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Build an exciting career in Visual Art with globally marketable courses from top-ranked universities.
Visual arts are a potpourri of forms of art; photography, painting, drawings sculpture, pottery and crafts. Studying visual arts is opening upto fully experiencing art and trendsetting in the modern scope. Visual arts students will examine how art has changed over the centuries and also how it has remained the same, what techniques have remained supreme and why. This complex tapestry created by personal expressions and artistic evolutions are what visual arts learners will explore and build on in this course.
- Students develop their personalities as they discover and explore their creativity
- Visual skills enhance refined workforces as it stimulates expression and communication skills.
- Visual arts are instrumental in development of human emotions and confidence.
- Visual arts have a great effect on the meaning of art over time, historically and currently.
- Visual arts learning helps students develop critical thinking skills which in turn leads to students who deeply understand educational content.
Top Marketable Careers for Visual Art Course Graduates
Museum/Gallery Curator
A curator in a museum or gallery keeps inventory and manages collections of artifacts and works of art. These can be historical or current works, they will also oversee acquisition of new works, take care of them and be responsible for educating the museum visitors about them.
Museum and gallery curators work in arts established privately owned as well as the ones owned by government arts agencies
Greeting Card Illustrator
Greeting cards designers and illustrators have great artistic ability in terms of creativity and expression. They are in touch with the seasons of life both at a personal level and at the level of the society.
The illustrators will crate and design cards with images and messages which are relevant to a celebration or topic. High skills in illustration and design are required in this career. They may use computer programs or free hand to draw their designs. They can work as freelancers, consultants or in publishing houses.
Film Restoration Artist
A film restoration artist preserves by restoring and repairing damaged, ageing film back to original form or better. They will study artwork, identify materials composing the artwork, match them with exact materials in regard to colour, genre, shape and structure. The repaired product should look just like the original art piece.
They will in instances treat artwork too and keep record of the process. Film restoration artists work in museums, galleries, historical sites, educational institutions and even for governments. This field is highly specialized, a graduate that specialized in textiles may work in a museum restoring textile artwork while one who specialized in painting may work in a paintings gallery.
Industrial Designers
Industrial designers will apply art, business and engineering to create products for everyday use. They will balance out features like aesthetics, function, production cost and usability when working on a design.
They will collaborate with the client to determine design requirements, research on the need for the product- who will use it and for what, sketch virtual ideas of the design, apply computer software to further develop virtual models of the design.
They will then create physical prototypes of these designs, come up with production costs from the materials projected for use, liaise with other specialized professionals to assess viability of product, evaluate product safety, function and outlook to determine practicality, present prototype and design for approval.
Requisite skills for industrial designers include; analytical skills, artistic ability, computer skills, creativity, mechanical skills, problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal skills. Industrial designers will work as consultants, for governments, for manufacturers etc
Painter
Painters are important in any ecosystem, they will be required to read and interpret blueprints and instructions to advise on the necessary amount of work. They will then prepare the site and ready it for work, this may include covering fixtures and scaffolding the building.
They will prepare the surfaces to be painted by removing old paint, using sandpaper to even them out etc. An eye for detail, being professional, understanding colour schemes and client needs are some of the skills that a good painter will exhibit.
Painters will work as freelancers or consultants, in real estate, in government and also in private companies.
Post Production Coordinator
Post production work is what happens after filming a project is done. The Post production coordinator will offer technical support for digital content delivery, transcoding, archiving etc. They will process raw footage in relevant digital programs, resize and upload images in high resolution to servers for use by relevant teams, watermark images for design placement, organize and back up high resolution image databases.
They will retouch images for final publication, liaise with other teams to ensure all image needs are met promptly, run edits as required by the production manager, they will assess workflow in operation for scalability and efficiency.
Requisite skills for post-production coordinators are digital and social media skills, Photoshop skills, Illustrator skills, media encoder and after skills, editing skills, communication skills, marketing skills. Post production coordinators can work as freelancers and can work in film production, television, social media content production, documentary production houses etc.
Potter
A potter designs and creates items from clay using a potter’s wheel or their hands. They will research on the items on demand, they will sketch them and create prototypes, they will ensure the products are functional as well as aesthetically appealing.
Potters are required to be creative and artistic, have analytical skills, problem solving skills, in tune with trends and be a practical thinker. They can work as self-employed consultants and can also be employed.
Talent Agents
Talent agents are responsible for linking their clients with jobs. They are the link between employers and employees. Talent agents will have a specialty, be very well networked, have an eye for talent, negotiate contract terms, provide insights and recommendations to clients.
They will have administrative skills, great marketing skills and be duly licensed.
Special Effects Artist- Special effects artists create optical, mechanical and computer generated effects for TV, movies, films and computer games. To do that, several skills are important for the artist, these include; computer design skills- animation, graphics and graphic design. Creativity, flexible working hours and marketing skills.
Special effects artists can be self-employed or employed.
Prop Maker
Prop makers is an artist and technician who creates required custom props for a production. They will also modify and customize available or rented props to make them applicable for a production. Most prop makers work in theatrical productions working closely with the art director and the production designer.
Necessary skills for a prop maker are; art skills, design skills, carpentry craft skills, painting skills, tool work skills. Prop makers can be self-employed or employed.
Set Designers
Working closely with directors and set builders, set designers will go through a production script, conceptualize the set, design it, acquire materials and uphold the overall look of the production set.
They will liaise with other production crew to ensure set details are in line. They will supervise set construction in partnership with the prop makers and set builders. They will generate cost estimates and negotiate good deals with vendors.
Set designers will benefit from skills like; 3D design skills, theatre skills, TV skills, film skills, architecture, interior design skills, creativity, eye for detail, time management skills. Set designers can work in both formal and informal sectors.
Photo Journalist
Photojournalists capture ethical, authentic images, they take still pictures as well as live video footages, they process or print film and generate digital well edited images. They write subsequent copy and captions to accompany their images for use in press reports.
A photo journalist will pay attention to detail, have inter personal skills, organizational skills as well as up to date computer skills. They can work as freelancers, work for media houses and consult across sectors.
