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From maker to manager
From maker to manager
Why running a craft fair can be more fulfilling than making, and advice for new makers.
Becoming a creative social entrepreneur
Becoming a creative social entrepreneur
How the Devon School for Social Entrepreneurs is helping creative businesses.
All fired up: A career in ceramics
All fired up: A career in ceramics
Potter Nic Harrison discusses old and new challenges in his craft.
A career in carnival
A career in carnival
Carnival artists and teachers on learning varied skills
My music business mentor
My music business mentor
Two performing artists talk about their mentoring relationship.

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Job profiles

  • Job profile: graphic designer

    Graphic designers work with words and visual images to put across ideas and information.

  • Job profile: finance staff (heritage sector)

    Finance staff provide administrative support to organisations in heritage.

  • Job profile: manager - arts centre

    All cultural activities and organisations need accounting and administrative support to take care of their business activity.

  • Job profile: project organiser

    All historic building projects need dedicated strategic support, direction, financial guidance to advance the business of saving or improving historic buildings and places.

  • Job profile: producer, engineer

    A producer's role is to pull together the component parts of a sound recording, working with a band, deciding on the musicians required, what type of recording process and how much budget is available for the studio time.

  • Job profile: rural crafts maker

    Rural craft workers are involved in a range of rural crafts using the materials in the countryside to make artifacts and to carry out traditional techniques.

  • Job profile: school liaison staff

    School liaison staff work to support teachers and development workers in cultural and heritage centres, museums and historical sites to enable pupils and students to get the best educational experience from their visit.

  • Job profile: music programmer

    Programmers in the music industry are responsible for programming the artistic activities for an individual artist, group, band, company, or a venue (eg club, concert hall or opera house).

  • Job profile: blacksmith

    Blacksmiths create ornamental and functional objects by hot forging a wide range of metals.

  • Job profile: circus performer

    Circus performers work in traditional touring circuses, at festivals and outdoor events and, increasingly, in staged musical performances in theatres and other arts venues.

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