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Can you get a decent art education on the web? The answer is a qualified ‘yes’, …. if you do your homework, and if you select a reputable art school.

The internet is actually a good way to find out about various art programs around the country, around the world. First you have to select an art school which has a good reputation.

Many of the benefits to online education have to do with added flexibility:
1. Ability to stay home and study with a college or school whose base is at a different location.
2. Ability to study when it suits you. You can work around your day job or the busy routine of a family life with children.

Challenges of online education for art schools are generally:

1. student interaction with other students, teachers and tutors.
2. student interaction with teachers and tutors
An online art school should contain just about the same as a “live” education, depending on how long and intense it is. you should be able to learn different techniques, take idea and concept based courses, at least one course in art theory and history. Personal tutoring from teachers is important as well. You have to be able to get response and feedback on your progress, otherwise it’s hard to develop your skills and ideas.

Challenges of online education for art students are generally:
1. the required discipline to ‘keep going’ when the going gets tough’ and to see coursework through to the end. Some people simply need a physical teacher around, who could frown to you if you’d tell her you didn’t complete your art project.
2. certain students need to hear or see things to be able to learn, while others are brilliant at learning through books.

What you’d get in the end

Some educations offer a degree and some just diplomas. It depends on the level on it, and how much time and money you are able to put in. if you are aiming on a degree in fine arts on a professional level, you have to take a college course and that will cost more for you in time and money investment. If you want to take some courses to learn new techniques or just for a hobby, you can take shorter single theme courses. It all depends on your needs.

The one thing to keep in mind is to fulfill your dreams. A fine or graphic art education can be something many people would advice against, but I’m of the opposite opinion. You have to try out your dreams how else would you know what your purpose in life is?

As an aid in this process:

Timeline of Art History: United States & Canada, 1900 ad – present

List of significant American art, artistic events and influences that mark the last century of American art.

ARCHITECTURE
1900 In the design of the Ward W. Willitts House in Highland Park, Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) creates the “Prairie Style,” a modernist aesthetic for architecture and design that complements the Midwestern landscape.

DANCE
1903 San Francisco–born expatriate Isadora Duncan (1878–1927) delivers a lecture in Berlin entitled “The Dance of the Future” and is soon hailed in the U.S. and Europe as the founder of modern dance.

ART PHOTOGRAPHY
1908 Lewis Hine (1874–1940) becomes staff photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), traveling through the United States documenting child labor in various industries. Designed to evoke the sympathy of viewers and mobilize activism, Hine’s images are circulated by the NCLC via exhibitions and pamphlets. His last large-scale documentary project will be a record of the construction of the Empire State Building in New York (1930–31), in which workers and labor itself share the spotlight with the awe-inspiring structure.

FINE ART PAINTING
1908 A group of eight realist painters of urban life, later known as the Ashcan School or “The Eight,” including William Glackens (1870–1938), Robert Henri (1865–1929), George Luks (1867–1933), and John Sloan (1871–1951), organize an exhibition at Macbeth Gallery in New York.

WRITING
1909 Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) publishes Three Lives, a character study of three women. A native of Pennsylvania, Stein is for many years a prominent member of avant-garde artistic and expatriate circles in Paris.

ART ENVIRONMENT
1910s Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan emerges as an enclave of bohemian and radical culture, home to irreverent small presses, avant-garde art galleries and studios, and experimental theater groups.

ART ENVIRONMENT
1912 New Mexico and Arizona become the forty-seventh and forty-eighth states of the U.S. The unique landscape and culture of the American Southwest will attract many artists, including Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), who will travel to New Mexico for the first time in 1929 and reside there permanently from 1949.

Farbstudie Quadrate, c.1913 Wassily Kandinsky Buy From Art.com

ART MOVEMENT
1913 The International Exposition of Modern Art (the “Armory Show”) is held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York and introduces Americans to the modernist work of Matisse, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Picasso, Braque, and others on a large scale. Nude Descending a Staircase, a Cubist canvas by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), creates a public sensation. Theodore Roosevelt labels the Futurist and Cubist artists in the exhibition “the lunatic fringe.” Smaller versions of the show subsequently travel to Chicago and Boston.

CONTROVERSIONAL ART
1917 Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) exhibits his first readymade, Fountain, an upturned and signed urinal, at the Society of Independent Artists in New York. This work questions what it means to be an artist and what constitutes a work of art.

ART MOVEMENT
1920s–early 1930s Literary, visual, and performing arts flourish in Harlem, the African-American enclave of New York City, spurred by the mass migration of blacks from rural areas to northern cities. Poets, novelists, painters, and musicians of the “New Negro Movement“—later called the Harlem Renaissance—search for new forms of expression to convey their racial experiences and celebrate African-American cultural identity. Major figures of the Harlem Renaissance include poets Langston Hughes (1902–1967) and Countee Cullen (1903–1946), novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), jazz composer Duke Ellington (1899–1974), political activists W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), photographer James Van Der Zee (1886–1983), and artists Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) and Archibald Motley (1891–1981).

ART SCHOOL
1928–41 The Cranbrook Academy of Art is designed and constructed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by Finnish-American modernist Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950), who also serves as president of the Academy.

ART MUSEUM
1929 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, opens.

ART MOVEMENT
1930s The Regionalist movement is embodied in the paintings of Grant Wood (1892–1942), John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), and Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975). Rejecting the tenets of modernist art and theory, the Regionalists depict indigenous American subjects in a realist mode, often in murals commissioned for post offices, schools, libraries, and other public buildings under the auspices of the Federal Art Project, a Depression-era government program.

ART MOVEMENT
1932 The International Style exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curated by architect Philip Johnson (born 1906) and art historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987), it introduces an American audience to recent developments in European modernist architecture.

ART PHOTOGRAPHY / ART MOVEMENT
1932 Eleven West Coast photographers, including Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), and Edward Weston (1886–1958), hold an exhibition in San Francisco at which they announce the formation of Group f/64, dedicated to a “pure” photography that captures the world “as it is,” and opposed to the aesthetic manipulations of Pictorialism.

ART SCHOOL
1933 A liberal arts college is founded in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and becomes a locus for the dissemination of Bauhaus ideas through its European émigré teaching staff, including the German Josef Albers (1888–1976). Black Mountain College remains a site for the production of experimental multimedia work until it closes in 1957.

CONTROVERSIAL ART
1933 Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979) to create a mural for the RCA Building in New York’s Rockefeller Center. Because the painting, entitled Man at the Crossroads, contains a portrait of Lenin, Rivera is prevented from completing it, and Rockefeller later has it destroyed. The leftist politics and social content of Rivera’s work, along with that of his compatriots José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1975), who also spend time in the U.S. during the 1930s executing various public commissions, influence many American artists employed in government-sponsored New Deal projects during the Depression.

ART SUPPORT
1935 The federal government launches the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which, like other New Deal programs, provides employment for artists. Ben Shahn (1898–1969), Stuart Davis (1892–1964), and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), among thousands of other artists, produce murals, sculptures, posters, and other graphic materials for public buildings and for exhibitions held in dozens of community art centers established across the country by the Federal Art Project. Photographers document the living and working conditions of Americans during the Depression with the support of the Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration). Among the photographers is Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), whose images of the Dust Bowl exodus become symbols of the migrant experience.

CONTROVERSIAL ART – ART PHOTOGRAPHY
1936 The Photo League, committed to a documentary photography allied to progressive political and social movements, establishes a school in New York under the directorship of Sid Grossman (1913–1955) and begins publication of its provocative journal Photo Notes. Among the League’s projects is Harlem Document, supervised by Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), which records life in New York’s African-American community. In the late 1940s, the League is declared a “subversive” organization by the U.S. Attorney General and many of its members are blacklisted.

LANDMARK ART
1942 Edward Hopper (1882–1967) paints Nighthawks (Art Institute, Chicago), an iconic depiction of loneliness and isolation in contemporary American life. Hopper maintains allegiance to a harsh realist mode throughout his life, creating stark urban and rural scenes scored by bright artificial light and deep shadows.

ART MUSEUM
1942 Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) opens the gallery Art of This Century in New York. Romanian-Austrian architect Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) designed the interiors that were intended to complement the Surrealist and abstract art on display.

ART & DESIGN
1944 The American Society of Industrial Designers is founded to advocate high-quality design of industrial products, a larger concern at mid-century. Among the most advanced designers of the period is Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958), whose work encompasses the practical design of everyday commodities such as typewriters and radios, and large-scale visionary projects such as the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

ART MOVEMENT/ ART GENRES
1945 The conclusion of World War II begins a prolonged period of economic expansion in the U.S. Among the postwar American art movements that receive popular and critical attention worldwide is Abstract Expressionism, which includes two subgenres: action or gesture painting, associated with the work of Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Lee Krasner (1908–1984), Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), Franz Kline (1910–1962), and others, and color field painting, represented by the work of Mark Rothko (1903–1970), Barnett Newman (1905–1970), and Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967). Although Abstract Expressionism is mostly thought of as a movement in painting, it has some correlation to the sculpture of David Smith (1906–1965).

PRINT MAKING
1957 Tatyana Grosman (1904–1982) establishes Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), a printmaking workshop, in West Islip, New York. ULAE sets the standards for a postwar printmaking renaissance in the United States.

ART MUSEUM
1958 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), opens in New York. Wright had begun working on the commission for a building to house the Guggenheim’s collection of modernist art in 1943. The museum represents a sculpturally and spatially rich use of concrete.

ART HAPPENING
1959 The first public “happening” is produced by Allan Kaprow (born 1927) at the Reuben Gallery in New York. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg are among the performers. Influenced by Jackson Pollock’s process of action painting, the teachings of John Cage on chance and indeterminacy in art, and ultimately Dadaism, Kaprow defines a happening as a choreographed event that facilitates spontaneous interactions between objects—which include performers—and visitors.

ART MOVEMENT
1960 The Minimalist movement begins and maintains an important place in the art world for about a decade. Practitioners include Carl Andre (born 1935), Robert Morris (born 1931), Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Brice Marden (born 1938), Robert Ryman (born 1930), and others.

ART MOVEMENT
1961 The phrase “concept art” is first used by Henry Flynt (born 1940). It comes to have a more general application to the work of artists Sol LeWitt (born 1928), Joseph Kosuth (born 1945), and others. During the following decade, Conceptual and performance art demonstrate the possibilities of making art without producing saleable objects.

ART MOVEMENT
1962 Andy Warhol (1928–1987) paints Campbell’s Soup Cans, a key work of the Pop Art movement. Warhol and other artists associated with the movement, including Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) and Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), satirize Americans’ voracious consumption of manufactured products in the postwar period.

ART STYLE / MOVEMENT
1962 Yale University’s Art and Architecture Building, designed by Paul Rudolph (1918–1997), opens. It is an important monument of New Brutalism, a style that—in contrast to the trim and sleek aesthetic of 1920s modernism—emphasizes the tactility and roughness of its materials, often poured-in-place concrete.

ART MOVEMENT
1964 The term “optical art” is coined in Time magazine to describe painting and sculpture that makes use of optical effects to evoke physiological responses in the viewer. Proponents of Op Art include Bridget Riley (born 1931), Larry Poons (born 1937), and long-time practitioner Victor Vasarely (1908–1997).

ART MOVEMENT
1969 A group exhibition devoted to Conceptual art, entitled January 1–31: 0 Objects, 0 Paintings, 0 Sculptures, is mounted by New York dealer Seth Siegelaub and features the work of four artists: Joseph Kosuth (born 1945), Lawrence Weiner (born 1940), Robert Barry (born 1936), and Douglas Huebler (1924–1997). As a movement, Conceptualism critiques the political and economic structures that sustain Western art forms, and Conceptual artists produce works intended to convey ideas—often through the use of text alone—rather than to be appreciated as precious commodities.

ART MOVEMENT
1970 Environmental awareness spawns earthworks, sculptural projects on the scale of the landscape itself. Perhaps the best-known example is Robert Smithson’s (1938–1973) large-scale Spiral Jetty, built out of rock and earth in the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

ART MOVEMENT
1971 The term “Post-Minimalism” is used by critic Robert Pincus-Witten (born 1935) to describe the contemporary work of Richard Serra (born 1939) and Eva Hesse (1936–1970).

LANDMARK ART
1976 The avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach, by Robert Wilson (born 1941) and composer Philip Glass (born 1937), premieres.

ART INSTALLATION
1977 Walter De Maria (born 1935) installs The Lightning Field near Quemada, New Mexico. In the same year, he re-creates his 1968 Earth Room, a gallery filled with dirt, at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery in New York. With the latter work, De Maria becomes prominently associated with the earthworks movement.

CONTROVERSIAL ART
1979 Artist Sherrie Levine (born 1947) rephotographs images by Walker Evans as a means of making art that questions the notion of originality. Over the next decade, Levine, Dana Birnbaum (born 1946), Barbara Kruger (born 1945), and others will become prominent in the Appropriation Art movement.

ART MUSEUM
1985 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art organizes an exhibition of works by Barbara Kruger (born 1945), which combine found photography and succinct, humorous slogans deconstructing the representations of power inherent in mass-media imagery. Kruger is one of many artists of the 1980s, sometimes dubbed the “pictures generation,” who explore the coercive and seductive dynamics of the media.

ART MOVEMENT
1991 The “grunge” style, originating in Seattle, Washington, becomes nationally fashionable and has an impact on popular music and clothing.

source:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/na/ht11na.htm

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Art Education @ Art Schools in the US

I’m often asked what in my opinion the best art schools are in the United States. So, I researched the topic before making my careful selection. Of course, some schools are better for film and others for fine art/paintings, and others again for art history. And this list is no more than my opinion after research. All rankings are subjective, and there is more to selecting the university that is best for you, beyond its general ranking.

Art Education Stimulates Exploration of New Media
It is important to know that art school is to push your artistic abilities and interests further. So, you may end up graduating from your art school in an other art discipline that what you initially signed up for. So, no matter what your art medium of choice is when going into art school, consider the list below of art colleges and universities.

Art School Personality & Academic Objectives Must Match
Schools like people have personalities. First, the selection criteria for new art students vary from art school to art school. although all want what they call a ’strong portfolio’, a ‘passion for art’, and a ‘good ability to draw from life’.

Approaching it from the other side, prospective art students must research the academic and artistic achievements of faculty and graduates. Do you like what they produce? Does it feel like great art? Inspirational? Also consider if the school’s faculty has strong connections into various art industries. Are they typically the ones who win national awards?

These and your own personal considerations will help you select the fine art school that is best for you.

Ranking US Art Schools

• Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• California College of Arts & Crafts, Berkeley, CA
• California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, CA
• Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
• Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
• School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
• Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
• Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield hills, MI
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Est.1826

According to the 2004 ranking by USNews, for the art specialty of Painting/Drawing, choose
• Yale University, CT
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
• University of California–Los Angeles, CA

According to the 2004 ranking by USNews, for the art specialty of Printmaking, choose
• University of Wisconsin–Madison
• University of Iowa
• Arizona State University
• University of Georgia
• University of Tennessee–Knoxville

According the 2004 USNews rankings, for the art specialty of Sculpture, choose
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Yale University
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Copyright 2008 Astrid Lee – all right reserved.
Do not reproduce article nor list without written permission.

America’s Top Museums & Art Galleries A-K

By A. Lee, copyright 2008.

My list of US-based art museums and public galleries, in alphabetical order.

• Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
  Housed in a renovated seven-floor warehouse building, the Andy Warhol museum displays more than 500 works of art in film, paintings, prints, and drawings, offering a comprehensive presentation of the development of Warhol’s work. The artworks displayed are drawn from its extensive collections of works by Andy Warhol as well as from its huge archives and a collection of works by other artists. An ever-changing gallery.

• Art Institute of Chicago
  This art school has 2 art galleries: Betty Rymer Gallery, which provides a provocative, stimulating forum for the exchange of ideas and discourse on contemporary work in the visual arts, featuring faculty, student, Chicago-based, national and international artists. Gallery 2 and Project Space exhibits innovative and experimental curated works by advanced students.

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• California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
  Large museum with many highest-quality artworks. First, it’s works on paper collection is one of the largest in the US: 74,000 prints, drawings& illustrated books span six centuries (Dürer, Gauguin, Rembrandt, Kandinsky, and O’Keeffe, Japanese prints, Indian miniatures). Includes the Logan Collection of Illustrated artists’ books. Second, its large collection of 750 European masterwork paintings (14-20th century) incld works from Fra Angelico, El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau, Gainsborough, Monet, Bouguereau, Matisse, and Picasso. Third, it holds 8000 objects of European Decorative Art, e.g. furniture, sculpture, other. Last, the Legion of Honor holds 1300 antiquities (pottery, sculpture and metalwork) from the ancient Mediterranea & Near East, including Greece, Rome, Egypt, Assyria, and Mesopotamia.

• Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
  The Center presents six exhibitions annually, featuring both established and emerging artists who represent a diversity in technique and style. Small, contemporary center.

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

• Contemporary Arts Museum – Houston, Houston
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
• Dia Center for the Arts
• Freer gallery of Art & Sackler gallery
• Frick collection

• Guggenheim , New York City
• Harvard University art Museums, Boston

Also see:
America’s top museums & art galleries L-Z

Copyright 2008, Astrid Lee. All rights reserved.
Do not copy list without written permission.

Why Bother With Art Colleges?

If you are pretty talented at art you might not even consider going to Art College. Why should you, anyway? You can draw like the masters: Boticelli, Michaelangeo, Da Vinci. There wasn’t a landscape scene your brushes didn’t like, and there wasn’t any portrait you couldn’t draw. You can sketch anything that exists!

But as with any talent, you must have realized that this is one big world we live in. There is always room for improvement, and although your work might speak for itself, a degree behind you may be just what employers are looking for. Therefore, you muster all your reserves; you pack your easel, your brushes, and your palette and head north to the nearest art college.

1. Good choice?

Art school will definitely benefit you as an artist. Your innate talent will benefit from the proven concepts and techniques you can learn here. It may be that you already know the basics and the techniques of your art. Rest assured that there are always things the art school can teach you that you won’t already know.

Art school also develops in its students a love and appreciation for the different forms of art. It opens to the student new vistas of learning and expressing. Even if only for that reason, Art school would be worth every penny.

2. Who Is Art School Suited For?

Artists are a rare kind. They seem to be able to create masterpieces without complicated theories and computations. It’s as if they are moved by instinct to draw, paint, and create visually pleasing artworks. Some artists, when asked about their artwork, would simply shrug and say they didn’t know what motivated them, and they just felt like painting it. Art school should not aim to correct this freewheeling style of artistry. It should, however, provide the basic techniques and theories on art and creativity. Instead of suppressing natural skill, it should develop and enlighten it by explaining the concepts behind art. Unlike what most people think, there truly is a science behind art.

Artists sometimes just create art. But after Art College, they come to a realization of theories behind what they have done by instinct. Fundamental theories can only improve and supplement the talent students have.

3. What to Learn?

When choosing an Arts College, look into the nature of its programs.

- Is it solely a graphic design school or does it offer courses in other specific areas?

- Is this school well-known for its emphasis on its programs?

- Is the school recognized internationally?

- Is the class size large or small?

- How many years will the program be in total?

- Does the school provide any statistics or downloadable documents outlining the percentage of its graduates that are now working in their chosen field?

4. Specialize!

Remember that the subject of art is not just a big blob with the label art. It is composed of numerous subcategories and specializations. You need to choose a specialization because if you don’t, your skills will be diffused trying to learn the many branches of art. Try to improve the most at the area of your interest. It could be painting, sculpture, digital arts or others.

5. Be The Best

Also, look into whether the school participates in any graphical arts competitions or has accomplished anything of renown in the industry. This is a sure sign of their commitment to the arts and the education of its students. One of the best things one can get out of Art College is exposure to competition and industry standards. Such competition pushes one from being complacent. If you are to be a better artist, you should never be satisfied with what you already know. You should grab the opportunity to learn new and exciting things.

6. Conclusion

Your education might be the most important investment you make in your life. Without proper training, your chances at success are greatly diminished. A proper Art college will certainly train you and equip you with the tools needed to make it big in your profession.

About the Author

By Linda Emerson. Linda seems to be taking a sabbatical from her prior site, www. art school site. com, which is currently not available. She’s no doubt currently working on other projects – so stay tuned. Meanwhile…:

Exploring Careers in the Arts

Perhaps you are trying to figure out what kind of career is best for you in the future, or maybe you even are looking for a career change in your life. If so, one very fun and stimulating field to consider is the arts. A career in the arts can be very exciting and there are many different career choices to consider within the field. If you find yourself enjoying and excelling in artistic pursuits such as painting, drawing, or even photography, then it may be time to explore what this career field can offer you.

Before you make a career decision, it is usually a great idea to take a closer look at the field you are considering, so make sure that you fully explore what a career in the arts has to offer you. Exciting Careers (painter, illustrator, photography, animation, art historian, art director)

Within the field of the arts, there are many different careers that you can consider, depending on where your interests and abilities lie. If you are interested in this field and you enjoy history, you may want to consider a career as an art historian. This is a great career for those who love the arts but are not interested in actually producing the artwork themselves. Art historians have many different options available, including teaching and research.

Another great career in this field is an illustrator. Whether you enjoy drawing comic characters, or more serious and advanced illustrations, there are great careers available in this field. Illustrating comic books or children’s books is a great choice, and for those who prefer the more serious side, illustrating text books and medical books is a very lucrative option as well.

Some people who enjoy expressing themselves on canvass may find that a job as a painter is a great idea for them. Whether you display your art in galleries, paint by commission, or teach painting at a local college, this is a great career choice. Some other careers in the art industry include working in animation, photography, and as an art director.

Preparing for the Arts

The type of preparation that you will need for a career in the arts is highly dependent on which specific career you decide to pursue. As a general rule, most careers in the arts will require that you have a bachelors degree if you want to be successful. While some art careers such as woodworking, glass working, and quilting do not require such a degree, it is usually not as easy to fully support yourself in art without a degree.

If you intend to teach in the art field, then you will not only need a bachelor’s degree, but you will also need your teaching certificate. For those interesting in fine arts such as painting or drawing, there are various art schools that basically have a studio environment that will offer instruction and the opportunity to develop your skills.

Money Matters

Most people want to know what the money making potential is before they enter a specific field. In the arts industry, the salary you make will depend on your specific job and the company that you are working for as well. Art directors are some of the higher paid workers in this field, and they generally earn between $40,000 and $100,000 per year, depending on company and their experience.

On the low end of the spectrum, craft artists such as glass workers and wood workers usually make between $20,000-$30,000 each year. Fine artists such as painters, illustrators, and sculptors usually can expect to make between $25,000 and $40,000 a year.

Many people involved in the arts are self-employed, in fact better than 50% are self-employed. Those who are self-employed can have varying salaries depending on their specific field, and their success as an artist.

Excellent Employers

While many artists are self-employed, there are others who work for established companies as well. While self employment has many advantages, working for a company often provides a better salary and great benefits.

Some of the best companies to work for in the United States include Walt Disney, Personal Preference Inc., and the New Museum for Contemporary Art. There are great companies available in Canada as well, which include Canada Council for the Arts, the Emily Carr Institute of Art, and Organic Inc. These are just a few of the great employers in the arts, so be sure to explore your options, and look for companies that offer excellent benefits and a great salary.

By Fei Lim

About the author

Seek4jobs.net is the place to find the jobs you like and informations about specific careers in the work force. Look for informations in arts at Seek4Jobs.net.

The Importance of Visual Arts in Schools

Visual arts are a class of art forms that include: painting, sculpture, photography, and other disciplines that focus on the creation of artworks which are primarily visual in nature. Visual arts are said to be important in schools since they tend to develop the intelligence, as well as the overall personality of students. In fact, studies have shown that students who are exposed to visual arts tend to display above average intelligence when it comes to mathematics and science.

Likewise, students who are greatly exposed to visual arts have been observed to exhibit refined manners and develop a much-matured outlook on life. Most educators have also noticed that students perform better in class when visual arts are incorporated in their curriculum.

Moreover, visual arts provide meaningful self-expression of all students. This is also the reason why a great number of educators have integrated visual arts in some of their subject areas in the curriculum. Visual arts educators make use of rich arrays of content to design curriculum that will enable students to be able to meet various standards at different grade levels.

In order to meet the standards, students must be able to learn vocabularies as well as some concepts that are associated with diverse types of work in the visual arts. Likewise, students are expected to exhibit their competence in various levels in visual, oral, and written form. As early as kindergarten, children are taught how to make choices that would enhance the communication of their creative ideas.

Students that are in the middle grades are expected to apply the knowledge as well as the skills in the visual arts to their ever-expanding personal world. Students at this level tend to consider visual art works within its historical concepts that creates in them a deeper appreciation of their own values, and likewise appreciate the values of others and somehow discover the connection of visual arts to the universal needs of people in terms of their values and beliefs.

Students in the higher levels are expected to create more complex and insightful works of visual arts that will reflect the maturation of their creative as well as their problem-solving skills. And although, visual arts classes make use of varied tools, techniques, and processes, students are expected to understand the relationship of different types of media, styles, forms, techniques as well as some of the processes involved in the creation of their own form of visual art. Students are also taught how to recognize the intrinsic value of visual arts and what makes it important in the lives of all educated persons.

Visual arts are also used in therapy procedures for aiding child development. Visual arts assist in educating disabled children, especially those who are blind and have hearing problems. Aside from that, visual arts also help in building communities, mural projects, and are also used to provide education for mentally ill individuals.

At present continuous studies are being conducted to discover more benefits derived from incorporating visual arts in educating students.

By Simon Oliver

About the Author
Simon Oliver has an interest in Arts. To access more articles on Art schools or for additional information and resources visit this visual arts related website. A&CNet Art & Craft Article Directory

Choosing an Art School for Interior Design

Interior design is one of the subbranches within the school of design. Choosing how to go into such a career warrants research. This interesting article provides an overview and some essential information for those interested in pursuing a career in interior design.

Interior Design School – Overview and Essentials

The field of interior design is always changing. Not so long ago, you had to go to a formal design or Art school in order to learn the field. Today students can attend almost any college or university and major in interior design.

Meeting License Requirements

Professional interior designers today must be licensed by the industry in order to practice their trade. Much like an architect, they must undergo intensive study and testing before even being allowed to take any licensing testing. The NCIDQ (National Council for Interior Design Qualification), requires all testers to have a combination of six years of work experience, two years of schooling plus four years of work experience, or four years in a FIDER accredited university or college plus two years of work experience in order to qualify. This intensive procedure ensures that trade licensing helps to create responsible, educated designers.

At minimum, student designers should look for a college or university that is FIDER accredited and works towards a bachelor’s degree – required for commercial work. However, most high-end designers also obtain a master’s degree or a doctorate in design. What type of classes should would-be designers consider? AutoCAD by AutoDesk, is an excellent computer aided drafting course. Those with some experience and knowledge of this software program can command a higher starting rate than those who haven’t taken the time to learn anything about it.

Getting Established In the Market Place

Business classes, as well as a variety of marketing courses are also a plus that many students don’t consider. Interior design is 90% networking, marketing, selling, and knowing the right people; 7% paperwork and 3% design.

Learn to Not Be Shy

Some professional designer’s even suggest taking an acting class or two to help you learn how to make better sales pitches.

Art classes too can help you be better prepared when taking with clients. People are visual and you’ll have a better shot at convincing a new client of your ideas if you can sketch them. Also consider taking an art, furniture and antique history class. They all come in to play every day in the design industry.

No Matter What: Learn to Work

Design school can be very intense. Not only do you have traditional classes and a normal workload of reading, tests and other class work, but you will be expected to complete very large-scale design projects along the way also.

Clarify Your Career Choice – Design has MANY Options

One important aspect of your new career that design school can help make clear is what area of interior design you will find most successful and rewarding. They’re many different fields to enter in the design profession. There are residential interior designers whose sole purpose is to serve homeowners, and there are commercial interior designers who work on offices, restaurants, banks, malls, hotels, and on and on. Within each of these specialties, you could be a project manager heading up the entire project or a draftsperson or even a product sales representative.

Get Ready for a New Career

Some designers decide that they’d rather own or operate a drapery workroom or fabric warehouse, a design firm, be a partner in a firm, a painter, wallpaper hanger, carpet layer or any of a hundred other design specialists! How you ultimately use your designer’s education is really up to you, your interest, and your talent level.

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Where to Study Art in the US

This article contains a list of well-known Art Schools in the US, East-coast and West-coast.

1. Academy of Art University. San Francisco, CA

2. San Francisco Art Institute , San Francisco, CA
3. California College of Arts & crafts, Berkeley, CA
4. California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, CA
5. Art Center College of Design , Pasadena, CA
6. NYU Tisch shool of the arts , New York, NY
7. School of Visual Arts , New York, NY
8. Rhode Island School of design
9. University of the Arts , Philadelphia, pa
10. School of The Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago
11. Cranbrook Academy of art , Bloomfield Hills, MI
12. Maryland Institute College of Art , est.1826

Bonus: Some International Art Schools

1. Rietveld Acadamy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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