Gain skills to lead in the arts, creative, and social sectors

Learn to be an innovative arts administrator, nonprofit executive, or social entrepreneur with the Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership Program.

You gain expertise with a business-focused curriculum while benefitting from hands-on learning, project work, and field experiences.

  • Build on your creative skills and background to make a difference and build a career.
  • Develop a portfolio of strategic abilities rooted in business practice.
  • Complete a paid internship or receive seed funding for your start-up project.

The arts and creative enterprise leadership master’s program is part of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration—one of the only arts-focused programs within a U.S. business school, giving you an edge as a strategic leader.

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Be the Strategic Leader the Arts and Social Sectors Need

The Bolz Center’s arts and creative enterprise leadership master’s degree provides access to creative professionals to fuse their arts training with business and social enterprise curriculum, and equal access to business professionals who want arts-based coursework and social sector leadership perspectives on business development.

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Sherry Wagner-Henry

Podcast: Program Overview

Join us as Sherry Wagner-Henry, former director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, describes the MA in Arts and Creative Leadership and the various career paths open to graduates.

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