The Arts Management minor prepares students through an interdisciplinary curriculum in the arts and business to pursue careers in arts-related nonprofits and commercial enterprises. By learning how to manage organizations such as galleries, museums, music ensembles, and theatre companies, and how to connect artists with audiences, students acquire the skills to manage institutions vital to sustaining artistic expression. Students completing the minor graduate ready to support artists, engage audiences, and promote the missions of art institutions to educate and inspire.

Learning Aims:

Students with an arts management minor will demonstrate:

• An understanding of artistic, political, economic, contemporary, historical, and global environments in which arts organizations exist.  
• An understanding of the practical managerial functions in arts institutions, including financial management, marketing, advocacy, public policy, fundraising and resource development, grantsmanship, and legal issues pertaining to the arts.  
• The ability to plan for and think strategically about the basic organizational components of a nonprofit arts organization, including the legal responsibilities of a nonprofit board of directors, board and staff roles and relationships, leadership styles, ethics and integrity, the stewardship of an organization and its resources, equity and inclusion, and constituent and audience development.
• An understanding of how to successfully manage the relationships among visual and performing arts professionals, arts organizations, and the communities in which they exist.
• An understanding of the responsibilities that nonprofit arts organizations have to their communities, including the promotion of cultural awareness, community-building, and the framing of public identity.