There are those for whom job hunting is easy because the jobs are clearly listed and there are those for whom job hunting is not easy because
- their current job title does not match how that job as advertised now or
- they are in the liberal arts.
For example, an accountant can find job listings on the all inclusive websites such as Monster and Yahoo! Jobs or on the more specialized, niche-specific websites such as Jobsinthemoney.com. However, where do art teachers look for jobs? Art teachers have to be incredibly creative in how they search and what they ask of the search engines. Why? Because search engines can be very dumb. Simple answer but very true. Therefore, you have to think pedantically and straight forward like a search engine if you want to gather job postings. The steps are:
- Open your favorite search engine window (e.g., Google).
- Type “art teacher job” in the search window.
- Click “Enter.”
- Look at the list of what comes up.
On Dec. 31, this job posting came up:
There were 21 jobs for art teachers on Simply Hired and 10 of those in California.If you have no interest in moving to parts of California, Corpus Christi, TX or Alexandria, VA, then keep searching.
A teacher can not only work for a school district, but also as
- an adjunct art or graphic art teacher at a local community college or college
- art tutor for Tutor Nation, Z Club, Kaplan, and others
- private art teacher
- substitute teacher with multiple local districts and/or private schools
- private school art teacher
- home schooling art resource teacher
- online teacher
- teach art at a local community or senior center
- teach art at a local senior living facility (e.g., Atria)
- newspaper cartoonist
- advertising art/commercial poster design
- textbook and book illustration (McGraw-Hill)
- book or journal (magazine) editor
- layout editor
- art director for a publisher
- Arts Programmer (TV/radio)
- Professor
- art historian (Bridgewater College, CT)
- museum curator or director (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
- museum art class teacher (San Diego Children’s Museum)
- director of a day or overnight camp (Cedars Camps, MO)
- art teacher at a day or overnight camp (Idyllwild Arts Academy, CA)
- art critic for TV, online, or print media (Chrisitan Science Monitor)
- museum or university volunteer coordinator
- art writer
- art reporter
- Corporate History Preservation Officer
- Preservation Agency Officer
- Education Coordinator
- Research Assistant
- Cultural Events Planner
- Art therapist
- Art librarian
- Art handler
- Appraiser
- Arts consultant
- Furniture designer (IKEA)
Now, is it possible that none of these interest our mythical art teacher? Certainly. Is that a bad thing? No. Keep hunting.
On the same site, Incredible Art Jobs, there are career niche ideas for artists in:
- advertising art
- animation and cartooning
- graphic design
- illustration
- special effects
- video game design
- web design
At the end of each article is career guidance on how to enter that field.
If you search simply under “art,” you get a longer list but there is overlap with other areas which are not art, so read carefully
Now, what if our art teacher would rather work in a museum?
Educator Simi Valley, CA
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has opened an experiential, interactive Discovery Center on American Presidential decision making. We are looking to hire Educators to engage students in our scripted Discovery Center scenarios. The ideal candidates are energetic, versatile professionals who can oversee groups of young people as well as interact with the educational community. The Discovery Center is a place where students can experience the responsibilities and challenges faced by the Executive Branch and those individuals closely associated with the administration. This comprehensive, high-tech learning environment includes a replica Oval Office and White House Press Room, a Boeing flight simulator, and a military situation room aboard a U.S. Navy ship. This individual will be an employee of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that sustains the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the Air Force One Pavilion, the Center for Public Affairs and the Presidential Learning Center. Located in Simi Valley, California the Library houses over 55 million pages of Gubernatorial, Presidential and personal papers, an extraordinary collection of photographs and film, and over 100,000 gifts and artifacts chronicling the lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Duties:
· Run scripted Discovery Center scenarios for 5th-8th grade students
· Supervise school groups of 5th – 8th grade students
· Administrative tasks, including compiling and sending materials to teachers Qualifications:
· Bachelors degree required
· California credential is required; no emergency credentials accepted
· Experience supervising 5th- 8th grade students in a classroom, museum or other
public setting.
· Proven ability to think strategically
· Proven ability to adapt to change
· Must have experience with and a desire to work with a diverse population of
students, teachers, parent chaperones, and volunteer docents.
· Experience leading group discussions
Position Type: part time – fifteen hours or more/week
Salary: $15/hour
How to Apply:
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted December 26th
Can $15 per hour be negotiated up? In most cases, yes. Why? Because the employer is trying to get away with paying as little as possible. Therefore, if you are interested, craft the best cover letter and résumé you can, aim it with a “You” attitude (“here’s what I can do for you,” “Here’s how I can make your life easier…”) and follow-up. Less than 10% of all job seekers call the entity to whom they sent their hand-crafted résumé and then for the life them, can’t figure out why they didn’t get a call back. Call or e-mail. Reiterate your interest and why you are a terrific fit for this job. Sell yourself as the best person on the planet to answer their need for a great employee.
The world is wide and varied. My advice is to pick a job title you think you would like and search for it in your area—for instance, “art critic job New York City” and see what comes up. You may have to widen your search to get enough job postings to investigate. If you don’t like what art critics do after reading the job posting, that is fine. Search for another job title in your favorite city. By persistent digging, you will find what you seek!
Would you like a really huge list of websites listing jobs for artists? Click on http://art.nmu.edu/department/AD_Career-Jobs.html for Northern Michigan University Professor Dennis Staffne’s list of dozens of websites:
NEW MEDIA / GRAPHICS
Advertising Age Job Bank
Adweek – Click on the Jobs link on the top of the page.
AIGA-Boston – American Institute of Graphic Arts
AIGA-Chicago – American Institute of Graphic Arts – Jobs and Job Listings.
AIGA-Cincinnati
AIGA-Cleveland
AIGA-Minnesota – American Institute of Graphic Arts – Minnesota Chapter – Graphic design and new media jobs in Minnesota.
AIGA – National web site.
AIGA-New York
AIGA-Portland
AIGA-Seattle
AIGA-St. Louis
Aquent – Aquent is the world’s largest talent agency for Creative, Web, and Tech professionals, with offices in more than 50 cities and 10 countries. Aquent is the Official Talent Agency of the AIGA, and the Official Career Partner of Lynda.com. Aquent maintains a large listing of job openings on their Job Search page, and accepts online Resume Submissions.
ArtCareer.net – Art Career Network sees beyond “art jobs” and offers a complete resource for your living, growing visual arts career. Access to job opportunity listings, our résumé database, career guidance, perspectives from visual arts professionals, and links to other sources of information is provided here.
Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington (Washington DC) – Job listings in and around the Washington DC area.
Art Job – Whether you’re looking for a new job, or just want to understand what’s happening in the arts field, ArtJob is the place to find comprehensive, up-to-date national and international listings of art employment and other opportunities in the arts. As a print publication, ArtJob is a source for professional opportunities and key information in all areas of the arts, including: Presenting, Producing, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Academic, Internships & Fellowships, Conferences, and Commissions, plus special feature columns.
Artists/Designers – Job listings for artists, desktop publishers, photographers, and web designers, all listed as telecommuting job opportunities.
Artist Jobs
Artist Resource – An artist resource for the San Francisco Bay area. Included in the various links is one for job listings.
Art Source – Job listings for digital media.
Artist Search Agency
CORE77 – Industrial Design Supersite
COROFLOT – Coroflot is dedicated to making the employment connection between designers and design businesses.
Career Path – The Career Path site has employment listings from newspapers across the country. Over one hundred thousand jobs can be searched from all forms of employment including graphics and new media. This site is worth your inspection.
Communication Arts – CA maintains an excellent job resource site. Search options have been expanded to include search by geographic region.
Creative Central – Job listings for new media, graphics, photography, and other areas. At last review job listings were for Seattle and Washington state.
Creative Freelancers – Help Wanted
Designsphere Online – Job Hunt – Jobs offered
DICE – Data Processing Indepenent Consultant’s Exchange – A computer consulting job search and employment database.
Digital Chicago – The Digital Chicago web site is no longer – information only on how to subscribe and contact the publication.
Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas – EGAD is a registered Apple Macintosh User Group for professional graphic artists working in the advertising, marketing communications, and graphic arts industries. This site has resources for job and freelance opportunities in graphic design.
FindCreative.com – FindCreative.com is a job search and job posting web site designed exclusively for the creative community. Additional information and forum relating to the creative job search is available.
Global Art Jobs
Graphic Arts Employment Specialists – A professional, nationwide recruiting and placement operation providing the printing, publishing, and graphic arts industries with management, editorial and production personnel.
How Magazine – Job Postings located on this well known graphics publication.
Industrial Design Network – Is now COROFLOT – Coroflot is dedicated to making the employment connection between designers and design businesses.
Internet Jobs – Related to internet positions.
Jobs – Positions available in graphics, new media, www, and related areas.
Jobs – As listed on the High Five web site (HighFive appears to be gone).
Jobs Jobs Jobs – Employment listings for California (especially the Bay area). Go to the “Browse Categories” page and search “artist” and “multimedia.”
MacTalent – Various positions, including art related, that require Macintosh experience.
MacTech Jobs
MacTemps – Now is a company known as Aquent.
Media Inc – This site appears to have been retired.
NationJob Network – A general job list / service.
Net-Temps – Job search and résumé postings for Net related employment.
NetWork Job List – Employment listings in new media and design for California, Boston, and New York.
NYFA – The New York Foundation for the Arts – Click on the For Artists link then click on NYFA Classifeds and then click on Jobs in the Arts.
PINCWORKS – Part of the PINC (Printing Industries of Northern California) web site. By using their referral program, simply check which jobs you are interested in (mostly in the Bay area and Northern California) PINC will then fax your résumé. Read over the informational page on how to join the PINC Referral Service.
Portfolio – Now is a company known as Aquent.
Print Jobs – Presented by Newhouse Associates, recruiting specialists for the printing and graphic arts industries.
PrintLink – PrintLink is a Graphic Arts Professional Staffing Service for senior/middle print management and all digital prepress positions. With offices in the US and Canada, PrintLink serves a regional, national, and international market.
VisualNation – Job site links
PHOTO / FILM / VIDEO
Studios rarely advertise entry level jobs for commercial photography. Most photography studios expect the traditional approach to the job search. That is, showing your portfolio or “book” in person, assuming you live in that metro area. Be sure to look at “Professional Organizations” and “Informational Resources” to assist in your search. Film and video production listings are also provided.
ASMP – American Society of Media Photographers (national link) – This is a very important professional organization for photographers. There are chapter groups of ASMP in many major cities.
Broadcast Employment Services – Includes listings for multimedia and post production.
B-Roll – Job listings for news video/photography.
Film and Television Production Jobs – From Mandy’s Film and TV Production Directory – job listing for the US and the entire world.
Photographers’ News Network – Various aspects of the professional photographic business are presented (at one time a job listing page was available, but seems to be gone now).
Photo District News Classified Ads – Ads (including help wanted) relating to the commercial photography field.
Professional Photographers of America (PPA) – Today, PPA is the world’s largest not-for- profit association for professional photographers, with more than 14,000 members in 64 countries. It is an association that seeks to increase its members business savvy as well as broaden their creative scope. It aims to advance their careers by providing them with all the tools for success.
TEACHING / INSTITUTIONAL / MUSEUM / ARCHITECTURE
Teaching positions from K-12 to higher education are represented. In addition, museum and related employment listings are now available online.
Academic Employment Network
American Planning Association – Employment listings for community and environmental planning.
American School Directory – An internet guide to all 106,000 K-12 schools.
Association of Science-Technology Centers – Designer job listings are found under the Exhibit/Curatorial link.
Employment and Careers – Planning and Employment and Careers – Architecture – Architecture Employment Listings – Cyburbia (The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center) has two excellent employment listings for architects.
Career Alternatives for Art Historians – Alternatives compiled by Charles M. Rosenberg.
K-12 Academic Employment Network – Job listings for K-12, higher education, teaching, and administrative. Perhaps not a long list of positions, however, all states are listed.
K-12 Education Jobs – A job list maintained by NationJob Network.
K-12 JobWeb Database of US School Districts – A searchable database of 16,588 U.S. School Districts.
K-12 Private School Employment Network
K-12 Teacher Jobs – Teaching and administrative job listings. This site maintained by National Educators Employment Review.
Museum Employment – Chicago Art Institute – Job listings for both the museum and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (non-teaching). All types of jobs are listed from technical support to administrative.
Museum Job Resources Online(UPDATED LINK)
Museum Resource Board – Job Database – An excellent listing of museum related job opportunities from around the country.
Teaching – Positions in academia, a list of internet references/links from the JobHunt resource.
Teaching – College Arts Association – The CAA provides a number of career development services for its members.
Teaching Jobs – Presented by Education Week. Job listings by region including positions from K-12 to higher education.
Teaching – NationJob Network – Teaching positions from K-12 to college/university with an emphasis in the Mid West.
Teaching – Higher Ed Jobs Online – An excellent resource for those seeking teaching positions in higher education.
Teaching Positions – College/university level teaching positions as listed by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
University Positions
ART/DESIGN EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
Most agencies work with advanced individuals seeking mid and upper level opportunities. However, some do work with entry level positions and freelancers.
Find Net Work – A new media placement agency specializing in senior-level new media opportunities. Placement opportunities in web development, project management, programming, internet and intranet design, marketing, new business development, and technology management. Their site also has tips on résumés, interviews, and more.
Graphic Arts Employment Specialists – Graphic Arts Employment Specialists provides professional, nationwide recruiting and placement services.
Graphic Resources – A national recruitment firm, specializing in printing, packaging and electronic publishing.
RitaSue Siegel Resources – A design executive search consulting firm. Positions are listed for the entire country and abroad.
RGA – Roz Goldfarb Associates – This is an agency that mostly deals with finding people for senior level jobs (design related), however, some starting/production jobs are listed. Contact with the listed employers is handled by RGA. Most of the positions are in the East (in or near New York City).
TempArt – TempArt is a Temporary Employment Agency for Ad Agencies, Graphic Design Firms and Corporate Art Departments.
Wert & Company – An international recruitment firm specializing in executive searches within the creative community. Wert & Company represents high quality candidates.