Museum Education Director: Leads all educational programs at a museum: school tours, family days, teen programs, and online learning. Typical pay $95k.
High School Art Teacher: Teaches drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, and design to high school students. Typical pay $65k.
Elementary Art Teacher: Teaches art to young kids, often every class in the school. Typical pay $63k.
Art Therapist: Uses art-making to help people cope with trauma, illness, and mental health challenges. Typical pay $62k.
Public Art Program Manager: Runs a city's or transit agency's public art program, commissioning murals and sculptures. Typical pay $75k.
Arts Grant Writer: Writes the proposals that win funding for museums, theaters, and arts programs. Typical pay $60k.
Arts Program Manager: Runs programs at an arts nonprofit, like youth art classes, artist residencies, or festivals. Typical pay $58k.
Art Curriculum Designer: Creates art lessons, online courses, and teaching materials for schools, museums, and companies. Typical pay $68k.
Dance/Movement Therapist: Uses dance and movement to help people heal emotionally and physically. Typical pay $58k.
Music Therapist: Uses music to help patients with pain, disabilities, mental health, and recovery. Typical pay $57k.
Drama Therapist: Uses acting, role-play, and storytelling to help people work through trauma and build confidence. Typical pay $55k.
Museum Accessibility Coordinator: Makes museums welcoming for visitors with disabilities, running touch tours, ASL tours, sensory-friendly hours, and accessible exhibits. Typical pay $62k.
Poetry Therapist: Uses poems, stories, and journaling to help people work through grief, trauma, or illness in hospitals, schools, and clinics. Typical pay $58k.
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Teaching Artist: A working artist who teaches classes in schools, community centers, and studios. Typical pay $40k.
Museum Educator: Leads tours, workshops, and hands-on activities for visitors at museums. Typical pay $46k.
Paint-and-Sip Instructor: Leads fun step-by-step painting parties at studios, bars, and events. Typical pay $32k.
Summer Camp Arts Instructor: Teaches arts and crafts to kids at summer camps and after-school programs. Typical pay $32k.
Art Supply Store Specialist: Helps artists choose paints, brushes, papers, and tools at art supply stores. Typical pay $33k.
Hospital Artist-in-Residence: Makes art with patients, families, and staff in hospitals to reduce stress and bring joy. Typical pay $45k.
Art Portfolio Prep Instructor: Helps teens build art portfolios to apply to art schools and design programs. Typical pay $45k.
Arts-in-Corrections Teaching Artist: Teaches painting, music, writing, or theater inside prisons and juvenile centers to help people build skills and hope. Typical pay $45k.
University Art Studio Technician: Keeps college art studios running, maintaining kilns, woodshops, foundries, and printing presses and teaching students to use them safely. Typical pay $46k.
Adaptive Art Instructor: Teaches art to kids and adults with disabilities, adapting tools and lessons so everyone can create. Typical pay $42k.
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