Students take advantage of an extensive network of performing and visual arts organizations to participate in a 4-credit, hands-on application of management skills. The external internship is a unique feature of Mason's Arts Management program, as we are located within a 30 mile radius of dozens of premier arts institutions. Some of these opportunities for external internships include:

• Alexandria Symphony
• American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras
• Americans for the Arts
• Apollo's Fire - The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
• Arena Stage
• Arlington Arts Center
• Art League of Alexandria
• Art Out Loud
• artdc.org the art forum
• Arts Council of Fairfax County
• Arts Presenters
• Capital Children's Museum (closed until 2008)
• Center Stage
• Choral Arts Society of Washington
• Corcoran Gallery of Art
• Dance Place
• Fairfax Choral Society
• Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
• Garth Newl Music Center
• Gray Ghost Theatre Company
• Kreeger Museum
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Lorton Arts Foundation
• Manassas Center for the Arts
• McLean Symphony
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Momentum Dance Theatre
• Montgomery County Arts & Humanities Council
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Newseum (closed until building is complete)
• NPR
• Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts
• Pyramid Atlantic
• Samia Photography
• Smithsonian Institution
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
• STREB
• Textile Museum
• The Art Legacy Institute (TALI)
• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• The Maryland National Park & Planning Commission - Parks & Recreation Prince Georges (MD) County
• The Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association at The Athenaeum
• The Summer Opera Theatre Company
• The Washington Ballet
• The Washington Chorus
• The Washington Stage Guild
• Torpedo Factory Art Center
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Virginia Opera
• Washington Opera
• Washington Performing Arts Society
• WETA
• WGMS
• Wolf Trap
• Woolly Mammoth Theater

Commercial arts management opportunities:

• Ecofusion
• many local visual arts galleries
• several regional arts booking agents