In fulfilling its nonprofit mission to inspire, nurture, and innovate through contemporary art, the Contemporary leads with its core values of artist-centricity, inclusivity, and being forward-thinking, educating, and going beyond expectations and surprising visitors. Collected here are a few resources for advancing social justice and racial equity in the arts.
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Reading List:
- A Beginners Guide to Community-Based Arts by Keith Knight
- Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum by Bridget R. Cooks
- A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements by Nicolas Lampert
Webinars and Online Discussions:
- Building Language Justice for Artists and Arts Organizations from Common Field
- Houston, We Have a Problem: Confronting Racism in the Arts from Common Field
- Art Education in the Red: Strategies for Cultural Education and Resilience in Underfunded Communities from Common Field
- The Hoodoisie
- Virtual Armory Live | Public Art: The Way Forward
- The Cuseum: Striving Towards an Equitable Future – Addressing Systemic Injustice as a Cultural Organization
- The Association of Art Museum Curators: Envisioning a Future, Seizing the Now webinar from May 21, 2020
Additional Resources:
- Dismantling Racism in Museum Education
- Anti-racism Resources for white people and parents to deepen their anti-racism work- Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein
- The Incluseum
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Assata’s Daughters
- Authority Collective: Resources for Photographers and Beyond on Anti-Racism
- BEAM: Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
- Black Lives Matter
- Black Photographers Covering Protests 2020
- BLKPaper
- Brave Space Alliance
- Black Visions Collective
- Campaign Zero
- The Center for Artistic Activism
- Daca Renewal Directory
- Renew DACA and Explore Your Legal Options
- Stay Up-to-Date on DACA during Coronavirus
- Decolonizing Documentary & Journalism
- Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Equal Justice Initiative
- For Freedoms
- Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
- My Block My Hood My City
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- National Bail Fund Network
- National Bailout
- Museum As Site for Social Action: MASS Action — MASS Action Toolkit
- Photographer’s Green Book
- The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography
- Principles for Ethical Cancellation
- Reclaim the Block
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- Souls Grown Deep
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Steve Locke – What Do We Tell The Children?
- Texas Organizing Project
- Texas Civil Rights Project
- Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice | Exposing Racism
- USC’s Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power, and Privilege