Arts and Cultural Management, MPS

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Arts and Cultural Management, MPS

Be an innovator in managing creative enterprise in the arts, entertainment, communication, and culture. Explore the changing role of arts and cultural leaders and institutions, as well as the new media and methods that transform the way we design and manage cultural experience and engagement.

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Type: Graduate, MPS
Start Term: Fall Only
Credits: 42
Duration: 5 Semesters
Courses: Plan of Study
School and Department: School of Art,
Creative Enterprise Leadership

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Advance your career with an M.P.S. in Arts & Cultural Management at Pratt Institute

Pioneer new media projects, manage entertainment enterprises, or create unforgettable experiences with diverse audiences. Pratt Institute’s M.P.S. in Arts & Cultural Management will prepare you for leadership and management roles in arts, entertainment, communication, and culture.

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Why Choose Pratt’s Arts & Cultural Management Program?

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Designed to help you navigate a changing world and build a career that uses the power of culture to create change, Arts & Cultural Management (ACM) is the next step in developing a career in the business of culture.

Use multidisciplinary approaches to lead and manage creative enterprises in the arts, entertainment, communication, and culture. Your fellow students come from backgrounds including: business, communication, culinary arts, hospitality, events management, advertising, entertainment, animation, theater, music, literary, visual and performing arts, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and design. What you have in common is the desire to start, lead, and manage organizations that will take on critical challenges like climate disruption and inequity. Culture and the creative sectors can drive transformation and create sustainable and balanced growth.

Our Faculty

Xue Bai

Assistant Chairperson; Visiting Assistant Professor

School of Art

Creative Enterprise Leadership
Mary McBride

Chairperson

School of Art

Creative Enterprise Leadership
Richard Green

Professor

School of Art

Creative Enterprise Leadership
Denise Tahara

Adjunct Associate Professor

School of Art

Creative Enterprise Leadership
Christopher Shrum

Professor

School of Art

Creative Enterprise Leadership

A Pathway to Career Development, Influence, and Leadership

Pratt’s Arts & Cultural Management program prepares you to take the next step in a career that aligns your creativity with your ability to lead and manage strategically and sustainably. ACM graduates build careers across emerging creative economies including arts, entertainment, and media. Pratt’s long history of arts and cultural leadership across the world assures access to a network of faculty dedicated to your success, creative industry leaders, and alumni willing to help and mentor.

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Pratt Makes an Investment in You: Scholarships & Support

We offer generous scholarship and support for those who want to leverage the power of culture and creativity to lead.

All applicants are considered for merit scholarships during review of applications; a separate scholarship application is not required. For students in good academic standing (i.e., if the student maintains a minimum 3.0 GPA), merit scholarships are automatically renewed for each semester.

Other Support

Support for research-based scholarly and/or creative projects that enhance students’ professional development—individually or through small student teams—are available through the Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF).

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From the Catalog

THE PROGRAM’S STRUCTURE

The ACM program is one of the Creative Enterprise Leadership international graduate programs. It is designed for those who intend to design and manage cultural experience and engagement. It is a two-year, cohort-based program. Participants are required to take 42 credits to complete the program and receive a master of professional studies (MPS) in Arts and Cultural Management. The program has five required semesters—fall, spring, summer, fall, spring. Each semester is divided into two terms and participants enroll in two courses per term, with the exception of semesters three and five. Courses are taken in order as listed in the program curriculum. Two five-day intensives—at the beginning and in the middle of the program—provide the opportunity for several brief, intensive courses, including behavioral simulation and negotiating modules. All course work is done in teams.

Coursework is focused on real world strategic challenges for all enterprise activity including the inequity and climate challenges identified in the Global Goals. Particular focus is on the role of cultural leaders on shaping enterprise strategies which connect the aims of culture, community and commerce and create economic value by advancing the well being of human communities and biosystems.

Class attendance in every session is critical, since each alternating weekend of classes is one-tenth of the entire course. Students are required to complete the 42-credits of the program in sequence to graduate.

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Apply theory to practice to develop and sustain thriving cultures and create prosperity.
Demonstrate the power of collaborative practice to foster creative expression, build creative community and shape a commerce of ideas, artifacts, images, and experiences.
Evidence the value of cultural leadership and the importance of cultural capital in shaping the 21st century.

Advance your career with an M.P.S. in Arts & Cultural Management at Pratt Institute

Why Choose Pratt’s Arts & Cultural Management Program?

Our Faculty

A Pathway to Career Development, Influence, and Leadership

Pratt Makes an Investment in You: Scholarships & Support

Other Support

Ready for More?

From the Catalog

Overview

Learning Outcomes

Plan of Study

School of Art

Creative Enterprise Leadership