Hi Everyone,
Here is the weekly roundup of Black Lives Matter, protests and equity-centered news.
From: Ruby Lopez Harper <rharper@artsusa.org>
Subject: August 26, Black Lives Matter, protests and equity-centered weekly news roundup
Hello/hola, esteemed colleagues:
In response to requests for information, national context and what is happening in other communities, we are compiling this digest to support you in navigating current events
and in your commitment to equity in the long term. We will circulate this news digest weekly, every Wednesday. While this is certainly not a comprehensive or exhaustive list, we hope it boosts you in your exploration, knowledge and awareness building.
We are looking at additional ways to support your equity work and welcome resources, ideas, examples and opportunities to share with the field. Please send them to
services@artsusa.org.
We invite you to share this news roundup with your networks and colleagues.
Thank you for your continued work.
PROGRAMMING/RESOURCES
(We will feature new offerings here – free to low-cost opportunities. Previous listings have been moved down to below the signature)
Hosted by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. If you write job descriptions that are welcoming to all jobseekers, they will come for the opportunity! Using best practices
and case studies, we will practice writing relevant and inclusive job descriptions that attract the individuals we seek.
Hosted by In Full Color. How do you REALLY make your workplace more diverse? Today’s social-political climate has brought a renewed and much-needed push for diversity
and inclusion in companies across the country, but the unique challenges of virtual work can make implementing D&I initiatives difficult.
Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) invites you to participate in our September Town Hall:
Arts as Civic Engagement, highlighting the momentous power to actively participate in civic issues through art. Participants will share how the act of voting or encouraging others to vote, completing the 2020 Census, and other forms of socially engaged
art can build momentum towards lasting change. Join us as we spotlight a wide variety of work that focuses on mobilizing AAPI communities throughout the country and learn about civic-engagement-driven projects during Town Hall’s rapid-fire line-up of 60-second
pitches.
Hosted by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. October is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Awareness Month. This workshop is timed to acknowledge
and celebrate regulations that ensure access. Many entities claim to be fully accessible when all they mean is they have one mostly-accessible bathroom stall or a theater seat that accommodates a wheelchair. What other facilities, equipment, and spaces are
there to consider when checking for full accessibility for our staff members and guests? Let's talk about it!
Hosted by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. How does your organization determine which programs to present and whose cultures to privilege or promote?
Do these discussions occur at all around your meeting tables? How can increased cultural awareness and understanding be an outcome of arts provision? Let's discuss over lunch!
Hosted by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Are you concerned you may be using the wrong titles, nomenclature, parts of speech, or colloquial terms
when referring to, or speaking about, guests or visitors with disabilities? Wonder no more: enter a safe space where we can talk about just this and ensure that future conversations will be respectful and appropriate.
Hosted by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Sometimes when we talk about inclusive cultures, we focus only on race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, and
gender expression. Let's not forget that there are other employees and guests who are underserved because of family-unfriendly policies or practices. Talking openly and beginning to solve these issues will go a long way towards full inclusion.
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We are asking small and mid-sized cultural and arts organizations that are of, by, and for marginalized communities to help us collect the data and create the network
that will most effectively advocate for an ecosystem in which our organizations can better meet their missions, and where our relationship with private philanthropy is equitable and just.
Thanks for reading. We hope you find this news digest to be a helpful tool to support your equity work, and welcome feedback at
services@artsusa.org.
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Ruby Lopez Harper
Senior Director of Local Arts Advancement
Americans for the Arts
PROGRAMMING
Hosted by the League of American Orchestras. Please join us on Wednesday, August 26, at 1:00pm Eastern/10:00am Pacific for a virtual listening session. You
must be a League member to register. The session will serve as a forum where you can voice your general reactions to the statement and materials, discuss how you might use this statement with your orchestra, and ask any questions.
Hosted by Arts Administrators of Color Network. Dr. Keith D. Lee will lead a discussion on diversity in arts administration education, training, and practices and what
it could mean to the field while it also adapts to funding changes, to the transformation of faculty and staff responsibilities in university and arts organizations, and to student requirements, enrollment, and curricula development. Dr. Lee will be joined
by Ms Cheryl Slay Carr, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University; Ms Ruby Lopez Harper, Senior Director for Local Arts Advancement at American for the Arts; and Mr. Anthony Meyers, Founding
Director of Leading Changemakers.
Narrative drives policy. When we think about the ways philanthropy has and continues to play a big role is this process of perpetuating, shifting, debunking, or changing
narratives, it is important to turn to those who work relentlessly and consistently as examples of how the field can look in the present and future. This discussion at GIA is foregrounded by our narrative
change series in 2019, where we featured funders and guests including Akonadi Foundation, Rinku Sen, Doris Duke, Jeff Chang, Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundations, Ford Foundation, and others.
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