Craft Artist

Other Titles

Artist, Ceramic Artist, Designer, Fiber Artist, Fine Craft Artist, Furniture Maker, Glass Artist, Glass Blower, Goldsmith, Hand-Weaver

Create or reproduce hand-made objects for sale and exhibition using a variety of techniques, such as welding, weaving, pottery, and needlecraft. Typically create 3D art objects and may utilise materials such as glass, textiles, ceramics, metal, and wood to create these objects. May use 2D art, such as painting and sketching, to touch up the 3D art objects they create. Craft Artists work with art museums, galleries, and related venues to display the finished art products to a target audience. A part of their job is to utilise visual elements such as lighting, space, shading, and color to enhance the effects of the art products.

Create functional or decorative objects by hand, using a variety of methods and materials.

Cut, shape, fit, join, mold, or otherwise process materials, using hand tools, power tools, or machinery.

Apply finishes to objects being crafted.

Develop concepts or creative ideas for craft objects.

Select materials for use based on strength, color, texture, balance, weight, size, malleability and other characteristics.

Advertise products and work, using media such as internet advertising and brochures.

Set specifications for materials, dimensions, and finishes.

Plan and attend craft shows to market products.

Create prototypes or models of objects to be crafted.

Confer with customers to assess customer needs or obtain feedback.

Fabricate patterns or templates to guide craft production.

Develop product packaging, display, and pricing strategies.

Research craft trends, venues, and customer buying patterns to inspire designs and marketing strategies.

Sketch or draw objects to be crafted.

Active Listening→ Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Reading Comprehension→ Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Social Perceptiveness→ Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Speaking→ Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Critical Thinking→ Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Monitoring→ Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Persuasion→ Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Thinking Creatively→ Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Handling and Moving Objects→ Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.

Performing General Physical Activities→ Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work→ Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.

Selling or Influencing Others→ Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.

Monitoring and Controlling Resources→ Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

Performing for or Working Directly with the Public→ Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.

Scheduling Work and Activities→ Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems→ Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings→ Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships→ Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

Controlling Machines and Processes→ Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles.

Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information→ Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.

Performing Administrative Activities→ Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge→ Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.

Apply finishes to artwork, crafts, or displays.

Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.

Select materials or props.

Promote products, activities, or organizations.

Build models, patterns, or templates.

Confer with clients to determine needs.

Develop promotional strategies or plans.

Draw detailed or technical illustrations.

Monitor current trends.

Finger Dexterity→ The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

Originality→ The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Arm-Hand Steadiness→ The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

Manual Dexterity→ The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

Fluency of Ideas→ The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Near Vision→ The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Visualization→ The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Control Precision→ The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Multilimb Coordination→ The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Information Ordering→ The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g. , patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Category Flexibility→ The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Oral Expression→ The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Speech Clarity→ The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Speech Recognition→ The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Deductive Reasoning→ The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Far Vision→ The ability to see details at a distance.

Oral Comprehension→ The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Problem Sensitivity→ The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Visual Color Discrimination→ The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Fine Arts→ Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

Sales and Marketing→ Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Customer and Personal Service→ Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Production and Processing→ Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Design→ Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Mechanical→ Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Analytical or scientific software

Computer aided design CAD software -- Embroidery design software; Pattern design software

Electronic mail software -- Email software

Instant messaging software -- e.g., Twitter

Internet browser software -- Web browser software

Point of sale POS software -- Sales management software

Web page creation and editing software -- e.g., Facebook

Air brushes→ Artists' air brushes

Air cleaners→ Dust collectors

Air compressors→ Electric air compressors; Gas-powered air compressors

Angle gauge→ Digital angle gauges

Angle measuring instrument→ Degree gauges

Anvils→ Bench anvils

Applicator brushes→ Flux brushes; Glue brushes

Artist knives→ Encaustic scrapers

Automatic lathe or chucking machine→ Polishing bench lathes

Bastard cut file→ Bastard hand files

Belt and disc sander→ Belt sanders

Bench scales→ Digital scales

Bench vises→ Bench pins; Workbench vises

Bending machines→ Steam bending tools

Biscuit jointers→ Biscuit joiners

Blade sharpener→ Tool sharpeners

Blow torch→ Butane torches

Bobbins or bobbin holders→ Thread bobbins

Boring machines→ Line boring machines

Burnisher→ Burnishing tools

C clamps

Calipers→ Digital calipers

Calligraphy pens

Candlemaking accessories→ Wick setters

Candlemaking forms→ Candle molds

Carving tools→ Carving knives; Carving mallets

Clay or modeling tools→ Bevel tools; Ceramic loop tools; Clay cutters; Clay mixers; Detail carving tools; Edging tools; Extruder dies; Fettling knives; Hand glaze mixers; Handlemaker tools; Mold knives; Pot lifts; Potter's ribs; Pottery cleanup tools; Pottery duster brushes; Pugmills; Round hole punches; Saber saws; Sgraffito tools; Slab mats; Slab rollers; Square hole cutters; Tile presses

Combination pliers→ Half-round pliers

Commercial use molds→ Soap molds

Coping saw→ Coping saws

Corner clamps

Crochet hooks

Cross and straight pein hammer→ Chasing hammers; Jewelers' planishing hammers

Cutting die→ Disc cutter dies

Diagonal cut pliers→ Flush cutters

Domestic clothing irons→ Steam irons

Dovetail machine→ Dovetail jigs

Dressmakers ruler→ Sewing rulers

Drill press or radial drill→ Benchtop drill presses; Floor mount drill presses; Mini drill presses

Drum sander→ Drum sanders

Drying cabinets or ovens→ Drying cabinets

Dye sublimination printers→ Image sublimation printers

Ear plugs→ Hearing protection plugs

Edge bander→ Edge banding machines

Electrolytic bath machine→ Electroplating machines

Extruders for modeling materials→ Handheld clay extruders

Fabric frame→ Quilting frames

Fabric or cloth folding machines→ Bias tape machines

Facial shields→ Face shields

Felting machines→ Feltmaking machines

Floor looms

Gas burners→ Bunsen burners

Glass blowing instrument→ Bead shaping molds; Blowhoses; Glass rakes; Glassworking lathes; Graphite paddles; Graphite reamers; Hollow mandrels; Lampworking torches; Lathe burners; Marble molds; Parallel mashers; Push and blow tubes; Stainless steel mandrels

Glass cutters→ Glass cutting shears; Glass rod nippers; Spring-loaded tubing cutters

Grinding machines→ Ball mills

Half round file→ Half-round hand files; Half-round needle files

Hammers→ Bush hammers; Riveting hammers; Texturing hammers

Hand looms→ Inkle looms; Lap looms; Small hand looms; Tapestry looms

Handheld thermometer→ Digital thermometers

Heat guns→ Electric heat guns

Height gauges

Hex keys→ Allen wrenches

Hold down clamps→ Hold-down clamps

Hose or pipe clamps→ Pipe clamps

Hydrometers→ Digital hydrometers

Inkjet printers→ Color inkjet printers

Jewellers pliers→ Jewelers' chain-nose pliers; Jewelers' crimper pliers; Jewelers' flat nose pliers; Jewelers' forming pliers; Jewelers' link forming pliers; Jewelers' prong-closing pliers; Jewelers' solder cutting pliers; Jewelers' wire looping pliers

Jewelry mandrels→ Ring mandrels

Jigsaw→ Jigsaws

Kiln accessories for firing ceramics→ Kiln oxygen probes; Kiln ventilation hoods

Kiln furniture→ Ceramic bead bars; Kiln carts

Kilns for firing ceramics→ Electric kilns; Gas kilns; Pottery kilns; Raku kilns; Glass kilns

Lapping machine→ Reciprocating lapping machines

Levels→ Laser levels; Precision levels

Lighters→ Torch igniters

Loupes→ Jewelers' loupes

Magnetic stripe readers and encoders→ Credit card machines

Mallets→ Dead blow mallets; Rawhide mallets

Masks or accessories→ Dust masks

Mechanical or ultrasonic metal cleaner→ Ultrasonic jewelry cleaners

Micrometers→ Digital micrometers

Mini pliers→ Bail shaping pliers

Miter saw→ Chop saws

Moisture meters→ Moisture monitors

Notebook computers→ Laptop computers

Paint brushes→ Artists' paint brushes; Stencil brushes

Paint sprayers→ Paint spray guns

Palette knives→ Artists' palette knives

Palettes for paint or ink mixing→ Artists' palettes

Paper drilling machines→ Paper drills

Personal computers

pH meters→ pH indicators

Photo print dryer→ Flashdryers

Photocopiers→ Thermofaxes

Picks→ Soldering picks

Pipettes for paint or dye mixing→ Paint mixing pipettes

Planes→ Bench planes; Hand planes; Smoothing planes

Pneumatic hammer→ Pneumatic chisels

Polariscopes→ Strain viewers

Potters wheels for hand made ceramics→ Electric potters wheels; Kick wheels

Power buffers→ Buffing tools

Power drills→ Cordless power drills; Diamond core drills

Power grinders→ Dressing wheels; Stone or metal grinders

Power nail guns→ Brad nailers; Pin nailers

Power planes→ Planing equipment

Power routers→ Heavy duty fixed base routers; Portable routers; Rabbeting routers

Power saws→ Circular saws; Panel saws; Table saws; Tile saws

Power scissors→ Disc cutters

Power screwguns→ Power screwdrivers

Power staple guns

Printing presses→ Manual production printing presses; Tabletop printing presses

Protective gloves→ Heat resistant gloves

Protractors

Pry bars

Punches or nail sets or drifts→ Center punches; Punch sets

Punching pliers→ Hole-punching pliers

Pyrometers→ Digital pyrometers

Rasps→ Riffler rasps; Steel rasps

Remote reading thermometers→ Non-contact thermometers

Respirators→ Dust and particulate respirators

Rotary paper or fabric cutter→ Fabric cutters; Rotary cutters

Rulers→ Graphic arts rulers

Safety glasses→ Protective safety glasses

Sand blasting machine→ Sandblasting guns

Saw guide→ Miter gauges

Sawing machines→ Compound miter saws

Saws→ Handsaws; Jewelers' saws; Trim saws

Scrapers for paint application→ Paint scrapers

Screwdrivers→ Phillips screwdrivers; Straight screwdrivers

Scribers→ Double-ended etching scribes; Scoring knives; Scribing tools

Scroll saw→ Scroll saws

Seam ripper→ Seam rippers

Sewing machines→ Machine quilters

Sewing needles→ Punch needles

Sharpening stones or tools or kits→ Tool sharpening stones

Silk screen arc lamps→ Silk screen exposure units

Silk screen screens→ Aluminum silkscreening screens

Silk screen squeegees→ Silk-screening squeegees

Silk screen vacuum printing frames→ Silk-screening roller frames

Spatulas→ Encaustic spatulas; Flexible ink spatulas

Specialty brushes→ Angled paint brushes; Round short handle brushes

Spirit burners→ Alcohol lamps

Squares→ Engineers squares

Stamping dies or punches→ Bead press machines

Stonemason chisel→ Stone carving chisels; Stone carving knives

Straight edges→ Precision straightedges

T squares→ Layout T-squares

Table looms→ Rigid heddle looms; Tabletop looms

Tablet computers

Templates→ Design templates; Woodworking templates

Tenoner or tenoning machine→ Mortise and tenon jigs

Thermal tape printers→ Heat transfer printers

Thermocouples→ Theromcouples

Tile cutter→ Tile cutters

Tongs→ Dipping tongs; Raku tongs

Triple beam balances→ Triple beam scales

Tumblers or polishers→ Finishing tumblers

Tweezers→ Cross-lock tweezers; Mashing tweezers; Solder tweezers

Utility knives→ Linoleum cutters

Viscosimeters→ Digital viscosometers

Warping machine→ Warping mills

Wet or dry combination vacuum cleaners→ Shop vacuums

Wire gauge→ Jewelers' wire gauges

Wood burning tools→ Woodburning tool sets

Wood chisels→ Wood carving chisels; Wood carving skews

Wood gouge→ Wood carving gouges

Wood mannequins→ Modeling stands

Wool comb→ Wool combs

Yarn assembly winder→ Conewinders

Artistic→ Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Realistic→ Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Enterprising→ Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Attention to Detail→ Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

Independence→ Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.

Achievement/Effort→ Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Innovation→ Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Persistence→ Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

Initiative→ Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Dependability→ Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

Integrity→ Job requires being honest and ethical.

Adaptability/Flexibility→ Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

Analytical Thinking→ Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.

Self Control→ Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

Stress Tolerance→ Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

Cooperation→ Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Achievement→ Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.

Independence→ Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.

Working Conditions→ Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.