Career Information
Our Art Degree leads to a variety of career paths related to art and design. Our purpose is to provide graduates with maximum flexibility to customize their career trajectory.
Art Graduates are equipped to:
- Enter the workforce directly in an arts related career, OR, on another path (creative skills translate well to any occupation)
- Pursue additional educational opportunities in a university Arts Program, or another degree
Earning an Art degree is beneficial no matter what direction a student's career ends up taking because the skills gained in this degree are applicable across disciplines.
These skills include:
- Effective self expressoin
- Critical thinking
- Design thinking
- Creative problem solving
- Visual literacy
- Collaboration
- Self-motivation
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Adaptability
- The ability to give and receive constructive feedback
- Advertising Artist
- Advertising Designer
- Animator
- Architect
- Archivist
- Art Critic
- Art Director
- Art Educator
- Art Therapist
- Commercial Photographer
- Conservator
- Craft Artist
- Curator
- Exhibit Designer
- Exhibition Coordinator
- Fashion Designer
- Fine Artist
- Gallerist
- Graphic Art/Printing Technician
- Graphic Designer
- Illustrator
- Makeup and Wig Designer
- Multimedia Artist
- Photographic Process Worker
- Photo Journalist
- Art Directors: $93k
- Craft Artists: $40k
- Fine Artists & Illustrators: $49k
- Multimedia Artists and Animators: $72k
- Fashion Designers: $73k
- Graphic Designers: $50k
- Archivists, Curators, and Museum Workers: $48k
- Primary Educators: $58k
- Secondary Educators: $60k
- Postsecondary Educator: $78k
- Architects: $79k
- Art Editors: $59k
- Art Therapists: $51k
- Photographic Process Workers: $29k
- Commercial Photographer: $34k
- Designers, All Others: $60k
- Artists and Related Workers, All Others: $65k
- Graphic Art/Printing Technician: 40k
*Median salaries listed are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics