Career Opportunities
Albion graduates in both art and art history bring outstanding abilities to professional careers or graduate studies -- in critical and creative thought, technical knowledge and skills, and a broad-based approach to problem-solving fostered by the liberal arts tradition. Recent graduates have pursued advanced studies in many specific studio areas, art history, arts management, animation, graphic art and architecture. Many enjoy careers in design, communications, World Wide Web design, advertising, museum and gallery positions, art therapy, and education.
These are some of the careers to consider when thinking about getting a degree in art and art history:
| Advertising | Foundry Worker |
| Animator | Furniture Designer |
| Antiques Dealer | Furniture Maker |
| Appraiser | Gallery Director |
| Architect | Grant Writer |
| Architectural Historian | Habitat Sculptor |
| Architectural Model Maker | International Art Trade |
| Art Critic | Interior Designer |
| Art Historian | Jewelry Designer |
| Art Restorer | Landscape Designer |
| Art School Technician | Lawyer, Specializing in Art |
| Art Teacher | Librarian for Art Museum |
| Art Therapist | Make up Artist |
| Artist | Manager of a Corporate Collection |
| Arts Management | Marketing |
| Author | Medical Illustrator |
| Book Artist | Mould Maker |
| Book Binder | Museum Educator |
| Book Illustrator | Package Designer |
| Ceramicist | Painter |
| Cinematographer | Paper Maker |
| Community Arts Programmer | Photographer |
| Computer Graphics | Photo Journalist |
| Conservator | Poet |
| Costume Designer/Creator | Printer |
| Cultural Critic | Printmaker |
| Curator (museum, gallery, auction house, corporate collection, public institution, private collection or foundation) | Professor Registrar (museum, gallery, auction house, corporate collection, public institution, private collection or foundation) |
| Display Designer | Reviewer for Magazine or Newspaper |
| Documentary Filmmaker | Sculptor |
| Educator (museum, gallery, auction house, corporate collection, public institution, private collection or foundation) | Set Designer |
| Entrepreneur | Underwater Cinematographer |
| Event Planner | Video and Film Editor |
| Fabric/Textile Designer | Videographer |
| Fashion Designer/Buyer | Website Designer |
| Film Maker | Writer-Contemporary Art Criticism |