Also called a craftsman, is a skilled workman, who uses tools and/or machinery in his particular craft.
Curator
A curator's role will encompass; collecting objects or some historic item; making provision for the effective preservation, conservation, interpretation, documentation and cataloging, research and display; and to make them or it, available to the public.
Docent
The word comes from the Latin docere, meaning to teach.
Docents are educators, trained to further public's understanding of the cultural and historical collections or item. In many cases, docents, in addition to their main prescribed function as guides; also conduct research utilizing the institution's facilities.
literati
Shih-ta-fa bua Scholar Gentleman - the wen-jen artist, sincere ' man of letters'.
" Devoid of commercial intent, their creations should emanate from the deepest recesses of self, with an uncompromising conviction."
Fundamental criteria to qualify as literati, being:
Scholarship
Creative artistic individuality and later
Official status being superseded by eremitism ( remaining aloof )
In ancient China, apprenticeships were the only tutorial system available, which created a close relationship, between the teacher, student and peers.
The wen-jen artist must have / be:
Moral integrity
Learned
travelled
Traditional respect
Subtle symbolic expression
Understanding of the importance of artistic material & tools
understanding of the inter-relationship between calligraphy & creations