Explore the process of developing, launching, and sustaining a creative practice as an artist or designer in both personal and professional settings. Interactive and experiential courses present the tools, methods, and business practices used by professionals across the creative sector.

Creative practices and entrepreneurship are intertwined. All students can enroll in Creative Entrepreneurship courses, which cover a broad range of topics including: starting creative ventures; marketing; grant writing; social entrepreneurship; budgeting; managing teams and projects; and writing contracts and proposals.

The Creative Entrepreneurship (C/ENTR) Minor provides you with the skills to enhance your studio practice with practical coursework, all while earning distinguishing academic credentials.

All C/ENTR courses hold the Creative Experiential Learning (CEL) certification for the 6 credits required by all MICA students. Additionally, many courses are CPT eligible, making them appropriate for international students.

“Phfft, who needs luck?!?!

We’re Creative Entrepreneurs!”

The minor allows students look through the lens of their creative practice, making connections between art, design, business and sustainable development

The C/ENTR faculty are creative professionals practicing in a wide range of disciplines. The faculty assure students are aligning their creative solutions with their personal values and are using and language of business to advocate for their creative solutions.

Complement your studio major with professional skills and experiences, rounding out your portfolio with classroom and client-based work!

Many courses work with real world clients on real projects to develop creative solutions that generate cultural, social, and economic value. This is real world experience for your portfolio!

Creative Entrepreneurship prepares students for a rewarding, varied, and financially stable creative life!

Many courses provide excellent pathways to the Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship co-curricular programs such as Art Market, Just/Start, Up/Start, and more!

Creative Entrepreneurship helps you build a network of creative professionals through its faculty, guest speakers, clients, mentors, and field trips.

With Creative Entrepreneurship courses you’ll graduate ready to start your own creative venture, build a roster of freelance clients, negotiate commission or contract work, secure full-time opportunities across the creative and cultural sector, and in creative agencies, for-profit, or nonprofit organizations.