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The Art and Design Merger: Today's Technology ensures Diverse Training

Many people chase headlong after an art career before understanding the breadth of the field, the highly competitive nature of the profession, and the training it takes to be successful. The broad range of work can be daunting if you haven’t focused on developing your skills.

If you have talent and a rock-solid art education, there are lifetime opportunities in illustration, graphics, multi-media, design, and fine arts. While you may not want to get cornered in a niche, it does help to choose a general field and to survey the graduate, undergraduate, and certification art schools that will launch you toward a fulfilling arts career.

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The Marketplace is Roomy and Inclusive

With the increasing reliance on computers and dedicated arts software, it’s no longer easy to simply recommend drawing and painting classes to an arts career aspirant. Arts education programs today prepare students for work in digital arts, as Internet website artists and designers, animators, or as game and film-set designers.

Illustrators and line artists take jobs as art directors with book publishers, or with newspapers and magazines. Others work as printmakers, sculptors, and graphic artists in successful studio careers.

Get prepared for an exciting design career. At The Art Institutes, you'll receive hands-on training from industry professionals, plus you'll build your portfolio.

In the research field, artists work as medical and scientific illustrators. In the fashion world, there are arts careers for clothing merchandising and design specialists. With an advanced art education you can teach or, with a business background, you can manage galleries and museums.

Balance is Key

Successful artists often strike a balance between corporate art work - which pays the bills - and studio careers, which fuel the imagination. If you’re just beginning, ask yourself about the kind of workplace that will best satisfy your creative and financial needs.


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