Ernest Said:

Work experience for Art School?

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Work experience can only help your application. It truly doesn't matter what sorts of work experience you get. It'd be great if it were somehow related to what you want to major in, but it doesn't have to be. It's the work experience itself that helps.

Otherwise, take all the art classes that your school offers, and if you don't already do this, start drawing from life. That's drawing by hand; and of things you see in real life, not stuff from photos or from your imagination. You need to look at something - still life, landscape, people, animals - and draw it. All art schools want to see examples of drawing from life in your portfolio, and if you start now, by the time you need to submit your portfolio, you could be decent at it; and you'll already have the pieces ready for your portfolio!

If you don't know how to draw, you can learn. Get a copy of the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." It costs maybe $2 from Amazon, and it's really good.
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Brai…

Nora Said:

Art work experience?????????

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Now that answer wasn't very helpful lol mine probably won't either but here it goes

Maybe you could ask your local school if they would let you be a classroom assistant in an art class. I know somebody who did that and they helped the children with their art and even learned a bit more about art herself...

Hope I helped

Morris Said:

looking for work experience in art and design looking to be a tatooist please help me find a work placement?

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i'm in year 10 too. i wanted to find a place in art n design but my mate goes were eva u ask they say they dont do it no more

Shannon Said:

Masters degree in Fine Art / No Work Experience - what kind of jobs are available?

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Interesting. Syracuse is a good school for an MFA, and those who know art will know that - so that's in her favor. Syracuse is also considered a solid school, overall, so that's also in her favor.

What she does next really depends on her interests and desires. But if, for example, she wanted to become a K-12 art teacher, the easiest way for her to make that transition would be to enter an MAT in art program, even though she already has an MFA. Get formal (and recent) teacher training, do student teaching as part of her program, pass the certification exams, and then try to find a job as an art teacher in the public or private schools. A masters degree in teaching would take her one year, and I have no doubt that she'd be admitted to a school somewhere.

If she'd rather teach art at the community college level, her degrees, as she has them now, are fine. What she would want to do in that situation is as you suggest - begin to build teaching related experience now, so she can put it on her resume when she applies for such jobs. She therefore may want to go to her local senior centers or Boys & Girls Clubs or YMCAs and volunteer to teach some classes. Once she has taught a few classes, she can begin approaching community colleges and the continuing ed departments of universities.

If she wants to teach at the university level, she needs to start exhibiting. She needs to build her credentials in terms of producing and showing her own artwork in order for her to be able to get a job at a uni.

And she can certainly do something that's either unrelated to her degree, or only peripherally related. She could try to get a job as a receptionist in an art gallery, or for a museum. In terms of the museum, she could volunteer as a docent first, and try to work her way to a paid job in that way. If she has computer and typing and admin skills, she could try to get a job - ideally for an arts related organization - as an admin. To get into that, she could first temp as an admin via a temp agency, for a while, to refresh her skills and to build a current resume. She could even try to get a job for a funky, somewhat artsy retail store, and eventually try to work her way up to some sort of management role, if she's interested.

She actually has a lot of options. Depending on which ones appeal the most to her, she'll need to do specific things to gain skills/refresh her resume, so she can get those jobs; but it's all possible.

Naturally, at least at first, when she's making her first resume, she should use more of a skills-based format, rather than a chronological resume. After all, she may not have held a formal, paid job for quite some time; but she has gained significant, career-related skills via her work as a housewife, and more of a skills based resume will help her to highlight those skills, highlight her strengths rather than her one weakness (which is lack of recent paid employment.) Since it's been a while since she's had to do a resume, you will need to help her out with this. Get a book. Go online. Find a resume format that highlights what's good, and doesn't emphasize what's bad, and use that.

As part of her job search, she should network the heck out of her contacts. Make sure that everyone she knows understands that she's looking for a job, and of which types. Church. Fellow moms. Fellow mom's kids. The guy at the supermarket. Her old real estate contacts. The places where she volunteers. Everyone.

Aaron Said:

I'm thinking of doing work experience in a art gallery during the summer holidays?

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It is tough to find paid work at this stage in a gallery but all small galleries could use an extra pair of unpaid hands with new exhibitions. If you send a covering letter along with your CV highlighting your ambitions and what your degree course involves and if you say how motivated, energetic and passionate you are then you will hopefully have some success.

Volunteer yourself to all the galleries, big or small that you can find. I speak from experience! Best of luck, chick!

Lee Said:

Film art departments work experience?

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i might have misunderstood your question but try bbc or c4; itv. or try hollyoaks, you can work as a runner for work experience