Bachelor of Arts in Art Business
Bluefield, USA
BA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The BA in Art Business at Bluefield College combines studio practice with business coursework to teach curating, marketing, and selling art. You’ll gain studio technique, critical evaluation of global artworks, and entrepreneurial skills through accounting, small-business management, and internet marketing. The programme includes internships and a hands-on business capstone.
Career Outcomes: Graduates enter galleries, museums, arts organizations, and enterprises. Roles include art managers and promoters, museum and gallery associates, marketing professionals, as well as curator, gallery director, arts administrator, arts marketer, and arts entrepreneur. Skills apply to visual arts management, curation, arts administration, gallery management, and art sales positions.
The art business program develops your technique in the studio and business skillset for curating, marketing, and selling art. As an art business major, you’ll build a capacity for the critical evaluation of global artworks. The program also builds your entrepreneurial skills with coursework in accounting, small business management, and internet marketing. Graduates may work as art managers and promoters, museum and gallery associates, and marketing professionals.
The heart of all art studies at Bluefield College is the Donald and Maria Cox Visual Arts Building, a historic brick building. Renovated to inspire creativity from every angle, the light-washed art studios and classrooms offer spaces designed to build a rich and personal body of work. When you’re ready to shadow administration or management professionals in the workplace, the art and business faculty can help you structure an internship. The culmination of this degree is a business capstone course, requiring you to craft a hands-on business project often combined with your internship.
