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Sculptor : Crafts : Artist
Sculptors use artistic and manual skill to design and create original drawings and sculptures. They work with hand tools such as gouges, chisels, and knives. Sculptors are experts in the complete design process: drawing outlines on materials, roughing out designs, cutting along outlines, and carving details using hand tools.
Sculptors shape, carve and work with materials such as clay, stone, wood, metal, paper, and ice. Their end products are sculptures, statues, and other three dimensional artwork.
Most Sculptors are self-employed and responsible for the production, distribution and sale of their own work. They may also produce commissioned work for sale at a larger retail level.
Skills
- A natural artistic ability
- Comfortable working with a wide variety of materials
- Strong visualization skills
- Good manual dexterity
- A sense of design and structural detail
- The desire to work as a self-employed artist
About the Sector
The Craft Sector is populated by a family of artistic practices within the decorative arts that traditionally are defined as functional or utilitarian products. Natural media as wood, clay, glass, textiles, and metal have been traditionally used but recently plastics and other man-made materials have found their way into the artistic work. Craftspeople make furniture, blow glass, create ceramics and pottery, work with fabric, or metal.
About the ArtistCategory
Express Yourself
Artists participate in many cultural sectors. Visual artists create original works of art through various mediums such as drawings, paintings, collage, and photography. Dancers perform classical, modern, or acrobatic dances in theatre, film, and television productions. Musicians perform with bands, choirs, orchestras, opera companies, and as solo artists. Actors and Comedians perform roles in theatre, musical, television, radio and film productions. Increasingly, new modes of artistic expression are being explored thanks to the availability of emerging technologies and new methods of image and sound creation. These new digital mediums are comprised of formats such as digital illustration and collage, 2D and 3D animation, and digital video and sound design.
Collaborate
Artists thrive in creatively nurturing environments. Musicians often play a collaborative role with vocalists, filmmakers, and television producers and directors. They are comfortable with live performance (performed solo or as part of group), and own the ability to improvise and play songs and musical styles on demand. Dancers perform as soloists, with partners and with dance ensembles. They collaborate with choreographers in order to refine or develop dance steps and routines. Graphic Designers consult with clients to determine their specific needs in order to produce work that meets their communication goals and is also visually appropriate. In all artistic disciplines, collaboration and client/audience participation is the cornerstone of innovation and artistic exploration.
Find An Audience
An actor’s most prized talent is their abilities to convey the complete depth of the human experience through their words and actions. They demonstrate their ability and talent via an intense audition process and through tireless theatre, film, and television performance. Visual Artists are for the most part self-employed and focus on the production and distribution/display of their own creative work. A singer’s most prized talent is their ability to convey a wide range of human emotions and experience through the power of their voice. Talent and demonstrated ability via live performance and/or studio expertise are the keys to employability in the music and acting industries. For the visual artist, creative ability and artistic talent is demonstrated by their portfolio of work.
Relevant Skills
Job Related Skills
- deal with the public
- eye for detail
- visual culture knowledge
Sector Related Skills
Category Related Skills
- I like to work alone
Required Education
Skills are often learned through apprenticeship with a master craftsperson. Training programs are offered by private studios, artisan guilds, and colleges.