ARTS MANAGEMENT

If you're interested in combining a passion for the arts with business savvy, consider Sweet Briar's program in arts management.

Among the program's greatest strengths: it provides solid theoretical knowledge along with practical experience in arts management and museum studies within the context of a liberal arts education.

Careers in arts management uniquely blend scholarship, leadership, education of the public, promotion, and development.

The financing, marketing, and management of arts institutions constitute a vital growth industry. Sweet Briar women bring an education that positions them to become leaders in the field.


 

FACULTY

Rebecca Massie Lane, Director of College Galleries

Christian Carr, Assistant Professor of Arts Management

 

 

THE ARTS MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE

Required:
ARMG 105 (4) – The Arts Organization APLOMB: Audience, Program, Leadership, Outreach, Mission, Balance
ARMG 141 (1) – Arts Management Practicum I
IART 101 (1) – Fine Arts Workshop

Choose 1 of the following courses:
ARMG 341 (3) – Arts Management Practicum III
ARMG 377 (3) – Internship

Choose 1 of the following courses:
ARMG 202 (3) – Curating, Collecting and Connoisseurship: Behind the Ropes at Sweet Briar Museum
ARMG 204 (3) – The Director of the Arts Organization
ARMG 209 (3) – The Museum, Theory and Practice

And choose 3 (9 semester hours) of the following courses with guidance from the program director:
ANTH 114 (3) – Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 115 (3) – Archaeological Field Experience
ANTH 224 (3) – Ethnography
ANTH 281 (3) – Visual Anthropology
ANTH 334 (3) – Gifts and Commodities: The Construction of Value in Social Life
ARTS 213 (3) – Digital Design I
ARTS 313 (3) – Digital Design II
BIOL 218 (3) – Field Natural History
BUSN 127 (3) – Financial Accounting
BUSN 131 (3) – Fundamentals of Management
BUSN 150 (3) – Fundamentals of Marketing
BUSN 351 (3) – Marketing Research
DANC 341 (3) – Methods of Teaching Creative Movement and Dance
EDUC 107 (3) – Early Childhood Education: Theory and Practice
EDUC 211 (3) – The Exceptional Learner
ENGL 228 (3) – The Art of the Essay
HIST 312 (3) – Virginia: History and Memory
MATH 106 (3) – Statistical Reasoning
PHIL 224 (3) – Ethics: Theories and Application
SOCI 451 (3) – Research Methods
THTR 102 (3) – Public Speaking
THTR 152 (3) – Interpersonal Communication
THTR 202 (3) – Business and Professional Speaking
THTR 350 (3) – Group and Organizational Communication

Gwen McKinney '03 Curates Exhibit

Gwen talks about her exhibit on SBTV
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last updated December 11, 2003