Faculty searches

Rhode Island School of Design’s critical review track faculty searches are accepting applicants for appointments beginning in fall 2025. Please visit careers.risd.edu for job descriptions and application information.

The following positions are currently open in each division:

Division of Architecture + Design
Assistant or Associate Professor, Architecture Design / Assistant or Associate Professor, Architecture, Technology/Tectonic Culture / Assistant or Associate Professor, Graphic Design / Assistant or Associate Professor, Industrial Design.

Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies
Assistant or Associate Professor, Drawing

Division of Fine Arts
Assistant or Associate Professor, Film/Animation/Video / Assistant or Associate Professor, Painting / Assistant or Associate Professor, Photography + Expanded Media / Assistant or Associate Professor, Photography + Expanded Media (Schiller Family Professorship in Race in Art and Design).

Division of Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design; areas of focus: PK-12 visual art education and community-based art education

RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution’s social equity, inclusion and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities and first-generation college students.