Creative Equity Toolkit

The Creative Equity Toolkit has links to hundreds of practical resources, inspiring case studies and important research on increasing diversity in the arts.

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Article

How the Art of Social Practice Is Changing the World, One Row House at a Time

Artist Rick Lowe transformed derelict houses over 20 years into a thriving, African American cultural hub that preserves the community's roots. It is both a work of art and an act of community organising.

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  • 12 minute
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  • Published: 2014
    Country: USA

  • Author: Carolina A Miranda

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screenshot of the Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) comic strip

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) fact sheet and comic

This fact sheet and comic is designed to provide education about copyright issues and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights in an accessible way. It is aimed at artists and audiences alike.

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  • 15 minute
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  • Published: 2016
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Artists in the Black

Research

Information Technology and Indigenous Communities: The Ara Irititja Project: Past, Present, Future

Ara Irititja is a collaborative digital archive project which aims to store and repatriate culturally and historically significant materials to Anangu people. This research presents some of the work done by Ara Irititja which brings together community and non-Indigenous collaborators to successfully deliver its intended outcomes to the community’s satisfaction. Comes from Chapter 9 (Pages 151-171) of the book Information Technology and Indigenous Communities.

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  • 60 minute
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  • Published: 2013
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Edited by Lyndon Ormond-Parker, Aaron Corn, Cressida Fforde, Kazuko Obata and Sandy O’Sullivan

Article

Jeanine Leane: Other people’s stories

Wiradjuri author Jeanine Leane discusses cultural appropriation in literature, remarking that the appropriation of Indigenous voices in writing is “not empathy,” which emerges from knowing First Nations histories, people and stories,” but ”stealing someone else’s story, someone else’s voice”.

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  • 20 minute
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  • Published: 2016
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Jeanine Leane

Case Study

Temiar weavers sit on the floor with Gerimis member with woven baskets (Photo credit: Sharon Yap)

Malaysia's Gerimis

Gerimis works with Malaysia’s indigenous Orang Asli communities to showcase their histories and traditions through the lens of arts and culture. As a collective of primarily non–Orang Asli members, Gerimis uses five principles as guideposts:
* Building allyship
* Free, prior and informed consent
* Credit
* Compensation
* Accuracy and respect

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  • 5.5 minute
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  • Author: Adeline Chua, with Ronnie Bahari and Wendi Sia, Creative Equity Toolkit

Article

Megan Evans: Owning her Colonial Past

This interview with settler artist Megan Evans, whose work explores privilege, oppression and the impacts of colonisation on First Nations people, and brings attention to the way that the violence and oppression of whiteness is layered. She questions the meaning of collaboration with Indigenous artists and Community, since it implies coming together on “equal” terms and overlooks the power held by non-Indigenous actors and entities in this dynamic.

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  • 20 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Megan Evans