Arts & Cultural Equity

Arts & Cultural Equity: Current Examples and Relevant Strategies brings together arts and cultural workers, managers, educators, and students to share current insights, experiences, and practices around equity and leadership within arts and culture organizations. Presenters will represent the range of equity work within Oregon-based arts and cultural organizations and groups. Our goal is for everyone to walk away with approaches to sharpen our collective work around these practices. Presenters include:

• Eloise Damrosch // Executive Director, Regional Arts & Culture Council
• Phillip Hillaire //  Board Member, Regional Arts & Culture Council
• Andre Middleton // Director of Equity & Digital Inclusion, Open Signal
• Roya Amirsoleymani // Director of Community Engagement, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Arts Workers for Equity
• Kathleen Holt // Associate Director/Editor, Oregon Humanities Magazine
• Toni Tabora-Roberts // Founder and Chief Esper, Esper House; Arts Workers for Equity

This event additionally celebrates the 20th anniversary of  CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside for Arts & Culture Workers. CultureWork is a timely work-place oriented publication of the UO’s Center for Community Arts & Cultural Policy, serving arts and cultural management practitioners by publishing commentaries, advisories, and case studies about trends and practices in community arts, cultural policy, arts and education, and arts management.

This forum is free and includes lunch. Coffee and registration will begin at 9:00a. Please RSVP here by Friday, May 5 at 5:00p PST. Please contact ccacp@uoregon.edu with any questions.

Presented by the UO’s Center for Community Arts & Cultural Policy (CCACP) in collaboration with the University of Oregon Arts and Administration Program (AAD) and with special support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) and Oregon Humanities.