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Disrupting Systemic Racism in the Arts & Culture Sector:
From Thought to Action

艺术咨询集团(ACG)团队对当今社会中普遍存在的仇恨和不公正感到痛心. im体育哀悼黑人在无意义的种族暴力行为中丧生, imprisonment, and injustice that have occurred for more than 400 years. im体育向直接受到这些最近和正在发生的悲惨事件影响的许多家庭和社区致以最深切的哀悼.

ACG支持“黑人的命也是命”运动和黑人社区. 他们的声音和故事经常被排除在外,但却与im体育社区的活力和交叉性密不可分. im体育认为,艺术和文化组织的目的是im体育,应该以更高的标准谴责不公正, seeking ways to actively disrupt conscious bias, tackling unconscious bias, battling stereotypes, and eliminating racism and discrimination.

As leaders in arts and culture management consulting, im体育认识到,im体育在权力的餐桌上享有特权. im体育也承认,im体育的球队和球场历来以白人为主. Therefore, im体育有责任通过参与公开和诚实的对话来教育自己,并大声疾呼,以帮助组织实现多元化, inclusive, equitable field. 作为变革者,ACG将为那些声音被边缘化和沉默的人而奋斗. im体育将发起并支持结束系统性种族主义、偏见和压迫的努力

ACG致力于继续推动艺术和文化机构的发展,使其能够更好地提升所im体育的社区. Without community, there is no art. Without art, there is no creative expression. Without creative expression, we lose touch with our humanity. ACG明白,思想和行动可以产生预期和意想不到的后果. Actions come with risk. Artists take personal and creative risks every day. 现在轮到im体育与那些对如何积极破坏种族主义和结束歧视性做法持类似和不同观点的人进行接触了. ACG will continue to

  • 提倡治理和董事会招聘模式,使客户远离强化白人至上主义的活动,转向扩大人员和观点多样性的做法.
  • Proactively identify, cultivate, recruit, 为im体育的猎头客户和ACG团队安排有色人种.
  • 确保工作机会公开,职位公告广泛分发.
  • 通过执行高管搜索和其他薪酬基准研究,确定并突出行业和地区的可比性,提前实现薪酬公平.
  • 与寻求在艺术和文化领域发展的不同人士进行交流和指导.
  • 与支持该领域新兴有色人种领袖的组织合作.
  • 在客户和ACG团队高管搜索的每个阶段,有意识地采用注重颜色的招聘流程.
  • Provide bias training, anti-racism educational resources, 为与im体育合作的每个委员会和客户制定具体项目的包含策略.
  • 收集人口统计信息并提供多样性指标,以便客户能够更深入地了解自己和他们的社区.
  • Utilize research-based, 有效的评估工具,客观地确定职位软技能需求, minimize unconscious hiring biases, 加深对团队成员偏见的理解.
  • Compose position announcements, client reports, and public communication with ongoing sensitivity towards race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and inherent power language.
  • 积极参与ACG团队正在进行的多样性和反种族主义教育.

Pledging to take these actions is only the first step. im体育也强烈鼓励im体育的客户积极主动地参与到他们的努力中,通过接受以下S.A.F.E. actions. With this framing in mind, ACG将继续与以下客户和组织合作:

Set institutional policies that strengthen equity, diversity, and inclusion in programming, staffing, governing, and serving communities.
Assert their commitment to anti-racism, inclusion, diversity, equity, and access values in ACG agreements and position announcements.
Form inclusive committees with an equity lens, 包括那些目前不是现有董事会权力结构成员的人.
E评估定性和定量数据,以减少评估中的无意识偏差, employment, and decision making.

ACG将坚定地作为建设性变革的推动者而努力, especially when we have a seat at a table of power. 是否有掌权者因为这些价值观而不愿接受im体育公司的im体育? Perhaps. 为了打破系统性的种族主义,设立更高的行业标准值得冒险吗? Definitely. im体育会不知疲倦地与所有组织合作,不管它们在广泛的连续体中处于什么位置,来解决这些问题吗? Happily. im体育是否需要加倍努力,在这些承诺清单上增加更多的行动步骤? Absolutely.

As an ongoing dialog in the arts and culture sector, im体育鼓励您将您的想法和建议发送到 OurCommitments@ArtsConsulting.com. im体育欢迎您的想法和声音,im体育将继续与您一起学习和成长,并为个人和机构提供im体育,为该领域增添活力.

艺术im体育机构同事的回应,令im体育深受鼓舞, the funding community, and especially artists themselves. im体育的团结和集体价值观比以往任何时候都更强大. im体育保证团结一致,支持和鼓励艺术和文化领域的合作伙伴消除不公正现象, hatred, and discrimination. Love will prevail.

Dr. Bruce D. Thibodeau, President
on behalf of the ACG Team

 

Arts Consulting Group is committed to the principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Success (I.D.E.A.S.).im体育认识到每个人、组织和社区都是独一无二的. im体育仔细倾听,讨论各种选择,寻求理解,并努力 围绕多样性和包容性建立共识,以便与 客户、顾问、艺术家和候选人是一个学习的机会.

 

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June 2020

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