AEMM Graduate Program

Introduction

The Arts, Entertainment and Media Management (AEMM) Graduate Program was established in 1982 to help meet the need for proficient arts administrators, managers, and entrepreneurs. The AEMM department currently offers a Master of Arts Management (MAM) degree.

Successful arts management is critical to the continued vitality of modern cultural institutions, creative enterprises, and arts organizations. If the public is to benefit, skilled arts managers must facilitate the work of artists. To achieve this, capable managers combine aesthetic sensibilities and business acumen. Their financial, legal, and organizational decisions help make it possible for artists to realize their vision and to share it with the public. In short, talented arts managers are partners in a collaborative process.

The training of such partners is the goal of the AEMM Graduate Program.

The AEMM Graduate Program offers the opportunity to specialize in Live & Performing Arts Management, Music Business Management, Visual Arts Management, Media Management, Arts in Youth and Community Development, and Arts Entrepreneurship. Each area of interest combines a strong conceptual emphasis with practical professional education.

AEMM graduate students learn the management methods and skills needed to function effectively in the increasingly complex environment of today’s cultural institutions, community organizations, and arts based businesses. AEMM graduate students also learn to appreciate the value of the arts; to understand the economic, social, and political climate in which they operate; and to anticipate the challenges and opportunities of the future.

Philippe Ravanas, Chair
Mary Filice, Associate Chair
Dawn Larsen, Director of Graduate Studies

The Curriculum
The core curriculum in business and arts management provides students with a foundation for career choices in the arts, entertainment and media fields. Both profit-making and non-profit sectors are covered. Along with the essential study of financial, legal, marketing, organizational and strategic concepts in these fields, the curriculum offers students flexibility in choosing elective courses tailored to their specialty interests. The subjects of these electives involve skills needed for leadership positions in music promotion and distribution, live entertainment and the performing arts, traditional and new media, museums and galleries, and community-based youth arts organizations. Arts entrepreneurs who wish to start businesses are able to select courses that help conceive and launch such ventures.

For detailed curriculum and course information click on the links to Graduate Curriculum Requirements & Two-Year Plan for a Full-Time Student and Graduate Course Descriptions.

Application Deadline: Friday, January 14th, 2011

From our students

“Professors really care about students and want them to succeed in school and in the future.”

“Good combination of art and business.”

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