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REAL—Race Equity in Arts Leadership

By Jennifer Cole, Executive Director, Metro Arts  —

The arts tell the story about who we are as a culture, and reflect the social and political reality of our communities. Nashville is a rapidly changing urban area. By 2040, our community will have no clear racial majority. Our neighborhoods, schools and cultural rituals are shaped by the deepening diversity of our population. Cities are increasingly grappling with issues of institutional racism and classism as they become more plural. Cultural organizations must also grapple with these issues within their own artistic work and organizational structures. Metro Arts, seeks to support cultural pluralism and equity through conversations, training and investments.

This fall we are launching REAL (Race Equity in Arts Leadership), a learning cohort and research partnership with the Vanderbilt Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy. We are actively seeking applications from leaders within cultural arts nonprofits who are interested in exploring the role of race and class equity in our arts ecosystem. This is a pilot project and open to 20 inaugural participants who desire to have difficult but transformative conversations about race and class in our city and in arts organizations.

Metro Arts and the Curb Center at Vanderbilt will announce cadre participants in late September and the first session will be in October. All applications must be received by September 11, at 4:00 pm.

For more information about REAL read the project overview.

To apply to be part of the REAL learning cadre click here.

For questions contact Jennifer Cole, Executive Director at Jennifer.Cole@nashville.gov

 

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