Hello James,
It’s very curious to me that the men were counted by sex and race, yet the Caucasian women were counted WITH those of color (unless I am misunderstanding your
statement.) It makes it sound quite equitable, yet if the figures were divided by sex AND race/color we might see a different story.
Louise Coffey-Webb
Collections Manager, Art in Public Places Program
Cultural Affairs, City Of Culver City
City Hall, 2nd Floor
9770 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
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This thread is now over 3 months old. My original advice stands: it’s critical that ad-hoc advisors are fully voting members of artist selection processes.
In any case, I found some additional data when I was reviewing the Sprint collection recently. As a result, I realized that I made a clerical error when I reported this data previously. I apologize for my earlier inaccuracy and I would
now like to correct the error.
As I mentioned previously, we were able to track the ethnicity and gender of the artists for 85% of the collection. With the new data that I discovered, I learned that 52% were made by Caucasian males and 48% were made by artists of color
or women. In terms of dollars spent, 50% went to Caucasian males and 50% went to artists of color or women.
James Martin
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM Beth Tobey <btobey@cityofsantacruz.com> wrote:
Thank you! This is helpful!
Beth
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Beth, I have some related experience to offer from my years as a corporate curator. From 2001-2008 I was the curator of the Sprint Art Collection. When I joined Sprint, there was already a small acquisitions committee (about 8 people) that included an individual from Sprint's supply chain management group whose job was to focus on supplier diversity and inclusion. Later during my tenure, a very high-level Office of Diversity and Inclusion was established that reported directly to the CEO. In other words, diversity and inclusion was extremely important to the corporate culture as a whole, so we made it a priority with the art collection. (It's also important to me personally, so that made that part of the job very gratifying).
In terms of your situation, I recommend that someone from the ad-hoc committee be made a full voting member of the appointed arts commission.
If I were to do it all over again, I would focus on relationships more than numbers. I was able to build great relationships with KC-area artists, but relationships with internal employee groups could have been better.
In any case, we had a lot of success in terms of numbers. The full-time art registrar was able to track gender and ethnicity for about 85% of the collection. Of the works tracked, 62% were made by a female or minority artist.
I hope that helps!
James Martin
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Beth Tobey <btobey@cityofsantacruz.com> wrote:
We are considering forming some kind of ad hoc advisory committee to review projects through the lens of Equity & Inclusivity. I’m wondering if any of you have done something like this and if so, how did they interact with the appointed Arts Commission? Any words of advice or cautionary tales? While I do often try and recruit a diverse selection/review panel for specific projects, this ad hoc group would advise the Arts Commission both specifically and generally.
Thanks,
Beth Tobey
Arts Program Manager
City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office
(831) 420-5154 | btobey@cityofsantacruz.com
www.SantaCruzCityArts.com
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