UF College of the Arts

Now hiring: Administrative Assistant II and Administrative Specialist III positions in the UF School of Art + Art History! These roles have distinct scopes and qualifications -- making them a great fit for both emerging professionals and experienced candidates.

Learn about each of these roles and apply by visiting the links in the post comments. Applications are open through June 15.

🔎 Join the UF School of Art + Art History at UF College of the Arts! 📣 We're looking for an Administrative Assistant II.

🔗 Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/540033/administrative-assistant-ii

ℹ️ All application documents must be submitted by June 15, 2026.

The School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts seeks an Administrative Assistant to join our team of 9 staff and 37 faculty members. Your role will be to provide critical support to School faculty, staff, and leadership and work closely with the College’s communications, human resources, and business offices.

Your role will be responsible for managing the School’s public relations materials, including managing the School’s social media accounts, producing weekly newsletters, and updating web content. You would be the primary administrative liaison for initiating personnel transactions, serving as the primary administrative contact for faculty and staff search needs, support travel, and managing the School’s shipping and receiving. You would also be responsible for making sure the School administrative offices are open, closed, and staffed during normal business hours, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in general office administrative functions. If you have administrative office experience, especially in higher education, government or non-profit organizations and you possess strong organizational skills, and a desire to grow professionally in a critical administrative role, this position is a wonderful opportunity for you.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating foundational shifts in the arts and beyond. As business and academic professionals, artists, scholars, advisors, and teachers, we, the staff of the College, embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our colleagues, students, and faculty to respond to and shape that experience fearlessly through critical thinking, creativity, constructive questioning, and respectful dialogue. We seek a colleague who engages with openness and enthusiasm for the work and the mission of the college. We seek a colleague who possesses skills in designing and facilitating work that advances curiosity, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in an environment of complex differences. We seek a colleague who identifies as a trusted steward of resources, balancing institutional requirements and the demand for innovative solutions.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

Come work with us at the UF College of the Arts!

The UF COTA Dean's Office seeks a Research Administrator II to guide, support, and encourage Principal Investigators (P*s), project managers, and other faculty, students, and staff in the College, working on sponsored projects. This role requires a solutions-based approach, high degree of flexibility, responsiveness, and the ability to adapt to evolving project needs, shifting timelines, and nontraditional research structures common in the arts.

Applications are open through June 8, 2026.

📋⬇️ Learn more and apply today at the link in the comments.

"Fatimah Tuggar, a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and professor of artificial intelligence in the arts at UF, has always kept an eye on the future.

Tuggar’s work has been featured at the Venice Biennale — a prestigious international art exhibition in Italy — and she was recently awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award in Visual Arts Research, which will take her to New Zealand this coming January. Fulbright scholars receive a grant to travel to a foreign country to conduct work that promotes cross-cultural understanding."

Read the full story by The Independent Florida Alligator at the link ⤵️

UF professor and artist Fatimah Tuggar reflects on the future of art and AI - The Independent Florida Alligator Fatimah Tuggar, a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and associate professor of artificial intelligence in the arts at UF, has always kept an eye to the future.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kevin Robert Orr, who has been appointed dean of the University of Florida College of the Arts, effective July 1.

Dr. Orr has served as director of the UF School of Music since 2015, overseeing 450 music majors and 55 faculty and staff. During his tenure, he launched new graduate and undergraduate degree programs, appointed 37 full-time faculty and staff members and led fundraising efforts that secured nearly $65 million for the renovation and expansion of the music building.

“I am profoundly honored by the opportunity to serve the University of Florida College of the Arts as dean,” Orr said. “The inspiring work of our students, faculty and staff across a wide range of arts and interdisciplinary research positions us well for a future of extraordinary possibilities and deep impact on our community, our state and the world.”

Read more in UF News: https://news.ufl.edu/2026/05/college-of-the-arts-dean/

Rachel Silveri (Assistant Professor of Modern Art History) will give a talk on her book, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris" (University of Chicago Press, 2026), at Dale Zine in Miami, FL, this Saturday, May 9, from 3:00-5:00 PM, followed by a book signing.

With "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris," Rachel Silveri takes a fresh look at the desire to unify art and life, an ambition long regarded as foundational to the European historical avant-gardes. She reveals how many early twentieth-century artists saw their own everyday lives—their bodies, identities, and relationships—as a type of creative material and a central component to their avant-garde practice. These artists abandoned traditional forms of artmaking and venues of art viewing, instead aspiring to integrate art with everyday life, creating an “art of living.”

Considering Tristan Tzara’s performances of Dadaist identity, Sonia Delaunay’s simultaneous fashions and self-branding, and the collective endeavor to open and operate the Surrealist Research Bureau, Silveri offers a new narrative about how the artists of interwar Paris developed experiential life practices that resisted dominant forms of “lifestyle” and normative discourses surrounding gender, ethnicity, and office work. This book argues that ethical questions of “How should I live?” and “How should I relate to others?” were as important to the avant-garde as politics, and that aspirations to change the world played out in daily practices of self-making.


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Please join us in congratulating UF School of Theatre + Dance Professor Augusto Soledade on being named a 2026 University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professor!

Professor Soledade’s internationally recognized, award-winning research advances contemporary dance through Afro-Fusion — an African-rooted aesthetic and scholarly framework spanning choreography, screendance, and film that recenters Afro-diasporic embodied knowledge while reshaping how dance is created, experienced, and theorized.

“UFRF Professors represent the depth and breadth of research excellence at the University of Florida,” said David Norton, UF’s vice president for research. “Their work reflects sustained scholarly achievement, leadership within their disciplines, and a commitment to pursuing new knowledge that benefits society.”

Learn more about the award and view the full list of 2026 UFRF Professors: https://news.ufl.edu/2026/04/ufrf-professors/

Congratulations to UF College of the Arts 2026 40 Under 40 honoree 🐊✨

Aly Maier Lokuta, BFA ’09, MA ’18, a “double COTA Gator” who received her BFA from the School of Art + Art History and her MA from the Center for Arts in Medicine, is doing incredible work at the intersection of arts and health - leading innovative programs that use creativity to support well-being in communities. We’re proud to celebrate a Gator making a meaningful impact!

📖 Learn more about the honoree here: https://bit.ly/3P2ERHu
UF Center for Arts in Medicine
UF School of Art + Art History

The countdown is on! We are officially one week out from the College of the Arts, College of Design, Construction and Planning, and College of Education combined Recognition Ceremony! 🎓

When: Thursday, April 30 starting at 2:00 p.m.
Where: At the Stephen C. O'Connell Center + Livestreaming

Can't make it in person? Join us on the the livestream at: https://mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/Play/fea92f3d71da494594b6a4c5226a43ba1d

Congratulations to UF School of Art + Art History Professor of AI and the Arts, Fatimah Tuggar, who has been named as a 2026-2027 Fulbright Scholar by The Fulbright Program!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 15, 2026
University of Florida, Gainesville
US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Contact: [email protected]

Fatimah Tuggar, a Professor of AI in the Arts and an innovator in Art and Technology at the University of Florida, College of the Arts, has received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award in Visual Arts Research for [2026-27]. Her work in New Zealand aims to foster cross-cultural understanding and artistic innovation, demonstrating how international collaboration enriches the arts community and broadens perspectives.

While at Massey University in New Zealand, Tuggar, with three decades of experience creating sculptures that are both functional and aesthetic, blending indigenous and conventional materialities and technologies, inspired by Western and West African objects, plans to explore how indigenous Māori culture blurs the line between function, communication, and utility in objects, challenging perceptions of contemporary visual art. Her work will be divided into investigation, experimentation, testing, conceptualizing and planning for artistic production based on old and new discoveries.

Read the full press release at:
arts.ufl.edu/news/fatimah-tuggar-receives-fulbright-u-s-scholar-award-for-2026-27/

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