IESA arts&culture offers 4 program tracks. Courses are taught by a faculty made up mainly of practicing professionals. The advisory board and the academic and professional councils verify the relevance and quality of the programs. The applied research centers help feed and evolve them.

The Program Tracks

To cover all culture careers, apart from artists and technicians, IESA arts&culture offers 4 program tracks:

Art Expertise and Market:
To preserve, sell, and distribute works and objects of old, modern, and contemporary art (furniture, decorative arts, painting, drawing, photography, video, installations, prints).

Production and Distribution of Cultural Projects:
To create, produce, and distribute cultural events (exhibitions, performing arts, film, and audiovisual) and promote heritage.

Communication and Marketing for Culture:
To inform and attract audiences through the production of multimedia communication tools and event-based actions specific to artistic and cultural productions.

Sociocultural and Digital Mediation:
To support and grow the audiences of cultural institutions, create mediation initiatives and tools for all audiences, and develop social policies with strong cultural added value.

The programmes

In each of these tracks, IESA arts&culture offers Bachelors (3-year post-baccalauréat programs), Masters (2-year post-bachelor programs) or Professional Masters (1-year programs after a Master) leading to RNCP-registered titles at levels 6 and 7.

The IESA international department offers programs from Bac to Bac+5 taught entirely in English. At the Master level, it allows students to specialize in arts and culture management (MBA in partnership with Paris School of Business), contemporary art, ancient art and luxury, or Heritage and cultural tourism.

The school also offers certifying vocational training, short modules, à la carte courses and lecture series for professionals and non-degree students.

Tips from IESA arts&culture

To offer quality programs and verify that they always meet the needs of students and the professional world, and that they are also informed by the most relevant scientific and technical advances, IESA arts&culture has established a program improvement council and, for each track, an academic and professional council.

  • The program improvement council:

    Made up of recognized professionals representing all of the school’s tracks, the program improvement council verifies that the teaching provided matches changes in professional demand; proposes speakers and training topics; and proposes new activity programs. It suggests new tracks as careers evolve.

  • The academic and professional councils:

    Made up of scientists and professionals, whether or not they teach at the school, the academic and professional councils of each track verify that the programs match the skills needed for the careers they target. They also guarantee the scientific quality of the programs in terms of methodology and content.
The lecturers

The Instructors

To meet the school’s educational expectations, the faculty of IESA arts&culture is made up largely of practicing professionals recognized for their expertise in the subjects they teach.

Twice a year, the instructors of a given program meet with the teaching teams to evaluate the structure and content of the program and adjust their teaching to best meet students' needs.

Each year, thanks to academic partnerships and the activities of the international departments of the Applied Research Center in Contemporary Cultures, foreign speakers are invited for lectures, seminars, or master classes.

See the list of instructors and professional speakers

Applied research to nourish programs and projects

To allow its programs to best meet the needs of students and professionals, IESA arts&culture has created four applied research centers:

Contemporary cultures:

  • With its five departments (Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Near and Middle East and Maghreb), it produces specialized programs in international artistic productions, supports student projects abroad and develops the school’s academic and cultural partnerships.

Careers and skills in the cultural sectors:

  • By monitoring developments in the cultural sectors, they check that the skills acquired in IESA arts&culture programs match the needs of the professional world. They develop professionalization activities within the programs and support students in entering the workforce.

Digital innovations in cultural and educational mediation:

  • It enables the integration of new technologies into the processes of distribution, understanding, learning and evaluation of content. It encourages their application both in the programs taught by the school and in the cultural projects led by students.

Culture, ethics and policy:

  • Focused on sociocultural mediation and the place of Culture in our contemporary societies, it produces specialized teaching, organizes seminars and conferences, and advises cultural project leaders, particularly IESA students and the young entrepreneurs who come out of it.

Learn more about the applied research centers