Practicum
Students adding a concentration to the MS in Arts and Cultural Management are required to demonstrate their competence through direct work experience in the sector or a practical project in collaboration with a cultural organization. This is achieved through the addition of MET AR 795 Arts and Cultural Management Practicum or MET AR 796 Advanced Management Consulting for Arts and Cultural Organizations to their curriculum.
The requirements of MET AR 795 can be satisfied through an internship with a cultural organization, or through the realization of a concrete project undertaken in collaboration with a cultural organization. Projects must be proposed and approved prior to enrolling in the practicum. Students are required to complete a total of 200 hours of work in either an internship or a project. This can be accomplished in a single term by taking the practicum as a 4-unit course, or over the course of two terms by taking the practicum as a 2-unit course in each term.
Collaborating 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