Career Exploration

Artist:


There is no specific degree or certification in becoming an artist but most artists benefit on going to school and college but certificate and degree programs in fine arts is available in most colleges. Going to college is a benefit also because a post-secondary art program can provide artists with an understanding of the history, techniques, and different mediums of art. From going to school you also benefit from sharing ideas with classmates.

Alma college, Aquinas college, Calvin college, College for creative studies, Central Michigan University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ferris State University, Hope college, Lansing Community college, Madonna University, Marygrove college, Michigan State University, Oakland University, Saginaw Valley state University, Finlandia University, University of Michigan, University of Michigan-Flint, Wayne State University, and Western Michigan University all have the programs I need.Most take about four years to get necessary training and very few take two years minimum. It costs about $1,267,922,000 to get the necessary education and training.

Work I will be doing is a various wide amount of artwork from Painting, Drawing, to Architecture. An entry wage would be $20.19 hourly and annual would be 41,990. A median wage would be $30.82 hourly and annual would be $64,110.An experienced wage would be $40.69 and annual would be $84,640.



Industrial Designer:

A Bachelors degree is needed in industrial designing and is required. This is only in private colleges spreaded across the country. Schools require one year of basic Art and designing class before they can go into the bachelors program.

Artistic capability combines of Science and technology also problem solving and communication skills. Industrial designers should have an understanding of business skills too. Most workers need to be capable of working on their own in this job also.

Schools that support this program(in Michigan) are college for creative studies(Detroit Michigan, 4yr), Ferris State University(Big Rapids Michigan 4yr), Kirtland community college(Roscommon Michigan 2yr), Northern Michigan University(Marquette Michigan 4yr), Finlandia University(Hancock Michigan 4yr), University of Michigan(Ann Arbor Michigan 4yr), Washtenaw Community College(Ann Arbor Michigan 2yr), Western Michigan University(Kalamazoo Michigan 4yr).

For training it takes about two or four years of training at most colleges. Work I will be doing is consulting with marketers and manufacturers to decide what new products are needed, and how the product will be used. They also research the cost of the product, how it will be produced, and what materials will be used. Also design new products and style which is the main idea of the job.

After researching these they both seem like a really good job for me. After comparing though I think I would like being an Artist more and Do my own thing and create more various amounts of different types of projects. Also why I think being an artist would be better is because I like to do my own drawings at my own paste and make sure they have very good design and effort put into them. My second option I would choose would be an Industrial designer because that could also work because it has designing in it also. I am also thinking about going to an out of state college for becoming an artist’s because it would be a fun adventure to go to another state with a very good training program too. It also surprises me that there are a lot of colleges for both of these careers around the United states and most require two to three years of college. Also there are a lot more colleges for Artists. My Career pathway is Arts and communications for sure and I think I am going into college for training to become an artist and most likely out of state.