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Art Exhibit in the Wexner Center for the Arts

Welcome to the Department of AAEP

The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy is a robust, innovative, and welcoming community that prepares educators, researchers, administrators, and policymakers in the fields of arts education, arts management, museum education, and cultural policy.

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100%

Job placement rate of Art Education Licensure Graduates

Top 5

Both Art Education and Arts Policy and Administration Programs

Doctoral Students

A group of students take a photo in a library

Art Education

Online MA in Art Education

Iuka Productions student group, posing behind the $1,000 check they won at the StARTup competition at the 2018 Barnett Symposium. StARTup is Ohio State's first arts entrepreneurship competition.

Arts Policy & Administration

Barnett Internship Program

The Barnett Center

AAEP Advocacy

"The museum education and administration program surrounded me with a community of like-minded individuals passionate about museum work." Alumna Hilary Katz, Master of Arts in Art Education (2019).

"I cultivated leadership and professional skills, which will surely serve me well into my future career." Alumnus Diego Arellano, Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management (2018).

CHIAROSCURO: AAEP's Annual Newsletter

We are thrilled to present CHIAROSCURO, our yearly newsletter. We claimed this name as a metaphor for the contrasts we consider, and with which we engage as teachers and researchers of arts administration, arts education, and arts policy.

The newsletter highlights our students and alumni as they pursue meaningful research and community engagement in and through the arts.

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