Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship

Overview

Arts administrators are the bridge between creative practitioners and audiences and between arts institutions and supportive stakeholders. In today’s digitally driven, highly competitive, and increasingly global economy, traditional institutions for visual and performing arts face critical sustainability challenges. Leaders in the arts must adopt the creative thinking and problem-solving skills of an entrepreneur in order to envision new models for creative practice, audience engagement, and funding.

The arts, and audience opportunities to experience them, are more dynamic and diverse than ever before, flourishing in major arts institutions as well as nonhierarchical organizations, from artist-run spaces and community organizations to annual festivals and pop-up exhibitions. It is time for a transformation in leadership training that matches the ingenuity of today’s most exciting experiments in music, dance, theatre, and the visual arts. Arts leaders must also be equipped with the administrative, analytical, and technological skill sets necessary to excel within the complex, interdependent arts ecosystem. This Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship is offered at Northeastern University.

Unique Features

• Course and project work embeds experiential opportunities to explore and demonstrate transformational arts management approaches.
• The Master of Science in Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship is conveniently offered 100% online, though students may also choose from a selection of on-campus electives.