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A Career in the Arts

The Complex Learning and Career Needs of Creative Professionals

Gary A. Berg

There is a gap in knowledge about artistic careers--few people fully understand the economics and sociology of the visual and performing arts. The public impression of the lives of artists are distorted because typically only the very successful get attention. Society generalizes based on those people who are statistical exceptions, not by looking at average careers, let alone those who discontinue their pursuit of arts professions.

For emerging young artists, it is essential to know the histories of the different performing and visual arts, and their training and craft traditions. Additionally, understanding the role of informal learning, differences in types of institutions, approaches to teaching-learning, and the subsequent likely career impact is important. While some have hailed the advances in the arts as a result of new technology, changes in the finances of performers are greatly impacted by the digital world. Many have commented on the greying audiences for classical music and opera, but the characteristics of the younger generations who appear to want to view, listen, and interact with visual and performance art differently may be even more impactful.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 170 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-4758-6236-2 • Hardback • April 2022 • $74.00 • (£57.00)
978-1-4758-6237-9 • Paperback • April 2022 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-4758-6238-6 • eBook • March 2022 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Education / Counseling / Career Development, Education / Professional Development, Education / Arts in Education

Gary A. Berg, PhD, MFA, is the author or editor of ten previous books including The Rise of Women in Higher Education: How, Why, and What's Next and Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality, as well as numerous articles and short stories. Berg has an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, and an MA in Film Studies from San Francisco State University.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Economics of the Arts

Chapter 2: Bias, the Failure Taboo, and Transitions to Sustainable Careers

Chapter 3: Educational Traditions, Patronage, and Student Debt

Chapter 4: Arts Institutions, Curricula, and Approaches to Teaching
Conclusion: The Artists of the Future

Bibliography

Author’s Biography

Berg's apt, well-researched, well-written book is both poetic and pragmatic…. Berg draws from national employment data and extensive content analysis of hundreds of interviews with artists and historians as well as secondary sources. The combination of quantitative data and qualitative perspectives creates a unique structure for a book providing job and career information. Similar to other career books, this one includes tables of different job titles, mean wages, and projected openings pulled from commonly used job sources such as the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, Berg offers historical and sociological perspectives that contextualize the more nuanced directions a creative professional career path may take. Invaluable for all who are in the creative arts or interested in pursuing the vast and varied career options in the arts. Highly recommended. All readers.


— Choice Reviews


Gary Berg provides a thoughtful, extremely well-researched analysis of the systemic challenges and potential opportunities for creative professionals as they pursue their careers. This “bird’s eye view” of the field will be extremely helpful to individual artists in their quest as well as to arts executives, policymakers and educators seeking to strengthen the cultural ecosystem and support artists in their efforts to bring joy, beauty and a sense of our shared humanity to our communities.


— Rachel S. Moore, President & CEO of The Music Center and author of The Artist’s Compass: The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts


This book provides a topical and timey overview of the fraught circumstances of today’s professionalization – some would say industrialization – of contemporary artistic creativity and invention of all kinds. It’s appearance coincides with a moment of profound changes in creative lives (and not only professions!) of all kinds, and is driven by data, not opinion, regarding creative worlds that need facts today as much as they do artists and their audiences. I recommend it whole-heartedly.


— Brett Steele, Dean UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture


1/31/23, Choice: This book was included in a roundup of top community college titles.

Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-january-2023-edition/



A Career in the Arts

The Complex Learning and Career Needs of Creative Professionals

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • There is a gap in knowledge about artistic careers--few people fully understand the economics and sociology of the visual and performing arts. The public impression of the lives of artists are distorted because typically only the very successful get attention. Society generalizes based on those people who are statistical exceptions, not by looking at average careers, let alone those who discontinue their pursuit of arts professions.

    For emerging young artists, it is essential to know the histories of the different performing and visual arts, and their training and craft traditions. Additionally, understanding the role of informal learning, differences in types of institutions, approaches to teaching-learning, and the subsequent likely career impact is important. While some have hailed the advances in the arts as a result of new technology, changes in the finances of performers are greatly impacted by the digital world. Many have commented on the greying audiences for classical music and opera, but the characteristics of the younger generations who appear to want to view, listen, and interact with visual and performance art differently may be even more impactful.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 170 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
    978-1-4758-6236-2 • Hardback • April 2022 • $74.00 • (£57.00)
    978-1-4758-6237-9 • Paperback • April 2022 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
    978-1-4758-6238-6 • eBook • March 2022 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
    Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Education / Counseling / Career Development, Education / Professional Development, Education / Arts in Education
Author
Author
  • Gary A. Berg, PhD, MFA, is the author or editor of ten previous books including The Rise of Women in Higher Education: How, Why, and What's Next and Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality, as well as numerous articles and short stories. Berg has an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, and an MA in Film Studies from San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Economics of the Arts

    Chapter 2: Bias, the Failure Taboo, and Transitions to Sustainable Careers

    Chapter 3: Educational Traditions, Patronage, and Student Debt

    Chapter 4: Arts Institutions, Curricula, and Approaches to Teaching
    Conclusion: The Artists of the Future

    Bibliography

    Author’s Biography

Reviews
Reviews
  • Berg's apt, well-researched, well-written book is both poetic and pragmatic…. Berg draws from national employment data and extensive content analysis of hundreds of interviews with artists and historians as well as secondary sources. The combination of quantitative data and qualitative perspectives creates a unique structure for a book providing job and career information. Similar to other career books, this one includes tables of different job titles, mean wages, and projected openings pulled from commonly used job sources such as the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, Berg offers historical and sociological perspectives that contextualize the more nuanced directions a creative professional career path may take. Invaluable for all who are in the creative arts or interested in pursuing the vast and varied career options in the arts. Highly recommended. All readers.


    — Choice Reviews


    Gary Berg provides a thoughtful, extremely well-researched analysis of the systemic challenges and potential opportunities for creative professionals as they pursue their careers. This “bird’s eye view” of the field will be extremely helpful to individual artists in their quest as well as to arts executives, policymakers and educators seeking to strengthen the cultural ecosystem and support artists in their efforts to bring joy, beauty and a sense of our shared humanity to our communities.


    — Rachel S. Moore, President & CEO of The Music Center and author of The Artist’s Compass: The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts


    This book provides a topical and timey overview of the fraught circumstances of today’s professionalization – some would say industrialization – of contemporary artistic creativity and invention of all kinds. It’s appearance coincides with a moment of profound changes in creative lives (and not only professions!) of all kinds, and is driven by data, not opinion, regarding creative worlds that need facts today as much as they do artists and their audiences. I recommend it whole-heartedly.


    — Brett Steele, Dean UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture


Features
Features
  • 1/31/23, Choice: This book was included in a roundup of top community college titles.

    Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-january-2023-edition/



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