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Arts Admin Career Services

ARTS ADMINISTRATION Career Services

Join the UNCG Arts Administration LinkedIn Group. Available to any UNCG alumni (regardless of what you studied at UNCG) working in arts administration and related fields and all UNCG Arts Administration alumni (majors and minors). 

  • Majoring in arts administration is not required for studying arts administration or arts management at the graduate level. In fact, few students applying for graduate school in arts management will have undergraduate degrees in arts administration…because there aren’t very many – UNCG is one of only a handful of full degree programs in Arts Administration for undergraduates! 
  • List of Arts Administration Graduate Programs available on ArtsAdministration.org 
  • List of Museum Studies programs from the American Association of Museums. 
  • Master’s in History with Museum Studies Concentration from UNCG Department of History 

  • Helpful guide: Cover Letter Handbook from University of Texas College of Fine Arts.pdf
  • Video from Manhattan Theatre Club on writing cover letters for arts management. 
  • Here’s a Twitter thread on resumes and cover letters from Aubrey Bergauer, former Executive Director of the California Symphony, and a respected arts leader. 
  • Here are tips on writing cover letters from Hannah Grannemann, Director of UNCG’s Arts Administration Program:  
  • You don’t need to have 100% of the qualifications for the position to apply. Apply for jobs where you have about 70% or more of the qualifications. The worst that can happen is that you don’t move forward in the process! 
  • Get in the mindset that you are applying for the job to help THEM. It is not about you and meeting your goals. Well, it’s a little about you. A little. No more than 4 sentences about your motivation, purpose, career path, skills development, goals, etc. Just enough to show that you are committed to the field you are pursuing – and therefore will be committed to the organization. 
  • Your resume and cover letter reinforce each other. Don’t repeat your resume, but don’t leave it up to the reader to understand how your skills and experience are relevant. Connect the dots for them. 
  • DIRECTLY address as many of the qualifications listed in the job description, preferably with a very short description of how you’ve done that part of the job before. If you haven’t done that part of the job before, but you have done something similar, describe that and how it’s *almost* the same thing. If you haven’t done a major part of the job, you can describe briefly why you are confident that you can do the job. 
  • One page should be enough for a student or graduating student. Be succinct.  
  • How Theatre skills translate into other sectors 

Arts Administration

(List of organizations/businesses where Arts Admin majors have done internships For dates roughly 2021-2024, though some earlier.)