Help Wanted: UrbanGlass seeks director of education for Fall 2010

UrbanGlass, the Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit arts organization that publishes the Hot Sheet and GLASS magazine, is seeking a new director of education to replace Brian Frus, who will be moving to Florida to start as an assistant professor of glass in the art department at Jacksonville University this fall.

According to the official job posting on the UrbanGlass website, the position requires a range of skills and responsibilities: “From innovating courses and planning the curriculum to designing catalogs and marketing materials to negotiating University contracts to stocking materials, leading tours, and teaching classes, the Director of Education must be an organized administrator as well as a capable artist and educator who is engaged with the greater glass and art communities.”

Asked about the most important skills the job demands, outgoing education director Frus told the Hot Sheet “You have to have a working knowledge of all forms of glass, strong organizational abilities, and some ideas of where you want to take the program educationally in terms of the classes you want to offer and the artists you invite to teach.”

Applicants should hold a B.A./B.F.A. and have five years related experience, or hold an M.A./M.F.A., preferably from a visual arts institution. Knowledge of glass-making techniques is required and contemporary arts knowledge is preferred.

TO APPLY:

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