Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers

by Betty Gardner and Elizabeth Gardner

Book Overview

Describes the training, education, and skills needed for a career in architecture, fashion design, printmaking, graphic design, jewelry making, and landscape design. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071448497
• ISBN13: 9780071448499
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Hobbies to Careers

Excellent advice on how to pursue careers in the arts and crafts fields and professions. It is practical and fun to read especially since so many opportunities in these fields are discussed. The histories of these fields are very good as are the processes involved. It makes one want to pursue one's interest in arts and crafts!

Valuable compendium for those considering a career in crafts

This book is a valuable guide for students considering a career in the arts. Each career path includes a brief history, a description of the actual processes involved in the work and discusses training options and job potentials. A particular strength of the book lies in including some of the more unusual crafts like book binding, stained glass design and weaving.

This Book Offers an Exceptional Measure of Information

Do you sometimes think to yourself when you're doing a project, "I wouldn't mind doing this for a career." Then the one question you must definitely ask yourself is, "What procedures must I take in order to develop a career out of my talent?" This book can get you started in the right direction. Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers offers you a clear understanding about the various careers available, the skills needed, and how to get started. I wanted to read this book to find out if it would help out fellow woodworkers who would like to pursue a career with their skills, and if it had information for them to get started in one. I've found that not only does it provide information for these two avenues, but also an understanding of the history of the craft. I extremely recommend this book for those who would like to seek a career in the arts and crafts. Elizabeth B. Gardner has performed an exceptional measure of research, in order to write this book with the facts provided in it.

This book is very engaging & accessible..with great strength

I applaud Elizabeth Gardner for authoring Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers. This book is a very engaging and accessible reference to a multitude of careers that are too often overlooked by students, their teachers, parents, and counselors. The book covers a broad scope of career opportunities including fine art, applied art or design, and craft. The result is a career reference book with great collective strength.