Career Choices
Study of art opens the mind to unforeseeable possibilities. It is an opportunity to identify and value your own particular and unique set of skills, skills that are transferable to an evolving and wide range of applications and career paths.
UB Visual Studies alumni enter a range of professions where creative problem solving, critical thinking, and an understanding of cultural context is valued, such as art galleries, museums, alternative spaces, and auction houses as directors, curators, preparators, installers, and art handlers, as well as in conservation, fabrication, grant writing, fund raising and educational programming.
Art History majors pursuing a career in teaching have gone on to graduate study in art history at universities such as Yale, Columbia, Michigan, North Carolina, CCNY, Delaware, and New Mexico. Other students have complimented their undergraduate degree in art history with graduate study in fields such as business, library science, management, and law, and are successfully pursuing careers in libraries, stock brokerage firms, advertising, museums, art galleries, design firms, and conservation.
Many of our alumni are recognized, independent artists who work and exhibit nationally and internationally, successfully compete for public and private commissions, and have received numerous top national and international awards. Others are assistants, collaborators and project coordinators to world-class artists. Our students have become professors and lecturers at leading colleges and universities, and teachers at community colleges, secondary schools, and arts-in-education programs throughout North America. They are art therapists in health care professions, schools, community centers and correctional facilities. Our students are technical instructors and shop managers in fine art and commercial photography, printmaking, casting, and welding enterprises.
UB Visual Studies alumni write critical reviews and essays on art and popular culture, they work as illustrators, web page designers, electronic publishers, and developers of interactive and electronic media. They publish fine art editions, run galleries, printing firms, custom framing businesses, and casting foundries, among others.
Graduate alumni Web sites are listed on our blog.
