Columbia College Chicago
Arts, Entertainment & Media Management
600 South Michigan Avenue
Arts, Entertainment & Media Management
Chicago, IL 60605
United States
Main Phone: 312.369.7652
Main E-Mail: knagy@colum.edu
Degree/Credential: Undergraduate (BA in Arts Management)
Web Site: http://www.colum.edu/aemm
Program Director: MFilice [link available to AAAE members only]
Program Goals and Objectives
The Arts, Entertainment and Media Management (AEMM) Department has a four-year program that was established to help meet the need for proficient arts administrators, managers and entrepreneurs. Successful arts management is critical to the continued vitality of modern cultural institutions, creative enterprises, and arts organizations. If the public is to benefit, skilled arts managers must facilitate the work of artists.
To achieve this end, capable managers combine aesthetic sensibilities and business acumen. Their financial, legal and organizational decisions help make it possible for artists to realize their vision and to share it with the public. In short, talented arts managers are partners in a collaborative process. The training of such partners is the goal of the AEMM Department.
AEMM students study the management methods and skills needed in today's cultural institutions and businesses. AEMM students learn to appreciate the value of the arts; to understand the economic, social and political climate in which they operate; and to anticipate the challenges and opportunities of the future.
Full and part-time faculty as well as visiting guest lecturers are professional practitioners from the arts, entertainment and media fields. The AEMM Department is staffed by full-time and part-time faculty who are working within the field that they teach.
Administration of the Program
- Chair - Philippe Ravanas
- Associate Chair - Mary Filice
- Academic Manager - Nissan Wasfie