An essential part comprises the second group of disciplines. They are mainly with practical realization and equip the students with practical knowledge about the institutional, legal, economic, organizational and communicational aspects of art management. The students will be introduced in the Bulgarian and Sofia art scene, in the institutional and administrative context, in the civic networks and informal artistic groups, in the market milieu and legal rules of art functioning in Bulgaria and abroad.
Didactic formats: lectures, seminars, workshops, visits and discussions of cultural events, participation in art projects, meetings with artists and critics, publications in the electronic journal of the program.
General knowledge and skills:
- Artistic schools and trends in the XX and XXI centuries
- Genre and style development
- Development of audiences
- Crucial artistic turns, crises and debates in the XX and XXI centuries
- Relation between arts and popular culture
- Various methodological approaches
- Skills in interpretation, contextualization and critical evaluation of art works
Practical knowledge and skills
- Financing of the arts
- Art markets
- Arts organizations and art management
- Legal aspects of art management
- Arts projects, fund rising, project management
- Evaluation of the social effect of an art phenomenon
- Urban and strategic planning
- Team work, communication skills, professional ethos
The students from this Program prepare for:
- Managers of Arts and Literature;
- Curators;
- Arts and literary critics, journalists;
- Art administrators;
- Scholars and researchers in the area of arts and literature.
Graduate students can successfully find professional realization in a number of sectors, which have a direct relation to the arts, to the organization of artistic work, public expertise and public discussion on arts and literature:
- State and municipal management and administration of culturе and the arts;
- Private companies focusing on activities related to the аrts;
- televisions, info-sites, related to he arts and literature
- Business organizations and cultural institutions focusing on activities related to the arts and literature;
- Experts, operators, organizers and animators in cultural-information institutes, agencies and galleries abroad;
- Agencies for literature and the arts;
- Festivals, competitions, celebrations and other cultural events;
- Researchers and scholars in the field of culture;
- Free-lance professions (curators, critics, impresarios, consultants, animators, producers etc,).
The Master Program is suitable both for students coming from undergraduate programs in social sciences and humanities and for practitioners with some experience in this area.
