Creative Equity Toolkit

The Evolution of Executive Transition and Allied Practices

An essay that outlines evolutions in executive transition management for the American not-for-profit sector, identifies challenges requiring attention - including expanding leadership diversity and the overdependence on “heroic” leaders, and offers guidance for board leaders, executives, funders, and consultants.

The Exhibitionist

Art tours of UK galleries and museums that position works in the context of colonialism, imperialism and racism.

'we unravel the role colonialism played in shaping and funding a major national collection, looking at the broader material history of celebrated works: where the money comes from, the ways they’ve been displayed, and the ideological aesthetics at work. The history of British art is also the history of empire and genocide, written by collectors who traded in landscapes and lives.'

The Gender Pay Gap Among Australian Artists: Some preliminary findings

In Australia in 2016/17, female artists earned 25% less than for males, and women earned 30% less from their creative work. These differentials were greater than the workforce gender pay gap of 16% at that time.

'We are therefore left with the conclusion that women artists across all artistic occupations are subject to forms of gender-related disadvantage that reflect discriminatory problems affecting women in society at large, and which may be more serious in the arts than in other areas.'

The Great White Social Justice Novel

Review of reviews of US work American Dirt and Australian novelist Anna Krien's Act of Grace.

'The white standpoint of the writer, her appropriation of the stories and voices of non-white characters, have mostly gone unacknowledged in this literary reception.'

The Path to Liberation- how to walk the talk of equity rather than white supremacy in philanthropy

This blog introduces the “Shake the Foundations” network in the US, which provides peer-to-peer exchange for funders and movement partners aiming to move capital into community-based, democratic re-granting and investment vehicles that can support the economic power and self-determination of communities of colour.