What Artists Do
Click on the career. Do what the artist does.
Book
Illustrator
Look at the wonderful pictures in your favorite picture book. An artist
painted them.
Muralist
Muralists are artists that make big paintings on a wall. Often, these
paintings tell a story. Many public buildings have murals. Here is a mural
painted by elementary school children and another mural painted by an
artist living in Tempe, Arizona.
Check out murals in Tucson, Arizona. http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/folkarts/murals.html
And in San Francisco, California http://www.talamasca.com/~cuccia/photos/coit/
Web Site Designer
Jeffery Domke
As a web site designer at ASU, my responsibilities include creating
new web pages and updating existing ones. Most of my work is trying to
define what my clients and users needs are and then create a design that
will meet those needs. This career allows me to express my creativity
and use the latest computer technologies.
Museum
Curator
Have you been to a museum? A museum curator helps to take care of and
display what you saw.
Heather Lineberry ASU Art Museum curator
As a curator at the ASU Art Museum, my responsibilities include organizing
art exhibitions and working with our permanent collection. Most of my
exhibitions are of contemporary art -- art being made today. I work with
the artist to select the work and present it to the public with catalogs,
brochures, lectures and events.
Dance
Modern Dancers
People have danced since the beginning of time. Modern dance is quite
a new way of dancing. It uses the body in a very free way to explore time,
space and movement.
Costume Designer
Designing costumes (deciding what they will look like)
is one of the most interesting jobs in dance and theatre. The designer
needs to find out about the dance or the play. He or she then needs to
decide what the dancer or actor will wear. Will it be party clothes, or
work clothes? What colors will look best?
Dance Teacher
Dance teachers make up lessons for their students to learn about dance
and how to dance. They help their students find ways to use time, space
and movement to express their ideas. They often demonstrate, show, the
students ideas to use in their dances. Sometimes they may dance with their
students to help them learn. Many schools want dance teachers.
Music
Click on the career. Do what the artist does.
Composer http://www.creatingmusic.com
Composers make up music. They write music for people to sing. They write
music for musicians to play on the piano or a horn or a violin. Some composers
make up music to play on objects you can find at home.
Church Organist
Kimberly Marshall playing the organ
I give concerts on the pipe organ. I am invited to concert halls,
churches and universities all over the world to perform on the organ.
Instrumentalist
http://www.datadragon.com/education/instruments
Musicians learn to play many different kinds of instruments. They can
learn to make music by blowing into a horn, by stroking a bow across the
strings of a violin, by using their fingers to play a piano. They have
to learn about music, but they also have to practice on their instrument.
Musicians practice everyday to make certain they play the notes just the
way the composer wanted them to be played.
Click on Instrumentalist to find out about the four different
kinds of instruments.
Marina Beck with, a flute player
Music has brought endless amounts of joy to my life. I am looking
forward to a career where I can love the work I do everyday.
Theater
Click on the career. Do what the artist does.
Playwright
Playwrights make up plays for actors to perform for an audience. They
get to choose what characters (who) will be in the play. They choose the
setting (where the play will take place). They choose the problem or story
for the play. They write what the characters say.
David Saar, playwright and artistic director of Childsplay
Actor
Katie McFadzen, Childsplay actor
As a theatre performer, my job is to communicate
a story to an audience! I do that by using my voice, body and imagination
to become someone other than myself.
Before I can perform in a play, I have to rehearse. Rehearsal includes
learning the blocking (movement) and if it is a musical, learning the
music and choreography (dancing). I usually rehearse a play for about
3 or 4 weeks, 5 to 6 days a week, 6 to 8 hours a day. I have homework,
too, which includes memorizing my lines and blocking.
Before we can perform, we have to go through technical rehearsals. That’s
where we add lights, sound, scenery and costumes to the play.
The only thing left is the audience! Once the play opens, we usually perform
10 to 12 times a week for 3 or 4 weeks! While it’s a fun job, it
is a lot of work.
Oh, and don’t think we make money like the movie stars! The money
we make is enough to live on. Most theatre performers make about the same
or less as teachers do.
Puppeteer
Gordon Hensley and one of his puppets.
Check out his web site http://cre8tivedrama.freeservers.com/puppetry
  
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