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Complex Exchange: Building Equity through Partnership
How can museums partner to address institutional and systemic inequity?
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Harmon and Harriet Kelly Collection of African American Art: Works on PaperNov 2015 – April 2016
The MashupUnexpected pairings
Artists/MediaDesigners/ActivistsTechs/Historians
Gallerists/Policy MakersMakers/Critics
The possibilities are endless
Tradition/Innovation HopBeauty/Fashion Black Body/White SpaceRepresentation/SubjectivityMedia/Self-ImageAuthorship/LaborHip Hop culturePower /Privilege
Program Successes•Audience response and receptiveness
•Addressed a clear need
•Making space for artist voice
Program Lessons•Reflect equity in process and content
•Equity vs equality
•Perceptions of Institutions vs Community Based Organizations
Program Lessons“As a programming team, it was essential to us that each Complex Exchange was driven by an incredible roster of presenters from the African American community in the Seattle region. We also wanted each group to feel ownership over their conversation. As a representative of SAM and a white straight male, my responsibility wasn’t to shape the content of that conversation, but to step back, listen, and adapt my practices to facilitate their conversation.”
- Philip Nadasdy, Manager of Public Programs at SAM
Program Lessons•Reflect equity in process and content
•Equity vs equality
•Perceptions of Institutions vs Community Based Organizations
Conclusion
Take this model. Do it better. Teach us back in return.
Leilani LewisAssistant Director, Diversity Communications & Outreach, University of [email protected]
Regan ProKayla Skinner Deputy Director for Education & Public Programs, Seattle Art [email protected]
