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Kendall
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What college major can I get, If I'm interested in the field of art?
I currently starting high school, and have been receiving a class on how to prepare for your future, and I want to follow a career path that has to with art. I'm talking about something like becoming a filmmaker, graphic designer or architect.
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Lisa Irving
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You are considering a broad art career, and each area you explore could lead to many job opportunities. If you attend art school, you'll start with a foundation program that helps narrow your focus into specific areas of interest. Let me explain through my own path.
I graduated high school feeling that art classes suited me best as a potential career. I initially wanted to become an illustrator because I loved painting and drawing. Although I took a film college program in high school and enjoyed it, I found that I preferred hands-on work. When I entered college, everyone took foundation classes alongside students majoring in film/video, fine arts, art education, industrial design, and more. By the second year, we began to focus on our specific fields, and some students even changed their majors.
What’s important is to be honest with yourself about who you are. I chose to pursue commercial art (Art Direction) because I was worried about not being able to make money as a fine artist. However, there are ways to earn a living in art, no matter what you choose. Now, I live in a building filled with artists. I worked as a commercial artist for 17 years, which I enjoyed, but sitting at a computer for long hours was challenging. After starting a family, I changed careers to work with people in art therapy, which allowed me to reconnect with fine art. I create art projects for others and show my work.
Many artists don’t necessarily change careers but instead evolve into better artists. For instance, I worked for a well-known artist whose pieces are in the Brooklyn Museum. She was primarily known for ceramics but later in life received an industrial art degree and became a glass artist. I also have a cousin who studied business, earned an MBA, and now sells his printmaking throughout the country. He's known by many as an artist with no degree in art.
Follow your heart and do what you enjoy. You might be surprised at how you can find your own place in this world. Even looking at schools, you don't need to go to a very fancy expensive school to have a career. I worked side people with only associates degree. Experience all these area you talk about by taken classes, reading information and feeling out who you are.
I never knew that artist are welcome around the world with residences where they get paid to work, teach and learn all over the world. It's something younger artist do.
I graduated high school feeling that art classes suited me best as a potential career. I initially wanted to become an illustrator because I loved painting and drawing. Although I took a film college program in high school and enjoyed it, I found that I preferred hands-on work. When I entered college, everyone took foundation classes alongside students majoring in film/video, fine arts, art education, industrial design, and more. By the second year, we began to focus on our specific fields, and some students even changed their majors.
What’s important is to be honest with yourself about who you are. I chose to pursue commercial art (Art Direction) because I was worried about not being able to make money as a fine artist. However, there are ways to earn a living in art, no matter what you choose. Now, I live in a building filled with artists. I worked as a commercial artist for 17 years, which I enjoyed, but sitting at a computer for long hours was challenging. After starting a family, I changed careers to work with people in art therapy, which allowed me to reconnect with fine art. I create art projects for others and show my work.
Many artists don’t necessarily change careers but instead evolve into better artists. For instance, I worked for a well-known artist whose pieces are in the Brooklyn Museum. She was primarily known for ceramics but later in life received an industrial art degree and became a glass artist. I also have a cousin who studied business, earned an MBA, and now sells his printmaking throughout the country. He's known by many as an artist with no degree in art.
Follow your heart and do what you enjoy. You might be surprised at how you can find your own place in this world. Even looking at schools, you don't need to go to a very fancy expensive school to have a career. I worked side people with only associates degree. Experience all these area you talk about by taken classes, reading information and feeling out who you are.
I never knew that artist are welcome around the world with residences where they get paid to work, teach and learn all over the world. It's something younger artist do.
Devin Warrington-Brown
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There are many art-related majors in college, but teach college offers their own selection of art-related majors. Some majors that I'm familiar with are Design, Film and Media Studies, Art History, Art Practice, Theater and Performance Studies, and Sustainable Architecture. It's also common for college students to change their majors, as many students don't come to a final decision on their declared major until their second or third year.