Faculty Position in Fashion Design Art Area, School of Art and Design

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Location: New York, NY Category: Faculty Posted On: Tue Aug 5 2025

Job Description :

The School of Art and Design seeks a full-time faculty member in the Fashion Design Art Area. The successful candidate will be an experienced fashion industry designer with a strong background in both design and leadership. Their expertise should focus primarily on concept development and the visual communication of fashion design through both hand-drawn and digital methods.

The candidate should be proficient in fashion illustration techniques, capable of producing original design sketches, and skilled in creating cohesive design collections. They should demonstrate a strong interest in the field of fashion design studies, with a particular emphasis on visual creativity and expression.

Additional qualifications include familiarity with current industry best practices across a range of methodologies, a solid understanding of market trends, and experience with emerging technologies in fashion design.

Responsibilities will include teaching core foundational courses in the AAS Fashion Design program, using both traditional and innovative instructional methods. The candidate will also teach in one or more BFA specialization areas, which may include Sportswear, Special Occasion, Knitwear, Childrenswear or Intimate Apparel. The faculty member will contribute to the School of Art and Design by participating in administrative duties, as required.

Beyond classroom teaching, the faculty member is expected to contribute to the Area, Department, School, and College through curriculum development, committee service, and the pursuit of projects aligned with their interests in fashion design. These projects should emphasize visual creativity and support the advancement of the discipline.

It is expected that, by the time of tenure, the selected candidate will have established or built upon their personal areas of professional strength. These areas may include, but are not limited to: research in sustainability or inclusive design; fashion show presentations or exhibitions; curriculum development; grant writing; industry collaboration; or other scholarly or creative work relevant to the field of fashion design.

Specific Competencies Sought As Related To The Position

Globalism

• Possess an ability to think globally and demonstrate an awareness of the impact of design education, industry and the profession.
• Communicate and convey to students the ethical implications of design decisions affecting the global environment and people.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of design in the context of broader social, cultural, economic, scientific and technological forces.
• Engage in global cross-disciplinary discourse in the discipline of fashion design.

• Demonstrate ability to utilize technology and electronic information to deliver course materials to students.
• Utilize instructional variety in order to accommodate students of different learning styles, abilities.
• Demonstrate ability to cultivate and foster critical thinking, problem solving, information literacy and creativity.
• Demonstrate implementation of instructional methodologies and practical applications that enrich students' learning experience through innovative pedagogies, research, and/or creative scholarship.
• Demonstrate execution of socially responsible and sustainable design projects that instruct and inspire all students
• Demonstrate experience in developing or teaching a curriculum that addresses diversity in design.

• Embrace the role of faculty as facilitators and mentors of information and knowledge.
• Possess a passion for learning with the ability to inspire interest, curiosity and creativity in students.
• Demonstrate responsiveness to industry changes and/or practices, including technology, and the ability to incorporate evolving changes in a progressive curriculum.

• Demonstrate a continued engagement in creative and/or scholarly work in the discipline of fashion design.
• Understand established and emerging fashion design practices and convey their importance to students.
• Possess the ability to organize and lead initiatives, for the department and the College.
• Demonstrate professional projects that illustrate a varied and innovative design portfolio of evidence-based projects.
• Demonstrate research ability, knowledge of, and engagement with industry competitions, exhibitions, publications and/or awards.

• Demonstrate technological skills in visual art related software…