CCA@CCA Faculty Coordinatorship
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We are looking for a visionary faculty member with a passion for civic engagement to collaborate with the CCA Exhibitions team as lead faculty organizer of the 2025–2026 Creative Citizens Program Series.
The Creative Citizens Program Series is a core program of Creative Citizens in Action (CCA@CCA), a college-wide initiative that promotes creative activism and democratic engagement through public programs, exhibitions, and curriculum connections. Creative Citizens in Action connects the CCA community and members of the public via a year-long, intellectually rich programming series that spans the disciplines of art, design, architecture, and writing. The series will include a symposium in early March 2026.
The role includes:
- Proposing and developing a theme for the 2025–2026 academic year
- Serving as lead organizer of a minimum of 2 public programs each semester that are included in the Creative Citizens Program Series
- Overseeing a $5000 programming budget, with assistance from CCA Exhibitions
- Developing a teaching module that connects the annual theme to the classroom
- Helping promote the Creative Citizens in Action initiative and the Creative Citizens Program Series across CCA
- Serving on the selection committee for the Faculty Micro Grant Program
- Opportunities to engage with faculty, staff, and students across the college
Individual tasks include participating in biweekly planning meetings, event planning, selecting featured event speakers/practitioners, communicating with event participants, providing feedback to the CCA@CCA Design Fellow related to promotional materials, and collaborating with the CCA Exhibitions team and college stakeholders to deepen student and faculty engagement with the Creative Citizens in Action initiative.
Time and Pay:
Half Coordinatorship in fall 2025 and a half coordinatorship in spring 2026, with the possibility of additional paid prep work in summer 2025, if feasible. All faculty actively teaching in fall 2025 and spring 2026 are eligible.
- Half coordinatorship in fall 2025: $3250
- Half coordinatorship in spring 2026: $3250
- Time Requirement: ~75 hours per semester
Criteria:
- Applicant is actively teaching in fall 2025 and spring 2026
- Evidence of engagement with and/or interest in creative activism, civic engagement, and contemporary political discourse
- Prioritization of junior faculty
- Prior event planning experience is desired
Next steps:
- To apply, please send or share a brief 1-2 page statement of interest to Jaime Austin, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming, at jaustin2@cca.edu including your name, title, list of courses you’re teaching in fall (if known). Your statement should provide brief answers to the following questions:
- What is your proposed theme for the 2021-2022 academic year?
- How might this theme connect across the college?
- What does creative activism and civic engagement mean to you and your practice?
- Why are you interested in this position?
- A follow-up conversation will be scheduled via Zoom. This position includes mentorship and administrative support from the CCA Exhibitions team, and we understand that ideas will evolve over time.
- Applicants will be considered in the order they are received until the position is filled. Statements of interest received by May 1, 2025 will be given priority consideration.
- Target start date: August 21, 2025 (with the possibility of summer planning hours, as feasible).
If you have questions, would like to discuss an idea, or learn more, please reach out directly to Jaime Austin at jaustin2@cca.edu.
Additional Links and Information:
The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series is the centerpiece of the Creative Citizens in Action initiative at CCA, which also includes faculty grants, voting work, and teaching resources focused on creative activism. This program is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.
- Creative Citizens in Action Website
- Creative Citizens in Action Portal Resources
- Past CCA@CCA themes have included: Creative Activism, Fluid Mutualism, Get Out the Vote!, Belonging, The Materiality of Resistance, and Where do we go from here?
- CCA@CCA Teaching Resources (featuring modules developed by past faculty coordinators)
- Example event series from spring 2023 (note: this semester included a collegewide symposium, Coordinator is not expected to plan this number of events)