Exploring Creative Careers

Selected Participants include

  • Jennifer Behr, Jennifer Behr LLC
  • Carlos Zamora, CARTEL
  • Gina Grafos, Kranzberg Arts Foundation
  • Brandon Anschultz, Kranzberg Arts Foundation
  • Jessica Rogen, St. Louis Public Radio
  • Angelique Joseph, Caleres, Inc.
  • Tucker Pierce, Kaleidoscope Management
  • Martin Padilla, Trivers Architects

Over the past handful of years, former students across academic units have built creative careers in a multitude of disciplines, practices, and industries:

  • Admissions officer – university
  • Creative director – advertising
  • Photographer
  • Museum educator – Guggenheim
  • Artist/Adjunct professor
  • Program assistant – Whitney
  • Freelance video editor
  • Curatorial fellow
  • Digital media coordinator — arts organizations/institutions
  • Art therapist
  • Assistant curator – Skirball Cultural Center
  • Development manager — Headlands Center for the arts (and other artist residencies)
  • Education director — galleries and museums of all sizes
  • Marketing and virtual curriculum coordinator 
  • Design consultant and product designer
  • Illustrator/art director 
  • Freelance editorial illustrator (gigs include Oxford American and New Yorker)
  • Content strategist
  • Curatorial Assistant, Prints, Drawings, Photographs
  • Senior Sales Team Leader, Inside Asia Tours
  • Coordinator (Production and Post Production) — various film/movie studios
  • Director of Strategic Communications at the WashU School of Law
  • Art Director/Set Designer at places like HBO, Netflix, Hulu etc
  • Curator at libraries/cultural houses
  • Lead floral designer
  • Custom Tailor/costume design
  • Muralist/surface pattern designer
  • Secondary artist teacher/ artist/international schools
  • Social worker
  • Marketing associate at major encyclopedic and contemporary museums
  • Landscape designer
  • Children’s book author
  • Brand director
  • Jewelry designer
  • Textiles & handmade clothing
  • User experience designer
  • Quality program manager
  • Multimedia artist/creative production designer
  • Arts educator
  • Display coordinator
  • Experience design (retail, museums)
  • Curriculum designer – Waldorf
  • Artist/educator
  • Artist/non profit program director
  • Furniture and lighting designer
  • Art and collection advisor
  • UX designer
  • Editorial art direction
  • Designer/architect/project director
  • Editor, publishing
  • Textiles