Careers in the Visual Arts
Art you considering studying further in the visual arts and design fields? Are you concerned about what job and career prospects are out there for you? Do you know how to select a course and tertiary facility within the visual arts? Do you know if you would be a good teacher, artist, designer or curator?
Johannesburg based Artspace Gallery and consultancy Art Source South Africa will be hosting a seminar aimed at assisting Grade 10 - 12 learners learn more about careers in the visual art fields, and giving them tools to navigate the important decisions of what their next steps should be at the Artspace Warehouse, 3 Hetty Avenue, Fairland on Saturday July 24 and Sunday July 25 from 9am to 5pm.
Cost: R2000 (which covers a professional MBTI assessment of each learner, course materials, lunches, and refreshements on both days)
Book: Ronel de Jager 011-880-8802 or artspace@wol.co.za
Programme for the seminar will be supplied upon confirmation of your booking.
Payment in full will be due by July 16, 2010 to secure your booking.
Seats are limited so booking is essential.
The seminar will assist learners interested in the visual arts as a course of further study to look at their various career options and how to approach them. Different aspects of the industry will be presented to the learners and information on tertiary facilities, their entry requirements and position in the industry will be considered.
An individual MBTI assessment will be done for each participant by a registered psychologist. The MBTI is a well known, valid and culturally fair personality assessment tool that provides rich and valuable data that enables people to understand themselves and others.
The MBTI has been used extensively in individual and team development. It also helps people to select careers that they are likely to enjoy and be good at based on their interests and personality profile. On the course, each delegate will receive an individual career report according to their personality type as well as group based feedback around the various personality types and combinations.
The seminar aims to assist learners to take decisions about themselves & their desired career path. How to set and achieve goals and what strategies need to be applied to successfully achieve these within the visual arts field. It will also talk to the business side of the art world and consider how to engage with this successfully.
Topics covered include:
• Being a professional artist - what does this mean?
• How does the industry work?
• What alternative career options are open to you within the visual arts
• An exploration of what it means to be an artist, a teacher, writer, curator, arts administrator or graphic designer
• Defining a strategy relevant to your individual career plan
