Career Day: Links to your future
ART, DIGITAL ART, and MUSIC
Digital Arts Program http://www.roch.edu/dept/digiart
Music Department http://www.roch.edu/dept/music
Art Department http://www.roch.edu/dept/art
For Digital Arts Program information, including Computer Art & Design,
Graphic Design, Multimedia and Music Technolgoy, in addition to other
programs, including the Photography certificate, go to
http://www.rctc.edu/catalog/2004-Fall-Archive/programs/index.html
For more information or specific questions, please contact Linda Malec:
phone 507-280-5031 or linda.malec@roch.edu
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Fine Arts
http://www.mnartists.org
– opportunities geared specifically for Minnesota Artists
http://nyfa.org –
New York Foundation for the Arts
http://nceca.net –
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
The more well known art careers include fine art, portrait painting, art
education, and illustration. However, there are many career opportunities
that start in the basic drawing and painting and design classes that many
people are not aware of, including: art therapy, medical illustration,
art administration, and many, many more. Skills and perspectives acquired
in the study of Fine Arts are important in all aspects of creation. Fine
Arts can include visual, performance and audio art. The websites listed
above are excellent resources for people interested in the arts. The New
York Foundation for the Arts (www.nyfa.org) is a website with an incredibly
comprehensive database including: job opportunities in the arts, residencies,
exhibition opportunities, professional and business advice and articles
for artists, grant and award opportunities, and so much more.
Photography:
http://www.careeroverview.com/photography-careers.html
– Photographic careers
http://www.studentphoto.com
– community of student photographers
Photographers capture images that visualize a story or event. Both creative
and technical skills help them create a quality photographs. This includes
manipulating lighting procedures, lenses, or subject environments to achieve
the desired aspect. Because of it’s appeal to many different people,
these jobs are highly competitive. Creativity and technical proficiency
are important. Careers include scientific and news photography, portraiture,
fine art photography, digital and darkroom technician, commercial and
industrial photographers, advertising and copy photographers.
Graphic Artist:
http://www.siggraph.org
– computer graphics organization for graphic artists
http://www.computerarts.co.uk
– digital arts magazine with interesting work
Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes
computers both to generate synthetic visual images and to integrate or
alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. Using
analog-to-digital conversion techniques, a variety of devices can be used
to store pictorial data in a digital computer. By reversing the process
through digital-to-analog conversion techniques, the stored data can be
displayed in graphical form on a mechanical plotting board, or plotter,
or on a televisionlike graphic display terminal. Computer graphics capabilities
range from the simple display of digital tabulations as line graphs and
pie charts to complex animation and elaborate special effects for television
and motion pictures. Computer graphics are used in architecture, art,
computer-aided design, electronic games, flight simulators for pilot training,
and molecular modeling.
Graphic Design:
http://www.aiga.org
– design organization
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/students
–aiga student ideas
“Graphic design is the most ubiquitous of all the arts. It responds
to needs at once personal and public, embraces concerns both economic
and ergonomic, and is informed by many disciplines, including art and
architecture, philosophy and ethics, literature and language, science
and politics and performance.”—Jessica Helfand, introduction
to the video, “What is graphic design?”
Designers need to master a wide variety of skills and concepts, including
print media, interactive experiences, design exhibits and more.
Music:
http://www.menc.org
– music educator and job links
http://www.berklee.edu/careers/resources.html
– Berklee School of Music career pages
Music as a creative endeavor that includes many skills. Music careers
include solo performance, conducting, accompanist, chamber music, orchestras,
concert, rock, jazz and dance bands, “back-up” musician, cruise
line performer, choirs, opera, theatre, theatre directing, dance &
choreography, community music, broadcast video and movie creation and
editing, composer, sound recording technician, podcaster, and more.
Interface Design:
http://www.digitalthread.com
–web design and more
http://www.gdconf.com –game developers' conference
http://www.seriousgamessummit.com
–game developers' for serious
Interface design encompasses four distinct, but related constructs--usability,
visualization, functionality, and accessibility. Interface design is most
often associated with the development of Web pages, computer software,
and multimedia, but is relevant to the creation of any instructional media
or technical equipment. Interface designer skills include 2D and 3D graphics
creation, animation, interaction, user feedback, programming code. Examples
of interfaces include web and game design.
Resources:
Americans for the Arts http://www.americansforthearts.org/default.asp
Minnesota resources for the arts – http://www.mnartists.org
Job search links http://www.americansforthearts.org/e_services/jbank/jbank.asp
Arts Awareness campaign http://www.artsusa.org
Career information: http://www.artcareer.net
Information and art gallery: http://digitalart.org
Art gallery: http://www.internationaldigitalart.com
Links to artist resources on the web http://www.kcc.ac.uk/ArtPages/Ramos/ARTNET.HTML
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