Careers in the Arts
Your future awaits; see the possibilities
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, over a 10-year period from 2006 to 2016, jobs for photographers, museum curators and archivists, motion picture and video artists, graphic designers and artists are projected to increase an average of 13% to 735,000.
Below are just some of the potential professions available to students upon graduation from KCAI.
ANIMATION
- 3-D computer imagist
- advertising artist
- concept/layout/storyboard artist
- designer
- educator
- film/video animator
- illustrator
- interactive media designer
- special effects designer
- web designer
ART HISTORY
- art critic
- author
- college professor
- curator
- exhibition designer
- magazine writer/editor
- studio artist
CERAMICS
- educator
- freelance artist
- gallery director
- installation artist
- mold maker
- museum conservator
- sculptor
- studio artist
- terra cotta and tile restorer
- toy designer
Creative Writing
- advertising copywriter
- creative director
- critic/reviewer
- freelance writer
- journalist
- magazine writer/editor
- novelist
- playwright
- poet
- professor
- short-story writer
- teacher
- television or movie scriptwriter
- web copywriter
Fiber
- business owner/entrepreneur
- costume designer
- design consultant
- fashion designer
- fine paper maker
- freelance artist
- hand-painted textile artist
- production weaver
- professor
- sculptor
- set designer
- studio artist
- textile designer
Filmmaking
- animator
- cinematographer
- digital artist
- director
- director of photography
- editor
- experimental animation
- lead artist on animated films
- motion graphics
- producer
- production manager
- scriptwriter
- sound design
- video maker
Graphic design
- art director
- creative director
- desktop publisher
- entrepreneur/business owner
- environmental graphic designer
- identity system designer
- illustrator
- multimedia designer
- publication/print media designer
- retail graphic designer
- textbook designer
- web designer
Illustration
- art director
- book illustrator
- cartoonist
- children’s book illustrator
- creative director
- digital artist
- editorial illustrator
- entry-level animator
- fashion illustrator
- greeting/e-card designer
- medical illustrator
- print media designer
- production artist
- publishing designer
- science illustrator
- sequential artist
- story board artist
Interactive Arts
- 3-D modeling artist
- advertising artist
- electronic game designer
- film/video animator
- interactive media designer
- motion graphics artist
- multimedia designer
- video editor
- visual effects artists
- Web designer
Painting
- curator
- exhibiting artist
- film scene artist
- freelance artist
- gallery director
- muralist
- portraitist
- professor
- story board illustrator
Photography
- commercial studio owner
- curator
- documentary photographer
- fashion photographer
- fine art photographer
- freelance photographer
- photo archivist
- photography conservator
- photojournalist
- portrait photographer
- professor
Printmaking
- book artist
- college recruiter
- commercial printer
- curator
- digital technician
- educator
- lithographer
- master printer
- print production manager
- print technician
Sculpture
- architectural details artist
- conservator
- foundry owner/worker
- industrial designer
- puppeteer
- restorer
- set designer
- studio artist
- teacher/professor
- toy designer