Why Study Arts Administration?
What kinds of jobs do M.A.A.A. graduates have?
95% of our alumnae/i over the past decade are currently working in the arts. Our graduates are planning, facilitating, raising money, evaluating, and leading; designing and opening new facilities; marketing; educating students of all ages; consulting in areas such as audience building, strategic planning, and financial development; establishing their own entrepreneurial work and opening new arts organizations; working for private foundations and city governments; developing and managing public art programs and arts advocacy organizations; and exploring arts research. They are developing social justice reforms through arts activism. They are working in all art forms and in all areas of the country.
Alumnae/i from the M.A. in Arts Administration program have gone on to work at:
- Alphawood Foundation
- American Blues Theatre
- American Conservatory Theatre
- American Dance Festival
- American Visionary Art Museum
- Americans for the Arts
- Annenberg Center for the Arts
- Arts for LA
- Blue Man Group
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- California Shakespeare Theatre
- Carmel Symphony Orchestra
- Charlottesville Ballet
- College of the Bahamas
- Dance Canvas
- Eastman School of Music
- Harvard Library
- Isabella Steward Gardner Museum
- Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Meow Wolf
- Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
- Mid Atlantic Youth Ballet
- National Dance Education Association
- New England Foundation for the Arts
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Phoenix Center for the Arts
- Roundabout Theatre Company
- Seattle Opera
- Smithsonian Institution
- University of Chicago
- Visual Arts Center of Richmond
- Youth Choral Theatre of Chicago
Visit the M.A. in Arts Administration program homepage for more information.