Art Career Opportunites
Your career with an art degree
Art majors at MUM learn principles of problem solving, design, and creative thinking that can be applied to all areas of life. They gain competence in manual skills, a thorough grounding in technical knowledge, and an understanding of materials and processes in specific areas of art. Our graduates enjoy careers as artists, educators, designers, and photographers, as well as in arts administration, advertising, and website design. A number have also gone on to graduate school.
Successful Graduates
• Paul Moore, internationally known commercial photographer whose clients include, Sony, Dell, Saatchi, Random House , Simon Schuster, Epson, Ebay, Hewlett Packard, and Williams Sonoma.
• Josh Podoll, painter and clothing designer, represented in top galleries. His creative clothing company is based on sustainability, organic materials, and ethical employment practices.
• Radim Shreiber, designer at Sky Factory (an innovative interior design company). He recently won a national award in photography from The Smithsonian Magazine.
• Ceyrena Kay, assistant professor of art at MUM; master’s degree in landscape architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design.
• Alek Bohnak, MFA UC Davis, gallery operations manager at Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, CA. He also teaches part time at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento and maintains a studio at Verge Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where he recently had a one-person show.
• Maria Merino, cultures and values coordinator for Four Years Go, a campaign to inspire people with the possibility of a different world, a thriving, just, and sustainable world.
• Mikaila Maidment, self-employed artist and designer.
• Laura Guthrie, self-employed artist and designer.
• Shana Cordon, self-employed artist and designer.
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