AU’s MA in Arts Management will prepare you for prominent management roles at the world’s best arts organizations by providing the managerial, ethical, financial, marketing, fundraising, and communication skills you need to successfully run an arts organization. While mastering the business side of the visual and performing arts, you will learn to make art happen by developing and supporting artists, artistic communities, and arts institutions.
Our graduates are business-savvy arts...
When creative people and projects find their voice, thrill their audiences, transform their communities, and grow their resources, they’ve been #ArtsManaged. For more than 45 years, American University’s master’s and certificate programs in Arts Management have been finding and fostering the extraordinary people who forge these connections. Learning and leading at the intersection of theory and action, strategy and tactics, our faculty, students, alumni, and professional network are...
As the fields of art, design and other creative industries shifts, the Mike Curb MA in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership empowers students to create the creative opportunities of the future that connect art and design to society. The program has a particular emphasis on impact and place, looking at how art practice intersects with the social, political, economic, and other structures that shape communities. This cross disciplinary, collaborative program merges theory and practice in...
MA
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arts Management is the work required to run a non-profit arts organization, such as a museum, performing arts center, theater, pop-up gallery, public art project and more. We don’t make the art, we present it! Arts managers perform behind the scenes work including marketing, fundraising, community outreach, grantwriting, planning, and programming. This work can include curating, creating education programs, planning festivals, and promoting the work of artists and musicians or projects...
Certificate
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Core Certificate is designed for emerging artists and arts managers, offering a mix of fundamentals and electives. This certificate earned by successfully completing four of our online courses.
Our Arts Management Certificates are 100% online and have NO residency or travel requirement, saving you travel, time, and money, and making it possible for you to take our classes anywhere that you have internet access.
Courses can be taken for credit or as noncredit, depending on your...
Certificate
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Welcome to the nation's only online bachelor's degree with a focus in arts management. The Arts Extension Service is the nation’s leading educator in Arts Management programs that suit your unique needs.
Custom-built for arts managers, artists, civic leaders and those just entering the field, this degree will help you advance your career in non-profit arts administration, gallery management, or as the owner/manager of an arts organization, program or business.
And best of all, our...
BA
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Professional Certificate was created for emerging artists and arts managers, and offers a mix of fundamental classes and advanced electives. Earn this certificate by completing eight of our online courses.
Our Arts Management Certificates are 100% online and have NO residency or travel requirement, saving you travel, time, and money, and making it possible for you to take our classes anywhere that you have internet access.
Courses can be taken for credit or as noncredit, depending...
Certificate
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arts Management is about performing the behind-the-scenes work required to run arts organizations, accelerate an independent artist career, and stay tuned in to the ever-changing trends in a highly diverse sector.
The Arts Management Certificate can help make you stand out to potential employers and arts institutions that are looking to hire a well-rounded graduate. For students interested in art history, art, music, dance, film, writing, or theater, an Arts Management Certificate...
Certificate
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Leadership Certificate is intended for established artists and managers, with two compulsory courses in Cultural Equity and Cultural Policy & Advocacy, and two electives – all from our selection of advanced courses.
The BFA in Theatre Management is designed for students pursuing professional careers as stage and production managers for theatres, concert venues, theme parks, and other related fields.
