Full-Time Faculty Position in Illustration and Interactive Media, School of Art and Design

Overview

Full-Time Faculty Position in Illustration and Interactive Media, School of Art and Design. Location : New York, NY. Category : Faculty. Posted On : Tue Aug 5 2025.

The Illustration and Interactive Media Department seeks a full-time, tenure-track faculty member who is an experienced illustrator / visual artist actively engaged in creating imagery in a range of specialized disciplines and platforms that include editorial and commercial print and online media.

The ideal candidate will be a highly creative artist and educator whose work and teaching reflect a strong understanding of fundamentals, including anatomy, composition, color theory, form, and space. The faculty member will be expected to teach and lead both in their specialties and foundation courses. The faculty member will work collaboratively to contribute and maintain a high level of creativity, academic excellence, and pedagogical and technological innovation.

In the conceptual process, the candidate will teach through demonstration and by example from their professional experience, the techniques of research, exploring multiple narrative and editorial directions, developing visual solutions, and determining an aesthetic approach that best communicates the ideas they choose or are commissioned to convey. As a practicing professional and teaching artist, the ideal candidate understands the importance of embracing all student perspectives that inform their work.

Specific Competencies Sought As Related To The Position

Globalism

• Demonstrate an understanding of how illustrators, as visual communicators, can educate and influence public perception and beliefs that influence global issues with national and international impact.
• Demonstrate an understanding of world and national history, as well as current events, as a means of context and perspective for effective decision-making in the role of visual communicator and illustrator.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of the benefits and opportunities of networking with the New York City Creative District and incorporate distinguished guest speakers and class field trips to local museums, galleries and other educational resources as means of enhancing class material and student learning experiences.
• Demonstrate ability to develop student awareness in the classroom environment for all groups.
• Demonstrate the ability to share extensive knowledge of art history in both Western and non-Western contexts, as well as current practices, approaches, and movements in the contemporary art world.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the global nature of today\'s illustration discipline.
• Demonstrate an awareness of professional, ethical and social responsibility.

Instructional Design

Learning Enrichment

Professionalism

Technology

Job Requirements

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Additional Information :

Please note, all offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of the background check process.

Salary

The final starting salary and appointment rank will be based on education level and cumulative experience; Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Salary Schedules pg s. 73-74.

The College reserves the right to select one or more candidates after having been duly reviewed and presented to the President in conformance with the provisions of Article 15 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Benefits

For a full list of FIT benefits, visit our benefits webpage.

Visa Sponsorship : This position may be eligible for visa sponsorship by the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement : FIT is firmly committed to creating an environment that will attract and retain people from a range of backgrounds. FIT is committed to prohibiting discrimination and to providing equal opportunity in employment. Applications from veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged.

Physical Requirements And Work Environment : The working conditions will be in classroom, lab, and / or office space. Occasional lifting up to 10 lbs may be required.

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