 In 1976, she was a visiting artist and instructor at Carnegie Mellon University, before taking a tenured-track position in the fall at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.After moving to New York, Grad joined the full-time faculty as a Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in 1981.She was the first woman to hold a tenure-track, full-time position teaching painting in MassArt's Fine Arts 2D Department.