Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals

Key Tasks

• •Conceiving and developing ideas, designs and styles for paintings, drawings, pottery pieces and sculptures
• •Arranging objects, positioning models, and selecting landscapes and other visual forms according to chosen subject matter
• •Selecting artistic media, method and materials
• •Applying media to surfaces using appropriate techniques
• •Moulding clay into functional and artistic articles by wheel-throwing, moulding and hand-building
• •Mixing glazing materials and applying glazes to dried pottery by dipping and painting
• •Placing finished and decorated pieces in kilns
• •Sketching designs of proposed sculptures, and making wax and plaster models
• •Devising forms from metal using welding and metalworking equipment, and from stone using masonry tools
• •Carving and forming materials to desired shape using hand and power tools

Employment Projections to 2034