Career Opportunities

Albion graduates in both art and art history bring to professional careers or graduate studies outstanding abilities 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, website 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 Animator Antiques dealer Appraiser Architect Architectural historian Architectural model maker Art critic Art historian Art restorer Art school technician Art teacher Art therapist Artist Arts management Author Book artist Book binder Book illustrator Ceramicist Cinematographer Community arts programmer Computer graphics Conservator Costume designer/creator Cultural critic Curator (museum, gallery, auction house, corporate collection, public institution, private collection or foundation) Display designer Documentary filmmaker Educator (museum, gallery, auction house, corporate collection, public institution, private collection or foundation) Entrepreneur Event planner Fabric/textile designer Fashion designer/buyer Film maker

Foundry worker Furniture designer Furniture maker Gallery director Grant writer Habitat sculptor International art trade Interior designer Jewelry designer Landscape designer Lawyer, specializing in art Librarian for art museum Make up artist Manager of a corporate collection Marketing Medical illustrator Mould maker Museum educator Package designer Painter Paper maker Photographer Photo journalist Poet Printer Printmaker Professor Registrar (museum, gallery, auction house, corporate collection, public institution, private collection or foundation) Reviewer for magazine or newspaper Sculptor Set designer Underwater cinematographer Video and film editor Videographer Website designer Writer-contemporary art criticism