Career Opportunities
Albion College offers scholarships for students interested in Art or Art History. Awards are based on an evaluation of each candidate’s artwork and/or scholarship.
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
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