Fine Arts Instructor - Photography

We are currently seeking an accomplished and enthusiastic educator to teach visual arts in a student-centered environment beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. The primary focus of the role is the teaching of photography. Individual classes to be taught include Analog, Digital, and Advanced Photography.
 
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS 
•    Minimum of a BA/BFA in visual arts. 
•    Demonstrated outstanding artistry. 
•    Ability to support both analog and digital photography labs. 
•    Desire to establish active working relationships with other faculty. 
•    Commitment to belonging and inclusion in education and artistic activities.  
 
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS 
•    Master’s degree in visual arts specialty. 
•    Minimum of three years teaching experience at the secondary or college level.  
•    Experience maintaining darkroom, analog lab, and digital labs.
•    Curatorial experience. 
 
The responsibilities outside the classroom include supporting students pursuing honors in the visual arts as coordinated with the visual arts team, hosting weekly open-studio hours for the community, and co-curating the Crisp Visual Arts Center Art Collection and galleries. There are opportunities and support to engage in the arts at Culver based upon one’s interest and expertise to include clubs, performances, and studio practice. 
The Crisp Visual Arts Center includes professional and student gallery spaces, a vast art collection (including works by prominent photographers such as Ansel Adams, Eudora Welty, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Edward Curits), classroom studios, and space for private practice. The analog lab has around a dozen enlargers, a newly outfitted digital lab with full access to Adobe CC programs, separate lighting studio and private office. 

We seek not only to maintain the quality and scope of the program but also to adjust offerings to meet educational goals as well as student needs and interests. Our students have high expectations for their education, and demand that their teachers be positive, energetic, motivating and supremely compassionate examples of a servant leader in all that they do. Since Culver is a secondary level boarding school, supervisory and mentoring opportunities outside visual arts with students are expected, as is designated by the department chair, Dean of Faculty, and Head of School.  
Culver Academies places a premium on a teaching and learning culture in which faculty routinely talk about practice, observe each other in the practice of teaching, create curriculum together, and teach each other what they know about teaching and learning. 

Professional development is available for all instructors and is born from goals set by individual teachers and goals established within the fine arts department.  Opportunities include traditional off-campus workshops and conferences, graduate work, research with students or colleagues, faculty-developed curriculum projects, and regularly scheduled on-campus forums for learning support, educational technology, disciplinary expertise, and culture.

Successful candidates will have a commitment to fostering belonging and inclusion in concert with our student-generated Diversity Statement. Interested candidates who find themselves aligned with Culver’s Teaching and Learning Model and supportive of the Commitments of Culver Educator should express interest by completing the application link below.