Arts Management Essentials: Leading Successful Art Organisations
Duration: Feb 05 – Mar 25, 2024
Fee: 378€ Max seats: 32
Enrol before: Feb 1, 2024
Live sessions: 2 hrs/week
The course ‘Arts Management Essentials: Leading Successful Art Organisations’ will introduce you to the fundamental managerial and administrative aspects of running an art organization, with a particular focus on large institutions like art museums. By offering a comprehensive insight into how these entities are structured, planned, and efficiently operated, this course empowers you with the essential knowledge and skills to confidently launch your career in arts and cultural management.
Over 8 weeks, we will discover the major functions, operations, and challenges of contemporary art organizations. Each session is tailored to equip you with valuable knowledge and practical skills, covering various facets of arts management:
What You Will Learn:
- Strategy & Planning: the role of art managers in the success of art organization
- Structures & Processes: what tools are needed to operate arts organizations
- Human Resources: how to run human-centered organizations
- Marketing: how to serve and reach art audiences
- Art Production and Funding: who the key partners, funders and collaborators are
By adopting a practical approach, you’ll be provided with planning templates, canvases, or spreadsheets that offer direct support for your day-to-day tasks. Furthermore, you’ll acquire analytical methods and models to assess what works and what doesn’t, identify areas for improvement, and effectively advance an arts organization’s mission and goals.
The live classes will provide a dynamic learning experience, combining lectures, group discussions, and hands-on exercises. They will be enriched with a wide range of insightful examples and case studies, as well as voluntary assignments. By the end of this course, you will be empowered with the knowledge and tools necessary to embark on a career in arts and cultural management.