University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Bolz Center for Arts Administration in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin School of Business has been building artful leaders for over fifty years. Named for the Bolz family in 1993, the generous gift by Robert, Anne, John, and Marian Bolz, and the Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Foundation helped establish the Bolz Center as the leader in arts administration education.
Detailed information about the Bolz Center can be found on our website.
Goals and Objectives
The Bolz Center is committed to training leaders who are curious, life-long learners. Through focused curriculum, discussion, research, and analysis of arts and cultural nonprofit management, the Bolz Center refines our collective understanding of what it means to manage and lead in this challenging, rewarding, and ever-changing field. The Center also serves as a model for exploration through consulting projects, national initiatives, and experiences that engage our alumni and colleagues around the world.
Curriculum
The Bolz Center’s Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership degree gives you the skills to become an innovative arts administrator, nonprofit executive, or social entrepreneur. The program supports two types of students: creative professionals looking to fuse their arts background with business and social enterprise training, and business professionals who seek arts-based coursework.
The MA is a 30-credit accelerated program that is completed in two semesters. The core curriculum includes courses in Arts Administration Seminar, Arts Entrepreneurship, Impact Consulting, Nonprofit Board Governance, Business Strategy, and Professional Leadership in the Arts.
Hands-on experience is integral to the Bolz Center Program with students engaging in Applied Learning Placements with local and campus arts and cultural organizations. These positions provide invaluable practical perspective within our professional curriculum.
Significant merit aid is available to offset the cost of tuition.
Upon graduation, students find successful employment in Marketing and Communications, Educational Outreach, Events Management, Consulting, and Fundraising & Development.
Visit our website website to learn more about the Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership Program.
Admissions
Prospective candidates apply directly through the Wisconsin School of Business Specialized Master’s Program Office and indicate Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership as their specialization of choice. Detailed admissions requirements can be found on our website .
University of Wisconsin-Madison
FACULTY
Russell Coff
Rebecca Buckman
Sarah Marty
John Surdyk
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 608-263-4161
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