Faculty in Arts Education & Community Arts Practices

We invite applications for faculty positions in Arts Education and Community Arts Practices

Arts Education and Community Arts Practices contribute to human development and well-being. We offer Arts programmes that create critical and reflective practitioners with an understanding of the social impact of the arts in education, community development, and health.

As a faculty of Arts Education courses you will be enabling students to:

  • Integrate art across the curriculum in schools and teach art in classrooms
  • Write curricula for edtech companies
  • Develop curriculum for central and state boards
  • Make contributions to education policy

As a faculty of Community Arts Practices courses you will be enabling students to:

  • Creatively engage with community development and/​or interface between craft communities and industry.
  • Work with governmental and non-governmental organisations in the areas of arts and crafts facilitation, promotion, exhibition, and marketing
  • Work as capacity builders for artists’ cooperatives

We are interested in candidates who have worked on one or more of the following: 

  • Arts Education initiatives in classrooms, schools, and communities
  • Community Development through the arts
  • Arts-based Participatory Action Research
  • Programme/​Project Management
  • Arts in Health or Creative Arts Therapies
  • Post-graduate degree in an Arts discipline (Craft, Visual Arts, or Performing Arts), Education, and/​or related field
  • Experience in managing organisations, programmes, and/​or projects
  • Experience in studying and documenting Arts Education and/​or Community Arts practices
  • Fluent in the academic discourse of one or more Arts discipline

Please email the following documents to facultypositions@​apu.​edu.​in with the subject line Application for Faculty Position in Arts Education

  • A short personal statement that describes your background and interest in the University
  • Teaching Statement and Research Statement
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Two samples of published work or creative work in related field
  • 2 – 3 letters of recommendation (optional)
  • Completed Information Summary sheet