Arts Management
BA • Minor
Arts Management
The Arts Management BA empowers creative leaders.
What is Arts Management?
Arts managers play critical roles in supporting and sustaining artists, events, and organizations devoted to creative expression.
We equip arts management graduates with the knowledge, skills, experience, and confidence to pursue advanced study in arts management or to flourish in careers within the arts, entertainment, and other creative industries.
Make Art Happen
The Arts Management BA program provides training for anyone passionate about sharing the arts with the world. Students have a broad range of interests but share the desire to make art happen.
If you envision a career in the arts and entertainment industries, empowering artists, and facilitating arts presentation, then this program is right for you.
Alumni pursue a wide variety of careers across creative entities, including dance and theater companies, symphony orchestras and opera houses, galleries and museums, presenting and community arts centers, festival and concert venues, record labels, and artist management agencies.
A Curriculum With Room to Explore
You’ll have the space and freedom to select your focus and acquire real-world experience. The curriculum provides a broad introduction to business models, managerial roles, and practices common to a range of arts enterprises in the nonprofit and commercial sectors. Core courses complement upper-level electives, internships, and independent study opportunities to deepen your understanding and develop relevant skills as you put knowledge into practice. Many arts management students pursue double or dual majors.
Hands-On Preparation
We emphasize collaborating, mixing disciplines, and gaining skills through a variety of experiences to mimic the industry environments that lie ahead. We build hands-on learning into the program through projects, fieldwork, and at least one required internship.
Accomplished Faculty
Our diverse and accomplished faculty represent a range of industry experience and expertise including non-profit performing arts management and entrepreneurship, arts in education, art law, and museology.
A Collaborative Campus
Our campus is home to four conservatories that serve as a professional training ground for artists in the visual, performing, and theatre arts. The arts scene here always buzzes with performances and creatives looking to collaborate. You’ll find opportunities right on campus to put your education into action.
So Close to NYC
Our Westchester County location is flush with opportunities for internships and career experiences in the surrounding area or in New York City—only a short commute or train ride away.
Contact Us
To learn more, reach out to Department Chair Maria Guralnik with questions or to request a consultation. You can also email the department.
class highlights
Museum Visitor Research
Evaluating visitor experiences at New York City's New Museum.
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Visual Arts Collaboration
Exhibition Practice and Management class and Visual Arts MFA students.
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The 2023 Startup Competition Awards $5,000 in Prizes
The Economics Program’s Shark Tank-style event invites entrepreneurs to judge the inventive ideas of students from all majors.
Symara Sarai ’19 Named Outstanding Breakout Choreographer
The Bessie Award category honors an artist who has made an exceptional leap in their career.
Crossover Goals: Pollinator Garden Signage
The interpretive signs in the Purchase Native Pollinator Garden resulted from collaboration between environmental studies, arts management, and graphic design.
