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For Institutions

Career Infrastructure for Art Programs

Real-time, anonymized career outcome data for MFA, BFA, and curatorial programs. See how your graduates build professional art careers.

The Outcome Data Gap

Art programs invest deeply in student development but lose visibility after graduation. Alumni surveys capture a fraction of career activity. Accreditation reviews demand outcome data that doesn't exist in structured form. Meanwhile, graduates are building real careers — registering work, selling through curated auctions, building collector bases — but none of this flows back to the programs that trained them.

How It Works

A simple, consent-based pipeline from graduation to institutional insight.

Step 1

Program Recommends

aha! to graduating students

Your program introduces students to provenance registration and professional documentation. Graduates create free accounts and opt in to share anonymized career data with their institution.

Step 2

Graduates Register & Sell

Work through aha!

Alumni register artworks, build provenance records, participate in curated auctions, and sell through galleries. Every transaction creates structured, verifiable career data.

Step 3

Institution Sees Outcomes

Via anonymized dashboard

Your institutional dashboard shows aggregated, anonymized metrics — works registered, sales volume, collector cities, career trajectory — without exposing individual artist identities.

What Your Dashboard Looks Like

Aggregated, anonymized career data — updated in real time as alumni register and sell work through aha!.

Institutional Dashboard

RISD MFA Painting — Cohorts 2020–2025

Sample Data

Active Alumni

127

+18% yr/yr

Works Registered

843

+31% yr/yr

Works Sold

214

+24% yr/yr

Avg Sale Price

$2,340

+12% yr/yr

Registrations & Sales — Last 12 Months

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Anonymized Alumni Activity

ArtistRegisteredSoldRevenueLast Active
Artist A124$8,2002 days ago
Artist B83$6,7501 week ago
Artist C157$14,100Today
Artist D51$1,8003 weeks ago
Artist E95$11,4004 days ago

Top Collector Cities

New York, NY34
Los Angeles, CA22
Chicago, IL15
San Francisco, CA11
Miami, FL9

Programs We Serve

Outcome tracking for any program that produces working artists and arts professionals.

MFA Programs

Studio art, painting, sculpture, photography, new media

BFA Programs

Undergraduate fine arts and studio programs

Curatorial Studies

Curatorial practice and exhibition design programs

Residencies

Post-graduate artist residency programs

Fellowships

Arts fellowships and emerging artist programs

Privacy by Design

All institutional data is anonymized and consent-based. Alumni explicitly opt in to share career activity with their institution. Individual identities are never revealed — institutions see aggregated cohort metrics, not personal details. Artists can revoke consent at any time from their profile settings.

What You Get

Real-Time Outcome Data

Live metrics on alumni career activity — registrations, sales, and professional engagement updated continuously.

Cohort Comparison

Compare outcomes across graduation years, program tracks, and media concentrations.

Career Trajectories

Track how alumni career activity evolves over time — from first registration to sustained sales.

Collector Geography

See where collectors who purchase your alumni work are located — useful for partnership development.

Accreditation Support

Export-ready outcome data for NASAD, Middle States, and other accreditation bodies.

Zero Admin Burden

No surveys to send, no responses to chase. Data flows automatically from platform activity.

Schedule a Partnership Conversation

We're partnering with a small number of programs for our pilot cohort. Let's discuss how aha! can support your program's outcome tracking needs.

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