Career Opportunities
Careers in Art
Create a future that allows you to use your passion, curiosity and energy to find connections and bring new visual ideas to life. 在大学毕业后的生活中,有很多机会可以运用你在视觉艺术方面的技能和创造力. 72%的商业领袖表示,创造力是他们招聘时最看重的技能. Many CSC Art alumni have become art educators, commercial artists, graphic designers, art entrepreneurs, and studio artists or go on to graduate school.
Art Education
Working as an art educator is a popular and rewarding career path for many artists. 艺术教育工作者有许多地区就业机会,许多CSC艺术学生被聘为小学教师, middle, and high schools. Other employment opportunities include workshop instructors and museum education. At Chadron State College, 有抱负的艺术教育者学习工作室艺术实践和教学方法,使他们成为高素质的教师,同时也是实践艺术家.
CSC Art grad, Travis Hencey, 曾在内布拉斯加州艺术委员会和地区场馆展示过他的作品,是查德隆高中的艺术老师. |
CSC Art grad, Kayla DeSersa, is a middle school art teacher in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
CSC Art Education students create and teach art lessons at the CSC Child Development Center. |
CSC艺术教育学生在CSC图书馆的艺术特殊方法课上进行虚拟绘画实验. |
CSC Art Education students attend the South Dakota Art Education Conference in Spearfish, South Dakota. |
Why is Art Education Important?
Art education is vital need for students of all ages. 研究表明,艺术教育可以提高学生的积极性和出勤率,并提高学习成绩. 学生受益于视觉艺术的全面和连续的学习,从合格的教师谁是艺术教育认证. 视觉艺术是一种通用语言,有助于在全球社会中理解多元文化,有助于丰富人类经验和发挥人类潜力.
- www.arteducators.org
- www.nebraskaarteducators.org
- www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/arts-education
- www.arteducators.org/research/art-education-journal
If you would like to visit in-person about our art education program, contact
Trudy Denham
Assistant Professor of Art
Chadron State College
Phone: 308-432-6326
tdenham@callpinger.com
Mailing address:
Art
Chadron State College
1000 Main Street
Chadron, Nebraska 69337
Graphic Design
对于艺术专业的学生来说,毕业后更受欢迎和繁荣的谋生方式之一是在商业艺术或平面设计领域. But graphic design is more than computers and software. 平面设计是结合视觉语言和技术来传达思想的创造性和智力过程. It is the process of finding visual solutions for problems.
If you would like to visit in-person about our graphic design program, contact
Mary Donahue
Professor of Art
Chadron State College
Phone: 308-432-6325
mdonahue@callpinger.com
Mailing address:
Art
Chadron State College
1000 Main Street
Chadron, Nebraska 69337
What is Graphic Design?
“Graphic design is the most ubiquitous of all the arts. It responds to needs at once personal and public, embraces concerns both economic and ergonomic, and is informed by many disciplines, including art and architecture, philosophy and ethics, literature and language, science and politics and performance.
“Graphic design is everywhere, touching everything we do, everything we see, everything we buy: we see it on billboards and in Bibles, on taxi receipts and on websites, on birth certificates and on gift certificates, 在阿斯匹林罐子里折叠的圆形纸上,在孩子们胖乎乎的纸板书的厚页上.
“Graphic design is the boldly directional arrows on street signs and the blurred, frenetic typography on the title sequence to E.R. 它是纽约喷气机队的亮绿色标志和《ladbrokes立博官网》的单色头版. It is hang-tags in clothing stores, postage stamps and food packaging, fascist propaganda posters and brainless junk mail.
“Graphic design is complex combinations of words and pictures, numbers and charts, photographs and illustrations that, in order to succeed, 需要一个特别有思想的人的清晰思维,他可以协调这些元素,使它们都加起来与众不同, or useful, or playful, or surprising, or subversive or somehow memorable.
“Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.”
—Jessica Helfand, www.aiga.org/what-is-graphic-design-video
Who becomes a graphic designer? - from AIGA Career Guide
www.aiga.org/content.cfm/guide-whobecomesdesigner
What kinds of jobs are out there?
- www.creativehotlist.com
- webdesignerwall.com/general/jobs-for-designers-and-developers
- www.ucda.com/jobs
- designjobs.aiga.org/public/jobs_browse.asp
- www.authenticjobs.com
- www.behance.net/joblist
- www.coroflot.com
- www.krop.com
What kinds of salaries do designers make?
www.aiga.org/content.cfm/salary-survey
Links of interest
- www.aiga.org
- ucda.com
- www.graphis.com
- www.aaaa.org
- www.adcouncil.org
- www.adcglobal.org
- www.commarts.com
- www.printmag.com
- www.atypi.org
- www.colormarketing.org
- www.societyillustrators.org
- www.digitalthread.com
Animation
Many students express an interest in the field of animation. While CSC does not instruct specifically in animation programs, 它确实侧重于绘画和设计的基本原理,这是动画的必要基础.
At a recent Meet the Pros conference in Omaha, 我们与Phenomblue的Jimm Wagner进行了交谈,他为那些有兴趣学习动画的人推荐了以下资源.
- www.animationmentor.com (Instruction online over 18 months. 它由包括皮克斯和工业光魔在内的一些最大的动画工作室的专家指导. More on animationmentor below.)
- www.lynda.com (Video lessons on just about any software program out there.)
- www.thegnomonworkshop.com (Contains video lessons on 2D, 3D, animation, drawing, painting, etc.)
- www.digitaltutors.com (Contains video lessons for VFXs, 3D, and animation.)
以下是三个展示行业和个人才能以及新闻的图形门户网站…
Other resources
To direct yourself towards a career in animation the information below may be helpful.
IPAX began with six schools and has expanded to 11 member schools: Animation Mentor, Carnegie Mellon, DePaul University Computer Graphics and Animation Program, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Otis College of Art + Design, Pratt Institute School of Art & Design, Ringling College of Art & Design, Stanford, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
Go to Animation School Wherever You Are
Another IPAX member school, Animation Mentor, based in Berkeley, California, teaches students all over the world via the Internet. Launched in March 2005 by animators Carlos Baena, Bobby Beck (president/CEO) and Shawn Kelly, 学校的课程100%致力于角色动画,并以创始人希望他们在学校时能够学习的方式教授动画艺术.
动画导师计划由六个不同的课程(学期)组成,每个课程为18个月的完整课程. It is a feedback-driven, 基于工作室制作系统的在线课程,将动画学生与在职专业人士(导师)配对。. The mentors act as teachers to students from more than 50 countries all over the world.
“Animation Mentor缩小了工作世界和教育过程之间的差距,并为毕业生在进入永久工作室之前将遇到的周期性世界做好了准备," notes Beck. "With the help of my partners and our amazing team of mentors, Animation Mentor remains in close touch with the ebb and flow of the animation business, with creative trends, new tools, technologies and more."
Like the students, mentors come from all over the world, from studios such as Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, DreamWorks/PDI, Sony, Tippett and Zoic in California, House of Cool and Nelvana in Canada, Reel FX in Texas, and Blue Sky in New York. 德国的学生有可能从加州的动画师那里学到壁球和拉伸等基本原理, and principles of body mechanics from an animator in Canada in the next class.
For more information about Animation Mentor, visit its www.animationmentor.com or email admissions@animationmentor.com.
Video Editing
Art Studio
What every artist wants to be … an artist
Of course the main goal of an artist is, well, to be an artist. To do their own creative work. An art major with the option of art studio focuses on learning the craft of fine art. In the Art program at Chadron State College, artists can explore drawing, painting, printmaking, design, ceramics, sculpture, fiber or experimenting with multiple mediums. Your college career is only the beginning of this lifelong process of being an artist.
CSC Art grad, Whitney Tewahade, is an artist, art entrepreneur, and owner of TaDa Studio and quilting studio/supply in downtown Chadron. |
CSC Art student, Kayla DeSersa works on her throwing technique. |
CSC Art grad, Timm Hoff, exhibits his work around the region and has been an Artist in Residence in Nebraska schools. |
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CSC Art students view a special screening of Art 21, 《ladbrokes立博中文版》是美国公共广播公司的纪录片系列,以当代艺术家的作品和他们自己的语言为特色. |
Art Alumni
Artist Scott Christensen
But it can take many years and much hard work and, in the meantime, one has to eat. A starving artist cannot starve for too long. So finding a day job (or maybe a night job) which still lets you do your art is a good idea. A job that is art-related can be inspiring.
Here are some suggestions…
- Working in a museum or gallery
www.aam-us.org
www.denverartmuseum.org
www.art-collecting.com
www.sheldonartgallery.org - Becoming an intern or assistant to an established artist
- Working in a sculpture foundry or glass studio
- Working as an arts administrator or fundraiser or for an arts council
www.arts.nebraska.gov
wyoarts.state.wy.us
www.artscouncil.sd.gov
www.artsforcolorado.org
www.coloradolinks.net
art.mt.gov
www.iowaartscouncil.org
Arts councils also offer excellent resources for artists. Check the art council sites for calls for entry for art shows. As an artist, it is important to enter your work in shows and build your résumé. 许多艺术展现在都有在线数字评委服务,为艺术展的评委处理数字图像. 这些网站还提供有关如何准备数码图像以发送给展会的信息.
There are many other websites with helpful information and resources for artists.
想想你在大学里还可以选修什么课程,或者在学生时期可以做些什么实习,这些都能给你将来从事与艺术相关的工作带来经验.
One route many artists take is to go on to graduate school. 研究生院让艺术家有更多的时间专注和探索,找到自己的艺术声音(这也可能帮助你为自己的艺术找到市场).研究生院可能提供的另一个优势是在大学水平上教授艺术的证书和经验. This usually requires a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in your chosen art medium. This is the terminal degree or highest degree one can receive in art studio. Teaching allows you to be around art all day, 从你的学生那里获得灵感,在夏天有一些额外的时间来做你的艺术作品.
作为一名专业艺术家,将你的作品参加展览并开始建立你的履历是很重要的, as is the craftsmanship and constant improvement in your skill.
You can be an artist if that is your dream but it takes courage, hard work and long hours.
The Chadron State College Art program offers an extensive gallery exhibit schedule 来自全国各地的专业艺术家,以及访问艺术家,他们与学生分享自己的经验. Art students also gain experience by designing and hanging their own art shows.
Chadron州立学院的艺术课程旨在激励和帮助你成为你想成为的艺术家!
If you would like to visit in-person about our studio art program, contact
Laura Bentz
Professor of Art
Chadron State College
Phone: 308-432-6324
lbentz@callpinger.com
Mailing address:
Art
Chadron State College
1000 Main Street
Chadron, Nebraska 69337