Thursday, January 23, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
College and Career Research
Chosen
Career: Art (museum) Curator
1.
Why
did this career field appeal to you?
The
career that I chose is a Museum Curator. This field appeals to me in that,
unlike other art and photography careers, this one seems more tailored to ones
who appreciate the historical, cultural and aesthetic values that significant
artwork brings, as the main responsibility for museum curators is the
preservation, display and ultimately research and cataloguing of such products
under their care. For those who appreciate art but prefer to use their writing
and research skills in a more artistic fashion, this is the career to be.
2.
What
are the pros of going to this college program and/or career?
Some
pros in terms of going to this career is that, as an overseer to culturally and
historically significant artifacts, museum curators hold the prestigious
responsibility of being an important figure for the preservation said
artifacts. However, more than just the prestige is also the benefits of being
able to increase skills in researching, organizing, as well as being able to
reach out to the general public by organizing fundraisers and creating exhibits
to display certain artifacts. Being a curator also means being able to expand
and gain knowledge from a variety of different areas based on their educational
background, as they can readily apply past knowledge from large selection of
other career fields such as scientists, mineral scientists or paleobiology.
Because of this, aspiring and future curators can choose which specialized
subject area they want to explore.
3.
What
scholarships or grants does the college offer to financially assist students?
At the California College of the Arts, this
college’s financial aid package consists of merit-based scholarships to
students applying to CCA. As with standard protocol for many other colleges,
students are encouraged to complete the FAFSA to receive additional financial
aid.
4.
How
long is the college program? Associates or Bachelors?
The
California College of the Arts offers a two-year Graduate Program (the first of
its kind in the west coast), with the first year having an emphasis in core
classes that require gaining essential skills, while the second year focuses
more on actually testing those skills as students are challenged to
independently manage, direct and run their own exhibition and research on an
art topic of their choice.
5.
What
is the common earning (i.e. salary) of someone in this position? (might
need to go to Career Cruising for this)
The
average earning that a museum curator works per year full-time is around $28,000
and $88,000 a year.
6.
What
is one interesting fact that you learned from the college website?
One interesting fact that I learned upon
exploring what this college offers is that, as mentioned before, its graduate program
is one of the first programs of its kind, as it further supports the rapid
growth of this specific career field in the art world today, due to the
expansion of larger museums, art galleries and with the advent of the internet
which allows for the display of art through blogs, websites, and through other
digital means, the art of curating is becoming widely accessible, both as a
career field and even in “unofficial terms” applied to everyday life situations
by “curating” one’s won facebook or twitter page. With that said, the rise of
digital technology has led to the birth of actual digital curators, whose main
role is to catalogue and digitally preserve significant works of arts through
the vast repository of the internet.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
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