External Internships
For information about the Arts Management Internship Program, or to arrange for an internship, please contact the Assistant Director of Professional Development, Professor Nicole Springer.
Office Hours:
By appointment only: Appointment may be made by email to nspringe@gmu.edu. Please mention EXTERNAL INTERNSHIP in the subject line of your message.
As a first step in the internship process, it is suggested that you familiarize yourself with the Internship Guide. Please download the Internship Guide here.
External Internship Opportunities
Located within a 30-mile radius of dozens of premier arts institutions, the Master of Arts in Arts Management Program provides its students an extensive selection of excellent internships. Participation in the 4-credit, hands-on external internship enhances the student’s management skills in the visual and performing arts.
Students take advantage of Mason’s extensive network of organizations and businesses that include:
- Adventure Theatre
- AAAE Conference
- Alexandria Symphony
- Amalfi Coast Music Festival
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- 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
- Asian American Art Center
- Beethoven Society of America
- Broadway Gallery
- Center Stage
- Choral Arts Society of Washington
- City Dance
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Dance Elite
- Dance Place
- Ecofusion
- Fairfax County Dance Coalition
- Fairfax Choral Society
- Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
- Ford’s Theatre
- Garth Newl Music Center
- Hirshorn Museum
- Hylton Performing Arts Center
- Immanuel Bible Church Players
- Instruments in the Attic
- Karen Reedy Dance
- Kreeger Museum
- Library of Congress
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Lorton Arts Foundation
- Manassas Center for the Arts
- Metamorphosis Art Show
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ModArts
- Momentum Dance Theatre
- Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Council
- National Children’s Museum
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Newseum
- NPR
- Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts
- Potomac Arts Academy
- Prince William Symphony Orchestra
- Pyramid Atlantic
- Qm2
- Samia Photography
- Signature Theatre
- Sister Cities International
- 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 American Century Theater
- The Chateauville Foundation
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- The Maryland National Park and Planning Commission–Parks and Recreation Prince Georges (MD) County
- The McLean Symphony
- The Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association at The Athenaeum
- 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
- Vail Music Festival
- Virginia Opera
- Voce Chamber Singers
- Washington Opera
- Washington Performing Arts Society
- WETA
- Wolf Trap
- Woolly Mammoth Theater
- YOA Orchestras of the Americas
