To museum colleagues,

I am posting this position announcement for the Department of Art, Michigan
State University.  Please note that curatorial experience is desirable.

Susan Bandes
Director
Kresge Art Museum, MSU

Position description:

RENAISSANCE ART HISTORIAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TENURE-TRACK

Salary and benefits competitive.  Start August 16, 1998, Ph.D. required.

        Ability to teach history of art of the Renaissance and a secondary field
in undergraduate and graduate history of art program including world-art
survey and seminars.  Research in area of specialization.  Participate in
the university's core curriculum via the Center for Integrative Studies in
the Arts and Humanities and in departmental outreach.  Opportunity to
participate in museum studies courses. Publications and previous teaching
experience highly desirable. Curatorial experience desirable. The person
hired for this position will have opportunities to shape curriculum,
explore new instructional technologies, participate in interdisciplinary
programming, and teach museum studies courses.

        Women, minorities, and handicappers are encouraged to apply. Michigan
State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.
Handicappers have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation.

        Include letter of application, statement of teaching philosophy, CV,
names of three references, copies of publications if available.  Send
self-addressed stamped envelope and all materials by January 15, 1998 to:

        Linda O. Stanford, Chair
        Department of Art (Renaissance Search)
        Michigan State University
        113 Kresge Art Center
        East Lansing, MI 48824-1119.



        The Department of Art is committed to excellence in the visual arts and
provides educational experiences in a learning environment conducive to the
exploration of interdisciplinary possibilities and new technologies.

        The Department has 26 tenure-stream faculty (11 art historians and 15
studio artists), 1.5 FTE academic staff, and 5 FTE support staff and serves
approximately 300 majors and many non- majors each semester. It is one of
ten departments in the College of Arts and Letters which collaborates with
other departments and area studies programs (African Studies, American
Studies, Asian Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies) in
support of speakers and special programming.

        The Department offers the BA and MA in history of art, with courses in
African, Asian, ancient Greek and Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, American,
19th-century, 20th-century, and contemporary art, the BA and BFA in Studio
Art (ceramics, design, photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture), the
BFA in Art Education, and the MFA in Studio Art (ceramics, design,
printmaking, painting, sculpture).

        It is housed in the Kresge Art Center along the banks of the Red Cedar
River.  This facility includes a Macintosh classroom, a student exhibition
space, a visual resources library, lecture rooms and studios outfitted for
diverse approaches to ceramics, design, drawing, painting, photography,
printmaking, sculpture and installations.  The Kresge Art Museum is also
located in this building.  It maintains a permanent collection, features
curated and traveling exhibitions, and collaborates with the Department to
present the annual Undergraduate and MFA Exhibitions and the biennial
Faculty Exhibition. The MSU Museum and the Fine Arts Library are other
important on-campus resources.

        To fulfill its role at Michigan State University, the Department of Art
integrates teaching, research and outreach/public service to the state, the
nation, and the world.  Michigan State University is a premier land-grant
institution and a member of the American Association of Universities (AAU)
for research universities.  It serves approximately 40,000 students on a
campus of 5,500 contiguous acres.  The university is located in East
Lansing, a residential city (53,000 pop.), adjacent to Lansing (126,722
pop.), the capital of the State of Michigan. The campus is integral to the
Lansing metropolitan area (432,674 pop.) and is two hours west of Detroit
and four hours east of Chicago.