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Creative Careers in Crafts
by Susan Joy Sager
This state-of-the-art career guide guarantees informed choices for anyone seeking to pursue a creative career full-time or on the side. Featuring profiles of nearly fifty professionals from every area of the industry, this comprehensive career resource provides budding craftspeople and artists with a rich overview of the vast career opportunities that are open to the artistically talented. Written by a market-savvy crafts career advisor, the book provides valuable tips on how to make the transition from a normal day job to a dream craft career and includes a unique section for young craftspeople and their parents.
Systematically organized by type of material—clay, fiber, metal, glass, and wood–-each chapter informs through an enticing mix of inspirational profiles, an introduction to each medium, and information on where to find education and professional support. Within the chapters, readers will find career advice on the various sub-genres of each craft, e.g. the chapter on fiber art branches out into baskets, beads, book arts, dolls, quilts, wearables, weaving, and yarn.
With a section on the history of the crafts industry and the contemporary scene, cutting-edge industry surveys, and self-help planning tools such as how to create a business plan, this authoritative guide offers readers both a self-help teaching tool and a career advisor. This thorough, empowering volume will appeal not only to beginning crafters looking to start a career, but also to individuals who want to turn their creative talents or part-time activity into a full-time occupation.
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Reviews
“Susan Joy Sager provides a fascinating review of the evolution of crafts through the ages, leading up to the many options available to creative men and women today.”
—Rebecca Ortinau, Features Editor, Crafts 'n Things®
“This book is a ‘must read guide’ to helpyou develop a successful career in crafts.”
—Ann Barber, Director of NCA Membership Benefits, National Craft Association
“Susan Sager articulates issues and opportunities for aspiring craftspeople in this thoroughly researched and clearly written book. It's a great resource for getting to know the craft field.”
—Stuart Kestenbaum, Director, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
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