Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a community artist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a community artist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Community artists research, plan, organise and lead artistic activities for people brought together by a shared interest, capacity, environment or condition. They manage and coordinate creative projects with local groups and individuals to foster their artistic creativity and improve their quality of life. Community artists make the arts accessible to the community they work for, and provide opportunities for participants to shape their artistic programme.

Also known as community & participatory artist, dance leader, hospital clown, artist & community facilitator, community arts facilitator, community arts worker, community arts practitioner, artist in mediation, community dance leader, community dance practitioner, community dance artist, community arts project leader.

Professionals 45 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: glass artist, 36%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
glass artist 36% covered conceptual artist 36% covered performance artist 34% covered street artist 32% covered drawing artist 31% covered community artist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from community artist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a community artist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A community artist needs 29 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • assess community arts programme resources information skills
  • assess your competencies in leading community arts management skills
  • collaborate with stakeholders in leading community arts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop artistic coaching programme communication, collaboration and creativity
  • research your target community information skills
  • direct community arts activities management skills
  • manage participants' expectations in arts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • record lessons learnt from your sessions information skills
  • assess data collected to improve community arts programme information skills
  • communicate with target community communication, collaboration and creativity
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Community artist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a community artist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.