Art
Salary For Announcement
The hourly rate for this temporary position is $25.00 per hour
This position is a Temporary Position that is not benefits-eligible.
Position Summary
The Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing area at Metropolitan State University is seeking a part time technician for the Spring 2024 semester. This individual will work closely with the area coordinator, Leslie Boyd, to maintain the jewelry design and metalsmithing studio.
The Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing area utilizes historical and contemporary contexts, through research and experimentation, to explore the creation of adornment, functional objects, and sculptural forms. The Jewelry and Metalsmithing area at MSU Denver is the only university-level jewelry studio in the Denver metropolitan area. Our curriculum encourages students to pursue their personal artistic and career goals in jewelry/metals while developing a strong foundation in traditional and contemporary metals techniques. The curriculum is designed to broaden students' understanding of the field and its historical and contemporary context through research and experimentation.
Duties/Responsibilities
The Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing studio provides 16 individual student workstations in addition to separate casting, soldering, enameling, and forming areas. It was renovated in the summer of 2020 to build out a designated centrifugal casting area, hoods for chemical-based processes, and brand-new ventilation throughout.
Responsibilities include: upholding studio safety procedures; training, scheduling, and oversight of student studio monitors; upkeep and repair of tools and equipment in the studio; inventory and ordering of supplies for courses; creation of samples and supplemental materials as needed, etc.
The studio facility consists of the following:
- Individual benches with a variety of hand tools
- A communal tool cabinet with extensive hammers, draw plates, chasing tools, setting tools, and various other specialty hand tools that can be borrowed by students for in-studio use
- Rental tool kits for students
- 4 large natural gas and compressed air torches for annealing
- 4 acetylene and air torches for soldering and brazing
- An oxygen-acetylene micro torch for small-scale soldering operations
- A large oxygen-acetylene torch for casting
- 2 chemical hoods for pickling, etching, electroforming, and patina processes
- A variety of anvils, mandrels, and stakes for metalsmithing
- Rolling mills
- Metal shear
- 36 sandblaster
- Scroll saw
- Centrifugal and vacuum casting equipment
- A large burnout kiln for casting
- Vulcanizer for rubber mold-making
- Small and large drill presses
- A belt sander, disk sander, and grinder
- Polishing machines
- Hydraulic press
- Tumblers for mass-finishing processes
- Ultrasonic cleaner
- Steamer
- Small and large enameling kilns
- 10 Flexshaft stations
Qualifications:
Required:
- BFA in Studio Art
- Demonstrated expertise in jewelry & metalsmithing processes and technologies.
- Comprehensive knowledge of equipment usage and studio safety practices.
- Experience working with and sensitivity to the needs of a diverse urban student population including (but not limited to) students of color, LBGTQIA students, students from low-income backgrounds, first-generation students, students with disabilities, undocumented students, non-traditional students, student veterans, and English language learners.
Preferred:
- Prior experience with managing staff, being a technician, managing a budget
Work Hours
10 hours a week.
Note: As a part time temp hourly, they cannot work more than 19 hours a week and their contract maximum is 1 year.
05/15/2024
Darrick Conroy
dconroy4@msudenver.edu
MSU Denver is pleased to offer our current and potential employees a wide array of benefit options. To learn more, please visit the following link:
Employee Benefits Offerings
Metropolitan State University of Denver is a unique, access-oriented campus community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms. Our student population consists of nearly 58% first generation students and over 50% students of color. We are a designated Hispanic Serving Institution located in downtown Denver.
We create an equitable learning and working environment in concert with individuals who consistently demonstrate commitment to equity and inclusion. We greatly value the diverse identities and perspectives of our students, faculty, and staff and recognize that in order to achieve a just and equitable society, diversity must go beyond simple representation. It requires critical inquiry and dialogue and a commitment to action. We strive to provide a culture of belonging for all community members to achieve personal and professional success.
