Faculty Searches
The Visual Arts Department at Bowdoin offers a variety of studio courses across a range of media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and digital media. Artistic process is emphasized within the department, encouraging students to use exploration and experimentation as a vessel for growth as they progress through the program.
Visual Arts Learning Goals
- Develop skills of direct observation of the world in order to examine the relationship between seeing and knowing.
- Embark upon a range of material explorations in order to gain technical proficiency and facility with multiple means of artistic production.
- Master the formal elements of visual design in order to articulate ideas and to develop an individual artistic language.
- Independently develop and be self-critical of one’s creative production.
- Engage in critical discourse and extend it to one’s daily life.
- Identify the concerns and motivations informing one’s practice and articulate their significance within global historical and contemporary context.
- Locate one’s work within the larger conversations defining the liberal arts.
Current Searches
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Drawing & Painting
Please visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu after August 1, 2023 to apply.