Arts Administration and Policy - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Arts Administration and Policy from School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a Campus Master Arts Management degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. In a rapidly changing and globalizing society, arts organizations are being called on to respond to new art forms and ideas, audiences, ethical challenges, and political and economic difficulties. The Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Policy [MAAAP] at SAIC is an interdisciplinary program that invites extended and focused theoretical and practical explorations into culture, policy, institutions, and their practice. SAIC's MAAAP program provides a teaching and learning environment in which the role of the administrator and manager is understood as critically engaged and proactive. Our approach studies the role that institutions and policies play in shaping culture, through a grounded analysis of concrete practices and examples. The MAAAP program strongly encourages students to think beyond existing institutional and policy structures and assumptions, and to work flexibly in a dynamic cultural and institutional landscape. The program emanates from a conviction that neither the short-term interests of policymakers nor the theoretical debates of the academy should circumscribe cultural policy studies, and that neither should exist absent from considerations of and interaction with artistic practice and public debate. SAIC's MAAAP program strongly encourages interaction with current debates and professional situations. Students plan their studies around their research needs that culminate in the Thesis. Interactions and practical experiences are actively encouraged, and are facilitated through the Arts Administration Fieldwork and Internship program, the International Field Study class, and the Departmental Colloquium with a series of invited, distinguished guest lecturers. View more details on School of the Art Institute of Chicago . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Arts Management courses.