Alumni Placement

Alumni Life After Mason

Our graduates have impressive careers in the arts management field and beyond. You will, too. Alumni work as arts managers and leaders with the many arts organizations.

Our alumni are creating opportunities and positively impacting communities throughout the United States including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver, New Orleans, Charlotte , Fairfax, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, among others. We also have a growing alumni presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, among others.

Selection of alumni placements around subject area:

Operations

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra TexARTS
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Sitar Arts Center
The Washington Ballet Public Broadcasting Service
Youth Orchestra of the Americas Media Artists Group
Midori and Friends Hylton Performing Arts Center

Finance, Budget, and Development

 
National Museum of African American History & Culture Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Senator John Heinz History Center
Round House Theatre AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Young Playwrights’ Theater Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
George Mason University Workhouse Arts Center

Performing Arts—General

 
Miami City Ballet GALA Hispanic Theatre
Dancemakers Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Signature Theatre Center for the Arts at George Mason University
The Grand Opera House Adagio Ballet and Dance School
The Metropolitan Chorus NOVA Manassas Symphony Orchestra

Visual Arts—General

 
National Portrait Gallery Focus Fine Photography
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Smithsonian Institution
The Art League The Textile Museum
The Phillips Collection Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Arlington Arts Center Susan Calloway Fine Arts

Communications, Marketing, and Public Relations

American Shakespeare Center StraTac Marketing
Pensacola Opera Potomac Arts Academy at George Mason University
Classical Movements United States Air Force
Universal Pictures, China Richmond Symphony Orchestra
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC

Arts Policy, Government Work, & Advocacy

 
National Endowment for the Humanities American Alliance for Theatre & Education
National Endowment for the Arts National Art Education Association
Maryland State Arts Council Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Grantmakers of Effective Organizations
Arts Council of Fairfax County Doorways for Women and Families