"Exploring Careers" is a career education resource program, published in fifteen separate booklets, for junior high school-age students. It provides information about the world of work and offers its readers a way of learning about themselves and relating that information to career choices. The publications aim to build career awareness by means of occupational narratives, evaluative questions, activities, and career games grouped in fourteen occupational clusters. This fourteenth of the series presents an overview of jobs in the fields of the performing arts, design, and communications. Narrative accounts focus on an architect, a newspaper reporter, and a street musician, describing what they do and how they prepared for their careers. Exploring sections relate skills needed for these occupations to students' personal characteristics, and learning activities such as art projects, model building, and entering talent shows are suggested. A Job Facts section lists nature and places of work, training and qualifications, and other information for nineteen occupations, grouped in occupational clusters of performing artists, design, and communications occupations. ("Exploring Careers" is also available in a single volume of fifteen chapters.) (KC)