Arts & Cultural Management

Pratt’s Master of Professional Studies in Arts & Cultural Management (ACMP) is designed to develop 21^st-century leaders able to help shape thriving cultures, creative economies, and an ecology of place. ACMP prepares participants to lead and manage in a changing cultural landscape that includes new challenges, new media, and new forms of cultural expression. Based on experiential learning, the program creates a collaborative learning community that sharpens critical thinking, deepens reflective practice, and develops strategic leadership skills. Classes are held in Manhattan; we offer a graduate degree in Arts & Cultural Management M.P.S.

The program encourages participants to consider their role in society and their respective communities as cultural arbiters and educators. This approach yields arts and cultural leaders who are equipped with the necessary theoretical, analytical and practical skills to respond creatively to the changing cultural, economic and social environments in which they work. These goals are accomplished by:

• Stretching each participant’s ability to deal with a wide range of critical artistic, institutional and business problems in practical and theoretical terms.
• Increasing the individual’s ability to manage complex, cross-disciplinary and competing problems and tensions that are inherent in arts and cultural business environments.
• Providing practical skills for negotiating organizational and artistic conflicts.
• Utilizing technology and new media to advance strategic goals.
• Broadening outlooks on the social, economics and political climate and the role of arts and cultural institutions in society.
• Sharpening personal capacities for understanding and solving organizational and human relations problems.
• Developing communications skills for the effective exchange of ideas and information.
• Sharpening the individual’s capacities to anticipate and effectively manage change fueled by external forces.
• Developing the leadership capabilities of each participant.
• Sharing ideas and experiences of a diverse group of promising arts and cultural managers.

Classes are offered on alternating weekends in Manhattan to accommodate working professionals and those who may wish to pursue full-time internships. By expanding the coursework to include nonprofit management practices, public policy and other contemporary issues, the ACMP stresses the importance of simultaneously developing business acumen and a sense of social responsibility.

The Program’s Structure

The Arts & Cultural Management Program (ACMP) is a two-year program. Students are required to take 42 credits to complete the program and receive a Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Arts & Cultural Management. The program has five required semesters – fall, spring, summer, fall, spring. The ACMP prepares participants for a rapidly shifting cultural, economic and social environment and political context. It provides the skills necessary to lead and manage in a changing world and an increasingly challenged ecosystem.

For INFORMATION ON ADMISSIONS to the Pratt Arts & Cultural Management program, click here and scroll down to the Arts & Cultural Management section within School of Art and Design.

Entrance Requirements

Applicants should demonstrate substantial experience in a related field or activity – social community engagement involving the arts. The required statement of purpose should reflect the applicant’s personal vision of how this program fits in with his/her personal and professional goals, including how the applicant hopes to use the skills he/she acquires in this program. The statement should be no more than 500 words or two pages. In some cases volunteer experience will be an acceptable demonstration of interest in the field. An interview (in person, by phone, or by email) with the program director is required for admission. A minimum 3.0 undergraduate cumulative index is required. For international students, a minimum Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of 600 is required.

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