Careers in Art
A WebQuest for Art II/ Honors Art/ Independent Study (Art II/Art III/Art IV)
Designed by Andrea J. Spano
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page
Introduction
If you're tired of your folks nagging you to make up your mind about "whatcha gonna be when you grow up", then you need to go on a Quest. Should you choose to accept this Quest, let's go and explore together the various avenues leading to a possible career in Art.
Task
You are a mighty Senior about to graduate from high school and have been accepted to a local college art program. You are to explore the various careers in Art that would interest you for future employment, select an art category from the job classifications list provided below to determine what art career you might be interested in. The findings of your selection will be a Power Point presentation at the end of the unit, with two weeks to complete the assignment.
Commercial art: visual communication, product design, environmental design.
Fine art
Crafts
Art Education
Arts business/management
Entertainment Design
Process
The following procedures are necessary to complete the task.
1. Select an art category.
2. Select the career of your choice.
3. Use the following guidelines to gather information about your career.
a. Job title
b. Job description before/after research
c. Contacting an artist in their career field and conducting a short interview about themselves and their work
d. Education needed for the job
e. Searching for a projected salary
f. Locate some photo examples of the art career to be later used in the Power Point presentation
g. Insert 3 interesting images (graphics)
Site Resources for Assignment
www.nmu.edu/art-design/AD_Career-Jobs.html- contains resource listings and valuable links related to art careers.
www.lib.muohio.edu/libinfo/depts/artarch/RedNotebook/ArtCareers.html - listing of resources to identify possible employers.
www.cdf.org/ - variety of resources including a listing of design firms and information about Green design.
www.visualnation.com/VN1/art_car.html - a large listing of art careers
www.visualnation.com/VN1/197artcareers.html - a large listing of art careers
www.khake.com - a great listing with associated links
www.byu.edu/ccc/advising/career_book/artscomm/art.htm - listings with job descriptions
http://photo.sehnsucht.org/ - LOTS of image
www.freefoto.com/index.jsp - LOTS MORE images
Evaluation
This will be an individual grade and not a group grade. You will be evaluated on the final presentation of your chosen career.
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Unacceptable 1 |
Acceptable 2 |
Target 3 |
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|---|---|---|---|
State your Career Choice
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No Career Specified | Career Stated | Career Realistically Stated |
Job Title
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No Job Title specified | Job Title Stated | Job title Stated with PANACHE |
Student's Impression of Job Description Before/Actual Job Description
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Insufficient Information Provided | Student's impression of the job before and after research | Before/After job description/students' contact of artist in actual job. |
Education Needed for the Job
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Educational needs not stated | States type of education needed to secure the job | States education needed to secure the job/identify a prospective school |
Projected Salary for the Job
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No salary stated | Job salary stated | Identify a job opening in selected career with salary stated. |
Images
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No images | Minimum images needed | Images subject specific |
Contact artist and complete a brief interview
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On artist contacted, no interview | Artist contacted with name and ocupation stated | Artist contacted, an indept interview conducted, examples of artists' work displayed. |
Conclusion
You have successfully concluded the research needed to make your career choice in Art. Not only that, have learned a tremendous amount on what is needed in order to land the career of your dreams.
Food for thought:
1. What will you do with this information?
2. Are you going to pursue this avenue for an occupation?
3. Or will you just throw up your hands and say "that's too hard"
Credits & References
The following image came from Free-Foto.com, http://www.freefoto.com Look under Nature, TEXTURES, photo # 33-10_11_thunb.jpg. The category of textures is managed by Ian Britton, last updated: Dec. 22, 2002, 10:06:44 AM.
The following text used is Brommer, G. F. & Gatto, J. A. (1999). Careers in art: an illustrated guide (2nd ed.). Worcester, Ma: Davis Publications, Inc.
I would like to thank my fellow classmates of AETE 731 for their infinite patience and suggestions and to our professor, Dr. Tom Smyth: Thank you.
This page was prepared in partial fulfillment for (AETE 731). The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the author. The contents of the page have not been approved by the University of South Carolina Aiken.
Last updated on (June 18, 2003). Based on a template from The WebQuest Page