Also called: Fine Art Handler, Art Installer, Crate Builder
Packs, crates, moves, and installs artwork for galleries, museums, collectors, and shipping companies.
They wrap a painting in special materials, build a custom wooden crate, and drive it in a climate-controlled truck. At a collector's home, they hang a $10 million painting. Careful hands are everything.
Estimate; union art handlers in New York earn more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. No degree required; many are artists themselves; trained on the job.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Studio Art.
Growing about average. Steady demand in major art markets.
Low risk for 10 years. Packing, crating and installing priceless work is careful physical work robots don't do.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to art shipping companies, galleries and museums for art handler or installer jobs
Classes: Woodshop, Physical education, Art.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-4013.
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