Internships
Students matriculating in the Arts Administration degree program are required to have some direct work experience in arts organizations prior to degree conferral. There are two components to the internship course. Through the Internship I Course (MET AR 802), students develop their professional awareness and capacities in order to obtain an internship. By researching the arts employment landscape, honing their interviewing skills, conducting a job search, and working with a network of organizations and alumni, students prepare to secure an appropriate placement. Students must have completed 24 credits prior to taking Internship II (MET AR 803), which takes place alongside the internship during the semester following AR 802. Students are expected to complete a total of 150 hours of work with the host agency, generally within a single semester.
Students with four or more years of full-time, paid, professional arts organization work experience may waive the internship requirement with the program director’s written consent. To inquire about the waiver procedure please contact the program. If the internship is waived, students must take an alternative elective. Students are encouraged to use their electives to broaden their understanding of arts administration. One elective course may be taken from other departments within the University, after approval from the student’s adviser. Courses such as Museums and Historical Agency, offered by the Department of Art History (Museum Studies) in the graduate division of the College of Arts & Sciences, and Evaluating and Developing Markets for Cultural Tourism, offered by MET College, may be of particular interest.
Students with at least two years of full-time professional arts administration work experience can substitute Advanced Management and Consulting for Arts Organizations (MET AR 804) for the internship with written consent from their advisor and permission from course instructors.
Internship Organizations Have Included:
- ACME Fine Art
- Entertainment Community Fund (The Actors Fund)
- Arena Stage
- Artfacts
- Artisan’s Asylum, Inc.
- Artists for Humanity
- ARTMORPHEUS
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston
- ArtsBoston
- Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
- Berklee College of Music
- Boch Center
- Boston Ballet
- Boston Center for the Arts
- Boston Chamber Music Society
- Boston Children’s Museum
- Boston Conservatory at Berklee
- Boston Landmarks Orchestra
- Boston Lyric Opera
- Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture, and Special Events
- Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- BreakThru Radio
- Broadway in Boston
- The Broadway League
- BU Tanglewood Institute
- Cambridge Arts Council
- Celebrity Series of Boston
- Christie’s Auction House
- Clark Art Institute
- Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
- Community Center Music of Boston
- Copley Society of Art
- Creative Time
- Currier Museum of Art
- The Dali Museum
- Danforth Art Museum
- English National Ballet
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Glimmerglass Opera
- Handel and Haydn Society
- Harvard University Art Museums
- Huntington Theater Company
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
- Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- The Kurland Agency
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Massachusetts Cultural Council
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- MASSCreative
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Metropolitan Opera
- MIT List Visual Arts Center
- Musée du Louvre
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- The Museum of Modern Art
- The Music Hall, Portsmouth
- National Centre for the Performing Arts, China
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Museum of Ghana
- National Portrait Gallery
- Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment
- New England Foundation for the Arts
- New England Philharmonic
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Portland Museum of Art
- Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
- Red Light Management
- Rolling Stone
- Rose Art Museum
- Silk Road Project
- Skinner Auctions
- Smithsonian Institution
- Sony Music Entertainment
- Sotheby’s
- SpeakEasy Stage Company
- Strawbery Banke Museum
- The Theater Offensive
- TransCultural Exchange
- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
- Underground Railway Theater
- Urbanity Dance
- VIA Art Fund
- Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- Williamstown Theatre Festival
- Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
- Worcester Art Museum