Interested in how a museum or gallery operates, raises funds, advocates, and markets their artists and programs? Arts Management may be your fit. Curious about the intersection of art, sound, and science? An experience in Sound Art or film audio production may be your path.
Eph artists can be…dancers, graphic designers, stand up comics, art therapists, set designers, music composers, curators, sculptors, fashion designers, architects, poets, authors, cartoonists, art educators, visual designers, film production assistants, animators, and the list continues…There is an intersection of skills, education, and experiential learning in these fields. Once you combine these with a bit of planning and networking you will be on your way! Check out ArtSearch, a NEW and a must resource for the art industry!
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Resources (still in the works)
Becoming a creative professional:
Books/TEDx
- Art Thinking, Amy Whitaker (A Williams Alumna...check out...Art Thinking and Innovating - Wouldn't It Be Cool If? / TEDxTarrytown)
- Designing Your Life, How to Build A Well-Lived Joyful Life, Burnett,& Evans
- Envisioning Information, Tufte
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Those who want to pursue careers as creative artists — on stage, in front of a camera, in print, or on canvas — are those that must have the greatest passion of all. Finding mentors who can encourage, coach, and promote is essential when beginning this most competitive of career paths.
General Arts Resources:
- ArtSearch
- Vault
- Communication Arts Center - Table of contents includes: creative; interactive; career resources (including job listings nationwide); competitions; community forums; design issue columns... lots more!
- Creativejobscentral adds over 10,000 internships and entry-level creative jobs weekly (fee-based)
- hireCulture.org - Creative employment opportunities in Massachusetts. Search by category, region, and organization. Includes a listing of arts organizations and their websites
- The One Club For Creativity
Museums, Galleries, Auction Houses:
Williams College Museum of Art- American Alliance of Museum Over 30,000 individual museum professionals and volunteers, institutions, and corporate partners
- American Association of Museums – Search for jobs by keyword, category, location, job level
- Arts & Business Council of New York Internship Program – “The Arts Management Internship Program is your connection to the arts in New York City! Preference given to African-American, Asian-American, and Latina/o students.
- Art-Collecting.com Lists over 4200 fine art galleries located in the United States by state.
- Artjobs.com – 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 listings of jobs, internships, fellowships and other employment opportunities in the arts
- Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) An interdisciplinary think tank/research group on contemporary issues in art crime
- Association of Art Museum Curators Great resource! internships and fellowships
- CAA (College Art Association)
- Fine Arts Internships Listing
- Global Museum
- Invaluable.com -The world’s premier auctions and galleries
- Listing of Auction Houses and Appraisers that Specialize in Photography from the Library of Congress
- MERC: Museum Employment Resource
- Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships at the Getty Center The Getty offers summer internships in a variety of programs and administrative departments of the Getty Trust to undergraduates of culturally diverse backgrounds
- Museum Jobs
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Those who want to pursue careers as creative artists — on stage, in front of a camera, in print, or on canvas — are those that must have the greatest passion of all. Finding mentors who can encourage, coach, and promote is essential when beginning this most competitive of career paths.
Acting /Film/Theater Resources
Williams Theatre Department- ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance
- Actors Equity Association – News and Events, Services (they will answer questions you have about agencies, auditions, bonding, contracts, etc.), and an extensive casting call search engine
- American Theater Wing
- ArtSearch - your essential source for a career in the arts. Whether you're looking for full-time or part-time, seasonal or year-round, paid or volunteer, ARTSEARCH® makes your job search easy.
- Backstage – “The actor’s resource,” contains Casting & Jobs, Multimedia Resumes, Advice, Listings, News & Features, Reviews, and Yellow Pages
- Broadway World
- EntertainmentCareer.net – Entertainment jobs, internships and career information in the entertainment industry. Search or browse for information about available jobs in entertainment
- Mandy We are the world’s largest creative community of actors, film and TV crew, theatre professionals, child actors, voiceover artists, dancers, singers, musicians, models and extras. We empower professionals to find work in TV studios, on movie sets, in training institutions, events, concert halls, theatre companies and art collectives.
- Playbill
- SAG-AFTRA
- Southern Theater Conference
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Variety
- Williamstown Theatre Festival job listings – For actors, directors, playwrights, administrators, technicians, and volunteers
Dance:
- Williams Dance Department
- American Dance Therapy Association – Education, research, publications, related links.
- National Dance Council of America – Directories, events, news & press releases, informational brochures, and a newsletter.
Music:
- Williams College Music Department
- www.allaccess.com
- Billboard.com
- Chamber Music America – Offers a range of grants and services for jazz (and other non-classical) musicians.
- Classical Grants
- College Music Society
- FilmFreeway.com
- Hitsdailydouble.com
- MusicBusinessWorldwide.com
- National Association for Music Therapy
- Same Day Music has generated a list of Music Schools and other sites with links to information about scholarships and careers.
- The Society for Music Theory – Promotes the development of an engagement with music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline.
- Williams College Music Employment (for students)
Film/TV:
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Student Internship – Any student may apply, regardless of citizenship, if he or she is pursuing a degree at a college or university in the United States.
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Deadline / Hollywood Breaking news in the entertainment industry)
- EntertainmentCareer.net Entertainment jobs, internships and career information in the entertainment industry. Search or browse for information about available jobs in entertainment.” Your Industry Insider is a compilation of entertainment industry insiders’ collective wisdom created to educate and inspire students.
- FilmFreeway.com
- Hollywood Reporter
- The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
- Indiewire – Provides industry news, articles, interviews, information on festivals, competitions and grants, and job listings for writers, actors, and techies. Comprehensive site for those interested in producing, writing, or acting in independent films.
- International Radio and Television Society see summer fellowship program
- Mandy.com
- Media Bistro
- Museum of the Moving Image The Museum of the Moving Image offers paid summer internships. Interns work under the guidance of department heads, and have the opportunity to learn about the full range of Museum operations.
- No Film School
- Production Beast.com
- Realscreen.com
- Showbizjobs.com
- Staff Me Up.com Production Jobs in Film, TV, Digital, Media and Entertainment
- showbiz.com
- Writers Guild
- “Writer’s Write” Screenwriting – “Look here for links to producers, industry information, movies and more!”
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