Job Shadow Outline

Characteristics of Fine Artists

Characteristics of Job

Freedom of Being Fine Artist

Personal Impact of Job Shadow

Friendly

• Display things at auctions, craft fairs, galleries, museums, and online marketplaces

at lunch, everyone was very curious and friendly- had client coming later that day so need to be friendly with them

Creative

Possibly Lonely

Optimistic Views

Original

Simple

Patient

• Norton hospital sculpture
o Working since April
o 7 foot, 5000 lbs-14

Anish Kapoor: Create intinmate elemental sculptures and massive installations
Cloud Gate in Millinial Park
Won Turner prize in 1991-13

• Sculpting every night and does personal projects bc commission-14

159- must be passionate, hopeful, excited for the profession which is not a problem for me
Nagging from others about lack of ability to make living as artist

“Every day you have the opportunity to make the art world a more generous place.”- pg 340—I love the overall optimistic view of the artists. This really enhances my feelings about perusing the career

311- negative is you are sometimes alone with only your thoughts and your art
323- fight isolation in collective which is organized around mutual goals or skills, also work in support groups or with buddy
325- rejection is inevitable for art career( difficult for me to face this)
327- rejection is not personal therefor this helps you fight against these struggles
330- connecting with community and socially on media with reviews and reports helps spread word of yourself if you are new

• Build cabinet- different people bring different solutions or approaches to a problem-14

• Style of sculptor is developed through career- style like handwriting(17)-1

Alberto Giacometti made sculpures as small as needles-13

“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.”- Constantin Brancusi pg 281-13

had to make his own name for himself

• Elements of design visually communicated through sculpture taking physical form


versatile

• Variety is different materials, shapes, textures, etc(16)-1


• Arrangement of elements that help sculptor- principles of order


• Limestone has wide range of colors, best carving quality bc predicably due to little grain(99)

• Easier if having small stone and at a short table(104)

this may not happen so adapt

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social aspect

Significance of Locality

Day to Day variety

art that's close

optimistic views

schools that are close

Requirements for Field

Personal

Educational

Physical

social

many options

don't need expensive education

Salary

choppy income

Make your own schedule

Always occupied

This restricts freedom

Originality

Your product is how you make and design it

Hands on

Adaptibility

Problem solving

hands on

Organization

Adjustable Free Time

Overall Satisfaction

Don't need formal education

Not much job availability

o Use sand, plaster and ceramic shell molds

Safe

lots of potential for danger

• Safety is paramount, while working with sculpures that require unfamiliar tools, a multitude of materials, and chemicals-1

• Today sculptors have more freedom for choosing purpose of sculptors-1

• Stonehenge early sculptor for likely sun god made without mortar- 13ft tall/ 97 foot diameter-1

• Elements of design visually communicated through sculpture taking physical form-1

can choose their own message and how to get it across


• Good sculpture requires space- area around it this is it that doesn’t have mass and evokes sense of depth
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sometimes don't get the space so adapt

For example, may not want to use color bc • Color not as important than for paintings(14)-1

Stone is oldest form of sculptor with wide variety of rock, multitude of colors/textures-1

precautious

• Carver should always use respirator and goggles/facemask, gloves and ear protectors(103)-1

when I was in shop, had to wear glasses to protect eyes

importance of art close to home

• Often find stones locally-1

artistic

• Draw shape on stone first- 107-1

ability to do things like free draw

use of different tools

• Use more and more precise tools and grit for sanding
• Sealed with tile sealer and waxed with tree wax- 109-1

use of different techniques

• Cut/weld/ hammer/ stretch metals to create sculptures-210-1

• Sanblasting/spraypaint/cast metal used for different things-1

• Sculpture has many different parts/techniques on one piece so hard to classify artist by medium or technique- 297-1

329
• Few sculptors are full time
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330
• Sculptor qualities: perseverance, actually working full time hours, a lot of effort, talent and training
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spacial

• Need good facilities for space to work, storage, safety features, private space, ventilation, display area- 330-1

wide range since often part time

339
• Incomes vary: in survey towards sculptors, 30%=$5000 or less, 15%= $10000 or less, 17%= $20000 or less, 3%= 30000 or less, 8%= 40000, 6%= 50000, 3%=75000, 14%=100000
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• Of sculptors earning 100000$, 30% fabricated steel, 20% bronze, 20% wood, 10% stone, 20% several media, 90% said word of mouth was best form of advertising-339-1

• Of sculptors earning 100000$, 30% fabricated steel, 20% bronze, 20% wood, 10% stone, 20% several media, 90% said word of mouth was best form of advertising-339-1

• Many sculpors work entirely different vocations while completing a piece of art-342-1


• Blue collar workers like fabricators require physical labor, some prefer this because echenace to use onesw hands for the artwork

“Earning a living soley from sculpture work is the goal of most sculptors. However, ot is not a goal easily fulfilled”- pg 330-1

“Many sculptors are literally in love with working in their studio, touching materials; the actual process and progress of working with sculpture is their whole existance.”-p 344

• use a variety of materials and techniques to create art for sale and exhibition

• Fine Artists create original works of art for their aesthetic value, rather than for a functional one.-2

• Develop creative ideas or new methods for making art-2

• Use visual techniques, such as composition, color, space, and perspective, to produce desired artistic effects-2

need to be social to sell

• Some art is commissioned, most sold through private galleries-2

• Some artists work in museums or art galleries as art directors or as archivists, curators, or museum workers-2

• Craft and fine artists specialize in one or more types of art
• -furniture makers- cut/join/finish wood for handcrafted furniture
• -public artists-create large sculptures/instalations for public spaces like parks, train stations etc
• -sculptors design three-dimensional works of art, either by molding and joining materials such as clay, glass, plastic, and metal or by cutting and carving forms from a block of plaster, wood, or stone. Some sculptors combine various materials to create mixed-media installations. incorporate light, sound, and motion into their works.
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• Work in studios in office buildings, warehouses lofts, at home-2

I like working in open space so this is important

• 50,300 jobs in 2014-2

• Most earn bachelors or masters to improve skills/job options
• difficult to gain adequate artistic skills without some formal education
• no clear cut path for education-2

• artists can learn basic skills in highscool class-2

• Some artists learn on the job from more experienced artists-free-2

• Must be artistic and be imaginative and dewterous to work with tools- both limit work ability with age-2

• Median is $ 50,790 in May 2016- (50,790)(30 yrs of estimated career)= $1,523,700 estimated lifetime income
• lowest 10 percent earned less than $20,820, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $99,670. (20,820)(30 yrs estimated career)= $624,600
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• Median hourly wage is $24.42 an hour-2

• 80-140 jobs in Kentucky in 2016-2

• Employment grow 2% from 2014-2024
• Growth depends on economy because buy art when money to spend


• Projected 51,200 in 2024, grow 900 from 2024
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woodworking

• -1,400 jobs in 2024-3

• 237,200 jobs as woodworker in 2014-3

• Highscool deploma or equivelant for woodworker-3

use things such as investigative meeting to meet people in the social world and grow your connections Forced to interact with people and be social so you can sell products-4

• Of sculptors earning 100000$, 30% fabricated steel, 20% bronze, 20% wood, 10% stone, 20% several media, 90% said word of mouth was best form of advertising-339-1

3-when starting out, seems very difficult to grow

  • Self-generated and lots of freedom(good and bad)
    Challenge to continue pushing yourself-4

planning very important because you play all the roles of the business, always setting goals and dates as well as setting the plans for you daily life- I am a very organized person so the organization of this appeals to me-4

open studio events allow you to show work to familiar people, art is very visual instead of conceptual which appeals to me through these shows-4

I personally experienced this and was explained the importance on solidifying a deal

• Metal fabrication is popular media-1

often difficult to come up with new ideas

no one chooses to be an artist for the money –for me, its good to not be soley focused on money bec money is the root of all evil-4

often require support from residencies, workspace programs, indivual gifts, and goods and services for money
Reason money is given away is bc people asked for it-4

“Balance your need and desire to make art with other things that you are doing in your life, so you’re getting pleasure from all the things.”- Jennifer McGregor- shows me the flexibility and overall happiness that is attributed to the job pg 337-4

“Every artist’s career is different. The reasons why artists do things are very different.”- Fred Wilson page 330-4

“When I think about the people that I see that are happy with what theyre doing, they are people that have good networks with other people.” Jennifer McGregor, director of arts and senior curator pg 315- shows the social aspect of sculptor-4

“Your creativity needs to be nurtured and protected. Its you most valuable asset.”- Battenfield pg 283-4

in germany, unemployment is 1.5 times higher than amoung total population
number of students exceeds the available jobs
explanation is that artistic work has high work satisfaction
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it is said that artists gain “psychic income”-5

not syncrinized lifestyle, low level routine-5

In a raw comparison of average job satisfaction scores, artists rank high (10th of 81 occupational groups/-subjective-5

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Top 10 Schools of Art and Design- out-of-state annual tuition comparison

1 Rhode Island School of Design $39,777 #2 Yale University 40,500 #3 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37,560 #4 VCUarts 22,947 (tie) Maryland Institute College of Art 37,470 (tie) Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate only-6

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Yale University
New Haven, CT

2Tie


University of California—Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

2Tie


Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA


4Tie


Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI

4Tie


School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL

6Tie


Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

6Tie


Columbia University
New York, NY
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don't need to go far

  1. University of Louisville


Louisville, 9 art programs



  1. University of Kentucky


Lexington, 15 art programs



  1. Northern Kentucky University


Highland Heights, 5 art programs-8

In a single day last week, 30-year-old Rachel Whiteread won two prizes, one for being the best British artist and one for being the worst. The awards followed a month in which a sculpture by Miss Whiteread has generated a national debate about contemporary art.

important because a good example of some of the difficulties I would have to face in the art world is the difficulty of being originaly without being controversial. People will always receive criticism but it is what you get out of it that makes it important

“You know your sculptures are convincing when someone mistakes one of them for a real person. That’s exactly what happened when someone called the cops on Canadian Catholic sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz’s sculpture Jesus the Homeless. Schmalz, 46, of Ontario, is trying to bring little-talked-about subjects out into the open through his art. Especially dear to his heart are the unborn; through his monuments and miniatures of the unborn, he hopes to make visible the hidden pain of those who are victims of abortion.”- pg 14


Sculptor Douwe Blumberg of Independence, Ky built a Pegasus for the Pegasus Parade in Louisville Kentucky

  • been crafting since February
  • made from aircraft steel tubing covered in foam and polyester resin
    -shows the sculptures being made close to home and the citywide tradition of horse sculptures
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  1. University of Louisville


Louisville, 9 art programs



  1. University of Kentucky


Lexington, 15 art programs



  1. Northern Kentucky University


Highland Heights, 5 art programs-8

Jerry Voyles of Elizabeth, Ind., makes large sculptures, a practice he developed after working for years assisting sculptor David Kocka in his studio and installing his pieces around the country-12

example of someone being an apprentice as training


“Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look as my sculptures until you see them.”- Brancusi pg 282-13

• Building prototype museum-14

• Must clean at end of the day- good for my organization preferations-14

5- planning very important because you play all the roles of the business, always setting goals and dates as well as setting the plans for you daily life- I am a very organized person so the organization of this appeals to me
82- open studio events allow you to show work to familiar people, art is very visual instead of conceptual which -4

• Rely on other companies to print for other materials for final product-14

• Details are incredibly important-14

when building kitchen cabinet, must think collaboratively to figure out the best locking mechanism-14

Some things are very complex like kitchen cabinet

• Constant movement from multiple projects
• Rotation from place to place- always busy-14

• Lots of collaborative work and different fields-14

• Bellarmine90’ graduate-14

in PYRO Gallery-14

• Every project they’ve ever done is new-14

• 47,000 kitchen cabinet-14

shows big income all at once unlike normal

• Norton hospital sculpture
o Working since April
o 7 foot, 5000 lbs
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personally commisioned

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“Everything we make here is brand new. Its never been made before.”-14

work up close with piece you are making-isn't on computer or metaphysical

• Bellarmine90’ graduate-14

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