Job Description

Department of Arts, Culture and Media

University of Toronto Scarborough

STUDIO ART

POSTING DATE: July 2, 2025

CLOSING DATE: July 23, 2025

The following Sessional Lecturer positions are available in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media for the

Fall 2025

academic session. In accordance with the Collective Agreement, this posting is being sent as an email notification to all applicants in the Department's Applicant Pool: all Sessional Lecturers who are teaching for the Department during the current academic year or who have taught for the Department since September 1, 2005, and all persons who have submitted an application within the past twenty-four months. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with 14:12.

Application Process

Applications must be submitted electronically, with a cover letter outlining your qualifications and a current curriculum vitae to Professor ME Luka, Acting Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough using the online application system found at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/webapps/cupehiring/dept/acm/app/sl

All applicants to Studio Art positions must also include the following materials combined into a SINGLE PDF: a 1 to 2 page cover letter highlighting your qualifications for the position, a current CV, 5 to 10 samples of recent artistic work relevant to the position, 5 to 10 samples of student work if available, and the names/contact information of 2 to 3 references.

Salary:

in accordance with the current CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement, the stipend rate for a half course (Y, F or S), inclusive of vacation pay, will be:
Sessional Lecturer I: $9,820.50
Sessional Lecturer I - Long Term (Six or more years as SL I): $10,510.04
Sessional Lecturer II: $10,510.04
Sessional Lecturer III: $10,760.28Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Sessional Dates (excluding Exam period):

F courses: Sep. 2 - Dec. 2, 2025

Note

: all positions involve completion of any course grading not finished by December 31, 2025 for F courses.

Course Code & Description

Section/

Time

Dates of Appointment

Estimated Enrolment

Estimated

T.A. Hours

Duties

Qualifications

VPSC92H3F Theory and Practice: Art and Materials

This open-media studio-seminar will focus on material-based art practices and critical approaches to the material world. This course will explore topics such as sustainability and Indigenous reciprocity, feminist understanding of materials, the politics of labour, and the role of technology. This course will also examine key concepts such as craft, form, process, time, and dematerialization and consider the role that technique, touch, and participation play in the transformation of material. Students will conceive, research, and develop art projects that address contemporary approaches to material-based art making.

LEC 01

In-person

WE 10-1

September 1 - December 31, 2025



20



N/A



All normal duties related to the design and teaching of a university credit course, including preparation and delivery of course content; participation in Studio's exhibitions and guest lecture opportunities on campus; development, administration and marking of assignments and final portfolios; calculation and submission of grades; holding regular office hours. Applicant to work closely with permanent faculty.


Teaching experience at the university level. Must have expertise teaching interdisciplinary art practice at an intermediate level and experience with pedagogy pertaining to critical approaches to making art using a wide range of materials and approaches to materiality. The candidate must have expertise teaching current artistic theory and contemporary artistic work related to the course theme. Instructor must have an active artistic practice with a substantive engagement with the course topic and extensive exhibition history.


This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.


The position(s) posted above is (are) tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolments.


Courses must meet a minimum enrolment of more than 50 in order to qualify for TA hours