The Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA) invites applications for a full-time faculty position in the First Year Experience (FYE) Department with a multi-year renewable contract in a non-tenure institution. MICA is recognized for the quality of its fine art and design programs at national and international levels, its dedication to student learning and teaching excellence, a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, and for preparing students for successful creative careers. We invite applications from working artists and designers who have a demonstrated commitment to education to join our faculty with a preferred start date of August 1, 2026. MICA’s First Year Experience is designed to provide a foundation-level exploratory art and design curriculum. It supports the diversity of our community, the discovery of various learning pathways, and student curiosity. Individual voices are honored while building community through a comprehensive learning experience that propels the intellect and imagination, research and critical thinking, making and fabrication, collaboration and critique. In addition, students are encouraged to explore one’s roles and responsibilities as artists and designers in society. As a guided pathway, the program’s robust and dynamic instruction strengthens foundation-level art and design skills to help students prepare for upper-level study within the Undergraduate Studies (UGS) programs. Full-time faculty teach 3 courses per semester, primarily within FYE, with opportunities to teach in upper-level programs that align with faculty expertise. In addition, full-time faculty members at MICA participate in departmental service, undertake committee membership, and are expected to maintain an ongoing professional practice. The position is specifically for a faculty appointment in interdisciplinary studio with local, national, and/or global reach. The successful candidate will help MICA’s FYE curriculum advance conceptual and critical skills in the production of studio art through exploration of the visual arts, research, material investigation, and professionally resolving content. The successful candidate will show enthusiasm for introducing students to new mediums and techniques, helping them to cultivate curiosity and embrace experimentation in their pivotal first year. The faculty member is also expected to demonstrate digital fluency in practice and teaching with a particular focus on interdisciplinary art and design production practices , in order to teach studio and media courses across the first-year program.