Art Leaders of Color Network - ALCN
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"To address racial equity in the panel process, we must actively investigate who has access to opportunities and who doesn’t. Put another way, anti-racist grantmakers must design and implement systems and protocols that increase access and decrease barriers for historically under-resourced groups. We must ask ourselves: Who submits applications? Who do we award? How do we train panel
moderators, panelists, and facilitators? In what ways can we interrupt racial bias and contribute to systemic change? "
"To address racial equity in the panel process, we must actively investigate who has access to opportunities and who doesn’t. Put another way, anti-racist grantmakers must design and implement systems and protocols that increase access and decrease barriers for historically under-resourced groups. We must ask ourselves: Who submits applications? Who do we award? How do we train panel
moderators, panelists, and facilitators? In what ways can we interrupt racial bias and contribute to systemic change? "
Announcing RE-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process
The Jerome Foundation was founded by Jerome Hill (1905-1972), a noted filmmaker, composer and painter, and awards grants to emerging artists in Hill’s home state of Minnesota and New York City, where he spent much of his creative life.
jeromefdn.org
"This is getting out of hand. While we nonprofits and foundations are not responsible for the cruel, incompetent, and corrupt administration, nor for the Apocalyptic dumpster fire that is our social and political landscape, the way we have been operating has not been helping things. . . Our constant intellectualizing while failing to take substantive actions will continue to place our society on the destructive path that will put more babies in cages, kill more people through the denial of climate change and immunization science, further embolden those who spew misogyny and xenophobia, and otherwise roll back progress that millions of people have worked and sacrificed over decades to make possible."
"If you read mainstream Chicago newspapers discussing the gentrification of Pilsen, you’ll still find words like “exotic” used to describe fellow city residents and their day-to-day lives. The underlying dehumanization is left to be subtly embroidered upon the lapel of an appeal for Pilsen residents to “leverage [their] past into a lively future.”
Challenging the Narrative of “Gentrification as Development” in Chicago
Peeling off the Grey, an exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art, offers visual understandings of the gentrification of one Chicago neighborhood.
hyperallergic.com
“I don’t think you can say ‘African American art’ without saying ‘Thelma Golden,’” says James Cuno, president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust. “You can’t say ‘contemporary art’ without saying ‘Thelma Golden.’ You can’t say ‘Harlem’ without saying ‘Thelma Golden.’
“There isn’t a museum director who has done more for her institution than Thelma has done for hers.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-thelma-golden-wins-getty-medal-20180924-story.html
“There isn’t a museum director who has done more for her institution than Thelma has done for hers.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-thelma-golden-wins-getty-medal-20180924-story.html
From 125th Street in Harlem, Thelma Golden has changed the face of art all over the U.S. - Los Angeles Times
The director of the Studio Museum in Harlem has nurtured the careers of countless members of the L.A. art world. This week, she will be awarded the J. Paul Getty Medal.
latimes.com
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