The Grant Wood Art Colony provides a creative home for the next generation of artists at the University of Iowa—specifically with the School of Art, Art History, and Design and Performing Arts at Iowa—through artist residencies, teaching fellowships, symposia, and community programs. The three pillars of the Colony—fellowship, research, and community engagement—are all carried out adjacent to the home Grant Wood owned and lived in while teaching at the University in the 1930s.
Iowa City, IA
United States
Submission: To apply for this position, go to http://jobs.uiowa.edu and refer to requisition #75818. To receive prime consideration, applications should be submitted by January 15, 2026, but will continue until filled.
Applications must include:
- A cover letter indicating interest, qualifications, teaching experience, and creative practice.
- Professional resume or curriculum vita.
- An artist statement discussing personal and social impact goals.
- A representative sample of the applicant’s work (for example, link to digital materials, website).
- Contact information for three professional references.
Fellowship Recipient Responsibilities
- Teach one course each semester (two courses total). Depending on the candidate’s strengths and area of specialization they may teach:
- Fall: Producing/Directing Digital Video or Installations and Interactive Performance or Special Topics course in Digital Media and Live Performance
- Spring: Video for Performance (projection design 101) or Performance, Art, and New Technologies in Society, or Special Topics course in Digital Media and Live Performance
- Present at least one public performance of their research and/or design projections/digital media for one play in the Department of Theatre Arts mainstage season.
- Provide one public lecture of their research at the Stanley Museum of Art.
- Participate in public engagement activities (e.g., educational programming, collaboration with local arts organizations, activities with local community, etc.)
- Collaboration with students and faculty within the Department of Theatre Arts and the Digital Arts Certificate program. This collaboration could include research, creative scholarship, guest lectures in other courses, presentations for certificate students, or advising a certificate capstone project, etc.
- Fellows are required to maintain residence in the Grant Wood Art Colony.
Required Qualifications
- MFA, MA or PhD degree in Theatre or other fine arts & technology/new media discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in digital media, new/emerging technologies, interactive media, and/or video/projection for live performance.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work with students and colleagues in a performing arts capacity, providing a training ground and opportunities for experiential learning.
Desired Qualifications
- University level teaching experience.
- Demonstrated proficiency with large format video projection, live video, and media servers such as Disguise, Isadora, Touch Designer, Pixera, or Pandoras Box software.
- Video production/filmmaking experience.
- Experience and/or interest with experimenting with virtual, augmented, or mixed reality, including Unity, Unreal, Notch, or 3DS Max software.
- Experience and/or interest with motion capture technologies such as OptiTrack or Vicon and/or inertia motion capture suit technologies such as Perception Nueron, Rokoko or Realsense suits.
- Experience working on productions in an academic setting, preferably in a higher education setting.