
• Sculpture (woodworking, fiber, mold-making and casting, 3D modeling and digital fabrication)
• Installation and efficiency
• Media arts (sound, video, interactive/networked artwork)
• Interdisciplinary Advanced and Capstone main curriculum
• College-wide First-Year Seminar program

Responsibilities

The incumbent will educate a complete of 4 programs in Photography & Digital Imaging throughout the Studio Art Department, and one writing-intensive course within the First Year Seminar program.

The excellent candidate:

• Has a complete understanding of time-based practices, and might educate historic and up to date approaches in Photography, together with analog and digital instruments.
• Demonstrates broad and experimental methods to photographic methodologies, together with multidisciplinary practices that bridge two-, three-, and four-dimensions.
• Can educate a writing-intensive, inventive, educational course within the First Year Seminar program.
• Brings enthusiasm and ability to a collaborative division.
• Shows proof and/or promise of a big skilled studio artwork observe and exhibition document.
• Has expertise managing a studio classroom, finances, and pupil staff.
• Contributes to the interdisciplinary mental lifetime of the division and the broader faculty neighborhood.

Qualifications

Among the {qualifications} required for appointment is MFA diploma (in hand). Candidates should display curiosity and potential excellence in undergraduate educating. Successful educating expertise on the faculty stage is fascinating. Oberlin College values range, fairness and inclusion. The incumbent will deliver understanding of or expertise working with underrepresented and numerous educational populations. Oberlin is focused on candidates who can contribute to the excellence of the educational neighborhood via their analysis, educating, and repair. Oberlin recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes no matter race, faith, shade, nationwide origin, gender, gender id, sexual orientation, incapacity, age, veteran’s standing, and/or different protected standing as required by relevant legislation.

Special Instructions to Applicants

All software supplies should be submitted electronically via Oberlin College and Conservatory’s on-line software course of at An entire software will likely be comprised of 1) a Cover Letter describing your educating, scholarship, mentorship, and repair, detailing any connections to supporting an inclusive studying surroundings; 2) a Curriculum Vitae; 3) an unofficial graduate transcript; 4) a press release (or statements) in your educating philosophy and experience in range, fairness, and inclusion; 5) A analysis assertion about your creative scholarship; 6) a PDF portfolio (or hyperlink to on-line portfolio that meets the precise necessities) with not more than 20 examples of non-public work and 20 examples of pupil work, together with descriptions; and seven) Letters of Reference from three recommenders.* All software supplies should be submitted electronically via Oberlin College and Conservatory’s on-line software course of

at: https://jobs.oberlin.edu/

*By offering three letters of reference, you agree that we could contact your letter writers.

Review of functions will start on February 6, 2026, and can proceed till the place is stuffed. Completed functions obtained by the February 6, 2026 deadline will likely be assured full

consideration.

Questions concerning the place may be addressed to Studio Arts Program Coordinator, Jamie

Jacobs Overstreet, jjacobs@oberlin.edu, 440-775-8181, or Chair of Studio Art, Kristina Paabus, kpaabus@oberlin.edu, 440-775-5176.