Creative Equity Toolkit

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Museums as Sites for Social Action

This comprehensive guide outlines the theory and tools for practice towards creating greater equity within the museum field.

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: USA

  • Author: MASS Action, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Article

picture of JASMINE MCGINNIS JOHNSON, PHD sitting outside wrapped in shawl, in an outdoor area, there is grass to her left and an open door and a table and chairs that are empty behind her

Participatory Grantmaking Aims to Dismantle Power Imbalances between Funders and Communities

An interview with Urban Institute fellow Jasmine Johnson about participatory grant making. It provides insights into some of these knowledge gaps through a qualitative study of 10 funders in small, midsize, and large cities across the USA. Johnson gives key takeaways from her study in this interview, three things to consider before adopting participatory grant making and the challenges of using this funding model.

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  • 14 minute
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  • Published: 2021
    Country: USA

  • Author: Gillian Gaynair

Case Study

A family belonging to the Agta tribe of Lake Buhi welcomes the delegation from the Kamarin Art Gallery for the distribution of materials to be used for sculptures

Preserving indigenous heritage and showcasing the arts of the Agta people

The Agtas are the aboriginal Filipinos who have been driven out of their lands to live on mountain tops and far-flung lakeshores. The Savage Mind Bookshop and its offshoot, Kamarin Art Gallery, have reached out to the Agta people of Lake Buhi to provide a means for them to create art, preserve their language and history, and ensure that their heritage and culture are not erased by the country’s rapid industrialisation.

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  • 7 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Philippines

  • Author: Danton Remoto, Creative Equity Toolkit

Article

Publicly funded arts: Equity, collective thinking and societal transformation

In this article, Rachel Gnagniko asks: How can we promote fairness, spark collective imagination and work towards a more just and resilient future together?

"If the arts sector is to remain relevant, it must move beyond surface-level commitments and embrace a deeper, more transformative vision."

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  • 6 minute
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  • Published: 2025
    Country: UK

  • Author: Rachel Gnagniko

Research

Racism and social commentary in Australian mainstream media

This report is based on a media monitoring project by All Together Now.

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  • 6 minute
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  • Published: 2021
    Country: Australia

  • Author: All Together Now

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Respecting Cultures: Working with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community and Aboriginal Artists

Respecting Cultures provides a specifically Tasmanian perspective as a companion text to Cultures – Protocols for Producing Indigenous Arts. Together, these publications promote cultural harmony and goodwill through best practice methods of interaction and negotiation. Respecting Cultures is also an important tool in managing the ethical use of Tasmanian Aboriginal culture and arts.

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  • 30 minute
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  • Published: 2009
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Arts Tasmania