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

10 Emerging Artists Share What Systemic Equality Means to Them

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) worked with 10 visual artists to create images of what achieving Systemic Equality could look like — a vision of a more inclusive and equitable future for America.

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  • 14 minute
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  • Published: 2021
    Country: USA

  • Author: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Toolkit

Hands holding signs that say Australian High School Anti-Racism Kit

Anti-Racism Kit

The Anti-Racism Kit is a resource designed for high school students, by high school students.

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  • 60 minute
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  • Published: 2021
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Sabina Patawaran, Hue

Programs and Initiatives

Art Against Racism

Art Against Racism is a virtual arts exhibition which aims to lift up the tremendous array of creative works made in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In doing so, project organizers hope that the exhibition will serve as an archive of the national artistic response to this historic moment.

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  • 60 minute
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  • Published: 2024
    Country: USA

  • Author: Art Against Racism

Article

Art, Whiteness, and Empire

Curator Dr. Kelli Morgan explores the themes of colonialism and whiteness in encyclopedic art museums. Morgan proposes a reinstallation framework that includes showcasing vital works that can anchor a reinstall about colonialism, highlighting portraits of actual colonizers, and using art to illustrate the history of global economy and colonialism.

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  • 6 minute
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  • Published: 2023
    Country: USA

  • Author: Dr. Kelli Morgan

Film

Ask yourself the hard questions

In this video, a group of Australians discuss and reflect on their experiences of racism.

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  • 3 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Australian Human Rights Commission

Article

Screenshot from the Skin Deep website showing an illustration of a blonde woman peeling off a black skin from her face

Black Face

Overview of the history and contemporary expression of black face from the UK and the US.

'Popular contemporary ways of displaying blackface include: darkening your skin and especially your face; wearing clothes that you assume all black people wear and in a fashion that is mocking (think ‘ghetto’ or ‘thug’); throwing up obscure gang signs, or what you assume are gang signs, in order to ‘act black’; and depicting blackness in all its complexities as a caricature.'

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: UK

  • Author: Edna Mohamed, Skin Deep