13 MA Programs in Arts Management in North America for 2024

MA Programs in Arts Management in North America for 2024Filter
    • Rock Hill, USA

    Part time

    2 years

    Distance Learning

    English

    Winthrop University's Master of Arts in Arts Administration combines current theory, academic research and applied practice to develop effective leaders who can work with skill, creative initiative and integrity in nonprofit arts environments. Learn best practices in governance, community engagement, audience development, financial management and law pertaining to nonprofit arts.

    • Bloomington, USA

    Full time

    2 years

    On-Campus

    English

    It takes more than passion to successfully lead an arts organization. Future arts administrators need business acumen, marketing expertise, and management skills to tackle the art world's greatest challenges. As an MAAA student, you’ll learn from top scholars in arts management and cultural policy. In addition to being committed educators, O'Neill faculty members are highly regarded by their peers in the arts management industry and at academic institutions across the country. Combining faculty and practical expertise with the astonishing variety of cultural offerings on campus and in Bloomington, students can look forward to an intellectually and culturally stimulating experience in the study and practice of arts management, while preparing themselves for leadership in the arts in the decades ahead.

    • Washington, USA

    Full time

    2 years

    On-Campus

    English

    As a passionate and purpose-driven arts manager, you help artists find their voice, audiences find their bliss, organizations attract and animate their funding, and communities build thriving and creative places to live, learn, and work. AU’s Arts Management Program will prepare you to make a positive difference in the visual, performing, media, community, online, or emerging arts, and position you to change the art world for the better. Learn and work in the global cultural hub of Washington, DC, alongside business-savvy arts leaders, a vibrant and diverse network of global professionals, and world-respected and innovative faculty. Explore the powerful intersection of research and professional practice through a curriculum that blends them both with hands-on work experiences and real-world insights of alumni and other leading professionals.

    • Medford, USA

    Full time

    2 years

    On-Campus

    English

    Offered by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art is a rigorous interdisciplinary program that prepares graduate students for a career as professional artists grounded in artistic innovation and creativity.

    • Claremont, USA

    Full time, Part time

    On-Campus

    A program for students with a strong background in the arts or humanities who want to combine management, policy, and decision-making training with advanced study in the humanities.

    • Baltimore, USA

    On-Campus

    English

    The M.A. in Arts Administration is a graduate program designed for busy people who want to: learn from national arts leaders develop a strong, national network be inspired by a community of mentors and peers enhance their careers enjoy the flexibility to live and learn from anywhere in the world

    • New York, USA

    Full time, Part time

    On-Campus

    English

    Baruch's MA in Arts Administration program trains the next generation of leaders in arts and culture, the Baruch MA in Arts Administration prepares students for leadership as activists, educators, and managers to ensure a bright future for the wide range of public, private, and non-profit art institutions in our field.

    • Buffalo, USA

    On-Campus

    English

    Arts managers matter because they are the ultimate mediators between the arts and its best audience. Arts leaders must negotiate the increasingly complex cultural, socioeconomic, legal, and political systems that challenge sustainable arts environments. The University at Buffalo's MA in Arts Management prepares you to face these challenges. Through its unique blend of critical inquiry, analysis, and experiential learning, the program builds your capacity to identify and solve the problems inherent in the areas of arts management, production, and cultural policymaking.

    • Florence, USA

    English

    The Master of Arts is a 36-hour program that enables students to read and interpret biblical texts in their original languages. Students will engage in rigorous academic research working from relevant primary and secondary sources that address specific issues in the field of biblical studies. The MA concludes with a thesis.

    • Philadelphia, USA

    Full time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    Moore’s Socially Engaged Arts degree programs bring together artists and organizers in the same space to critically and pragmatically engage in the discourses and practices concerned with art’s relationship to place, collaboration, ethics, material, and interdisciplinary research.

    • Seattle, USA

    English

    The Master of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership (MFAL) at Seattle University—the first program of its kind on the West Coast—brings together our nationally-renowned faculty in arts leadership with the essential business, management, advocacy, and community engagement skills necessary for you to lead in the arts sector. With our low student-to-faculty ratio and the program’s cohort approach, you will benefit from direct access to faculty and develop lifelong relationships and support networks. In the thriving, arts-dense Seattle region, you will gain the theoretical and practical experience necessary to successfully compete for arts leadership positions nationally and internationally. You will learn alongside a cohort from various backgrounds including community art practitioners, curators, designers, development managers, education directors, public artists, and theater directors.

    • New York, USA

    Full time, Part time

    2 years

    On-Campus

    English

    Prepare for leadership positions with arts institutions – both non-profit and for-profit. Learn new approaches for encouraging art access and participation, acquire business skills through courses at the NYU Stern School of Business or the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and gain hands-on experience through the extensive network of arts organizations in New York City.

    • New York, USA

    Full time

    2 years

    On-Campus

    English

    The Master of Arts in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at The New School’s College of Performing Arts is one of the first graduate programs designed specifically to help performers gain the critical skill set they need to become recognized artistic leaders—onstage and beyond.