
Lab participants include the Tribeca Film Institute, Whitney Museum of American Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Creative Capital, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, Hester Street Collaborative, and many more.
For more information, see the following press releases:
For more information, see the following press releases:
Why this Lab? Why now?
Why this Lab? Why now?
- New York City’s arts sector is racially exclusive, and does not reflect the racial and cultural realities of New Yorkers of color.
- Racial equity work is siloed and under-resourced in the arts sector.
- The arts sector, like many others, is entrenched in a diversity (instead of an equitable outcomes) framework.
Arts Lab Goals
Arts Lab Goals
- Build analyses and skills in racial equity and applying a race lens to: cultural equity, policy making in the arts, and stakeholder/community engagement.
- Support New York City arts organizations in developing concrete, actionable, race-explicit interventions (prototypes) that build practice, comfort and a working knowledge of equity.
- Curate a collaborative peer learning and action network for racial equity within the NYC arts sector.
- Push the arts past diversity frameworks into systemic change (addressing institutional and structural racism).
The Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab will run from June 2017 to June 2018, and will support participating arts leaders in developing and implementing strategic racial equity prototypes, that incorporate training on topics such as racial justice, community and stakeholder engagement, race-explicit policymaking and cultural equity. In 2018, participating organizations will be eligible to be nominated for prototype awards for ongoing racial equity work.