https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-500-23970-4
Reilly (Women Artists) delivers a fiery rebuke of the exclusionary art world and charges museums and galleries to be more intentional about amplifying the voices of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.
http://labs.aam-us.org/blog/labor-of-love-revaluing-museum-work/
For further reading on this topic, we recommend the following pieces:
A recap of the 2015 AAM rogue session. https://storify.com/MuseumWorkers/aam-2015
Sarah Erdman, Claudia Ocello, Dawn Estabrooks Salerno, and Marieke Van Damme, “Leaving the Museum Field.” http://labs.aam-us.org/blog/leaving-the-museum-field
Michael Hare, “Hard Times at Plimoth Plantation.” https://theoutline.com/post/2511/hard-times-at-plimoth-plantation
Nicole Ivy, “The Labor of Diversity.” http://www.aam-us.org/docs/default-source/museum/the-labor-of-diversity.pdf
Amy Tyson, The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History’s Front Lines. http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/wages-history
Andy Urban, “Lifting the curtain on living history.” http://ncph.org/history-at-work/lifting-the-curtain-on-living-history
“In the end, the very political activism that defined Laura Raicovich’s tenure as the president and executive director of the Queens Museum drove her out the door. On Friday, after just three years at the helm, Ms. Raicovich announced that she was stepping down.”
“In 2015, Ithaka S+R, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), and the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) set out to quantify with demographic data an issue that has been of increasing concern within and beyond the arts community: the lack of representative diversity in professional museum roles. Ithaka’s analysis found there were structural barriers to entry in these positions for people of color.”
https://aamd.org/our-members/from-the-field/case-studies-in-museum-diversity
“The Cleveland Museum of Art opens its doors every day to all visitors free of charge. However, if very few of the people working there look like you, do you really feel welcome?
“It’s absolutely essential that when you walk into the door of an art museum, like the Cleveland Museum of Art, you see yourself reflected and you feel welcome. When you don’t see that, you feel like an outsider, it’s very difficult to fully welcome you,” said CMA’s director of education and academic affairs Cyra Levenson.”
http://wcpn.ideastream.org/news/cleveland-museum-of-art-focuses-on-bringing-diversity-to-museums
New director of U-M Museum of Art announces open office hours
SOCIAL JUSTICE & MUSEUMS RESOURCE LIST initiated by La Tanya S. Autry, @artstuffmatters, July 2015
A successful framework for museums dealing w[ith] race relations doesn’t exist. We have to imagine and activate it. – Aleia Brown, #Museumsrespondtoferguson, tweet July 11, 2015 @aleiabrown
https://www.nemanet.org/files/3614/7968/0644/SOCIALJUSTICEMUSEUMSRESOURCELIST.pdf
– Deadline: January 5, 2018 by 11:59 pm (CT)