Teaching Assistantship Vacancies – Department of Art History, Art Conservation

and Fine Art (Visual Arts) 2024-2025

The Department of Art History, Art Conservation and Fine Art (Visual Arts) has Teaching Assistantships available in the following courses for 2024-2025 academic year. TAships are filled according to Group Preferences set out in the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University and the Public Service Alliance of Canada

Applications are due no later than Wednesday August 7, 2024

Responsibilities

The teaching assistant duties include but are not limited to grading assignments, attending lectures and tutorials in person, office hours with students, and answering emails. More specific expectations will be covered at the beginning of the term.

 

ARTH 121: Global Art Histories 

Fall Term ON CAMPUS

An introduction to the study of art, architecture, and material culture from a global perspective, including Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Organized around themes, parallels and connections will be drawn between artistic objects and buildings from across history and around the world. Case studies consider art and architecture’s relationship to religion, monarchy, colonialism, indigeneity, missionization, cultural appropriation, commodification, and self-representation. Others will consider medium, technique, perspective, composition, and art’s relationship to narrative and meditation.

 

ARTH 122: Curating Art Worlds

Winter Term ON CAMPUS

This course introduces students to key "art world" institutions, such as museums, artist-run centres, biennales, and auction houses, by examining their histories, current practices, and future challenges. Using a case study approach, the course provides students with introductory professional skills, concepts, and ideas to think and work in a diversity of arts careers while gaining transferable skills.

 

ARTH 250: Art, Society and Culture

Fall Term ONLINE

This online course is an introduction to the social conditions and cultural movements that shaped nineteenth-century European visual arts in their global context. Two main themes will be stressed:  1) the tension between modernity and anti-modernism and 2) competing views on the very nature of the visual arts.  The dramatic social and political developments of the period were reflected in diverse cultural movements, some of which embraced change while others rejected it and looked to the past for artistic models.  Closely related to these cultural movements was the fundamental question of what comprised the visual arts.  For example, increased exposure to non-Western visual culture challenged European assumptions about art.

 

ARTV 102: Meaning-making through Visual Art

Winter Term ON CAMPUS

An introduction to the production of meaning through art making across a range of visual media. Although different in their final forms, all works of art are the product of a series of decisions (material, formal, conceptual, cultural, political, relational) that create effects and meanings. These meanings are shaped by different perspectives and worldviews, and they shift over time or across different contexts. In this course, students will be introduced to a variety of artistic processes and use these to convey concepts gaining critical awareness of how their works engage various audiences.

 

ARTF 125: Introduction to Studio Art in Printmaking

Winter Term ONLINE

This survey course introduces various Printmaking techniques including monoprint, relief, etching, digital and hybrid methods. Students focus on applying the various methods to personal research interests to create original print-based imagery that demonstrates formal, conceptual, historical and contemporary consideration.

 

Teaching Assistantships are filled according to Group Preferences set out in the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC 901 http://psac901.org/).

First Preference – Group A

Is for qualified graduate students registered as:

1. students in a department or program in which the TAship will be offered; or
2. students in an interdisciplinary program with TA budget resources, and for whom the TAship has been granted as part of the funding commitment offered by the Employer.

Second Preference – Group B

Is for qualified graduate students registered as:

1. students in a department or program in which the TAship will be offered; or
2. students in an interdisciplinary program with TA budget resources, and who are in their first unfunded year of their graduate studies program.

Third Preference – Group C

Is for qualified graduate students registered as:

1. students in a department or program in which the TAship will be offered; or
2. students in an interdisciplinary program with TA budget resources, and for whom
3. the TAship will not form part of the funding commitment offered by the Employer; or
4. there is currently no funding commitment provide by the Employer.

Fourth Preference – Group D

Is for qualified graduate students that have previously held a TAship or TFship for the Employer.

Fifth Preference – Group E

Is for qualified graduate students that have did not meet the criteria as set out in 12.04 A, B, C, or D.

 

  APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications are being accepted immediately and are due no later than Wednesday August 7, 2024.

Please ensure you indicate which applicant group you are in.

• Group A and B Applicants

Please complete and submit the Application Form indicating course preferences.

• Groups C, D and E Applicants

Please complete and submit the Application Form. In addition, upload a cover letter and curriculum vitae outlining academic accomplishments and relevant experience along with your unofficial transcript.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Posting Date: July 9, 2024