Arts Management and Entrepreneurship MA Applicants
A portfolio must be submitted with your application. Your portfolio will be evaluated in three areas:
- Artistic skills
- Entrepreneurialism, leadership, or management skills
- Socially engaged practice or social justice values/goals
Submit a range of materials that provide evidence of your work in these three areas. Materials submitted for evidence of your artistic skills must be video or audio files. Additional portfolio items can include writing samples, images, web applications, work samples, et cetera.
Please upload a minimum of four items demonstrating your relevant work and experience in these areas. Please edit the length of each individual submission to a maximum of five minutes. If submitting an item representing a group performance, please indicate the time-stamp for a passage in which your work is featured. Please limit your portfolio to ten items.
Please do not submit links to external sites such as blogs, personal webpages, YouTube channels, or digital portfolios. All pieces must be added directly to your portfolio.
CoPA Integrated Bachelor's-Master's Applicants
Applicants to the Integrated dual degree program at CoPA must submit a portfolio to accompany their application. The portfolio should respond to the following prompt: You have the opportunity to pitch an idea to potential investors, partners, collaborators, volunteers, government representatives, or any other group of people whose support and resources you would need in order to see your idea come to fruition.
Please create the presentation you would use for your pitch. The idea can be anything: a production of your work, an event, a business venture, an organization.
Your presentation should present a clear goal for the idea, plans for how you will execute the idea, what specific thing you need from the people to whom you are pitching, and a description of any potential financial needs and/or returns associated with the idea.
The presentation can include examples of your own work and any other content you choose in any format. Please do not submit links to websites or social media pages, or video content over five minutes in length.
MM Performer-Composer Applicants
All applicants to the MM Performer-Composer are required to submit an Artist Portfolio, including two to four samples of artistic work and one Process Statement. A work sample captures a single project, and must consist of the following three elements:
- Primary Document—The primary document presenta the piece of work itself. The primary document should be an audio or video excerpt (five minutes maximum) of the work. If this type of documentation is not available for the work sample, please explain in the written description.
- Supporting Materials—Supporting materials help illuminate your process and can include scores, transcriptions, source materials, renderings, etc.
- Process Statement—The process statement should enlighten us on your way of working. How did you take your projects from idea to execution? How does your work relate to the values outlined in your Statement of Intent? (300 words maximum)
If applicable, at least one work sample should demonstrate your experience with socially engaged artistry, experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and/or technology-based exploration.
Upload each of these materials as distinct files. For example, for a given work sample, upload the video file, transcription, program notes, and written description as four separate files.