Where a glass artist can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a glass artist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Glass artists create original artworks by assembling pieces of glass. They can be involved in restoration processes (such as those going on in cathedrals, churches, etc.) and can create accessoires, windows or decorations.
Also known as stained glass creator, stained glass restorer, stained glass designer and maker, stained glass artist & restorer, stained glass artist, stained glass artist & conservator, stained glass window maker, stained glass artist and restorer, stained glass conservator, stained glass artist and conservator, stained glass glazier, stained glass designer & maker.
Professionals 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: conceptual artist, 40%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A glass artist needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- create tube hinges handling and moving
- solder lead came joints constructing
- design stained glass communication, collaboration and creativity
- determine image composition communication, collaboration and creativity
- use color matching techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
- select filler metal constructing
- add colour constructing
- cut glass handling and moving
- develop design ideas cooperatively communication, collaboration and creativity
- develop design concept communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a glass artist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- digital artist 55% covered · difficulty 48.7
- conceptual artist 50% covered · difficulty 53.2
- video artist 50% covered · difficulty 53.2
- ceramicist 44% covered · difficulty 57.6
- drawing artist 39% covered · difficulty 61.9
- sound artist 39% covered · difficulty 61.9
- community artist 36% covered · difficulty 64.8
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Glass artist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a glass 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.