Arts organisations on BLM

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1		Arts organisations on BLM						@jillionaire for inspo
2		This document is a work in progress. If there is an institution you would like to highlight/ an update that needs to be made or you would like to start working on it please get in touch through artspreadsheet@gmail.com
3			Old templates
4		This document highlights the actions taken by art/cultural/heritage entities with regards to the Black Lives Matter movement. The aim of this document is to demand action from these organisations beyond performative statements of solidarity. We are tracking how these entities will push to create anti-racist spaces internally and as public-reaching organisations. If you are passionate about this cause you should email these institutions using the above templates and demand action.
5				28th December 2020 - present			10th June - 30th August 2020			31st May- 9th June 2020
6		Entity	Type	Have they followed up on their statement?	Has anything changed?	Notes	Have they made a statement?	Was the statement clear about actions they will take?	Notes	Have they made a statement?	Was the statement clear about actions they will take?	Have they committed £?	Notes

7		London
8	1	Arts Council England	Public body	NO						YES	NO	NO	CEO Darren Henley just refers to their 10 year strategy which in itself is vague, and writes about making a more diverse workforce which has been said before.
9	2	Art Fund	Art Charity	NO						NO (Hashtags and black squares don't count)	NO	NO
10	3	Art UK	Art charity	NO			New Statement	See Notes	Focused on what they're already doing. Representation in collection/accessing more black writers/ hiring anonymity / State school internships with "increased representation in the programme for young BAME people"	YES	NO	NO
11	4	Barbican Centre	Art centre	YES	Place Holder. Equality and Inclusion Strategy will be updated in 2021	"We have worked with an external agency and are taking forward the recommendations and learnings from that process, and formed a special taskforce made up of eight members of staff from across the Barbican"	New Statement	See Notes	6 vague commitments. However they accept “we know we need to go further and to publish specific actions and deadlines for change.” Setting up taskforce which is “independently chaired by an external expert in this field who will help develop the brief and methodology.” Action plan to come from this.	YES	NO	NO
12	5	Battersea Arts Centre	Art centre	NO						YES	NO	NO
13	6	British Museum	Museum	NO						YES	NO	NO	Full statement
14	7	Camden Art Centre	Art centre	NO			"We are currently in consultation with staff and trustees to ensure our next steps are fully considered and meaningful, and that they will support and accelerate our commitment to become more diverse and more representative across all aspects of our organisation. We aim to make these actions public next week through our website and will send you a link."			YES	NO	NO
15	8	Chisenhale Gallery	Gallery	NO			YES	YES. Unconcious bias-training, full workforce transparency, "researching how we spend our money ethically on everything from office supplies to external suppliers, with a view to not contributing financially to companies that condone racist, sexist or anti-trans behaviour. We are updating our Ethics Policy to make our anti-racist position more explicit.", create and support content centering nuanced voices of black experiences, supporting anti-racist charities,	Until 31 July, all income raised from the sales of three of our Chisenhale Editions will be split between The Black Curriculum @theblackcurriculum Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund and Black LGBTQIA+ Therapy Fund.	YES	(push to create anti-racist spaces)	NO	We believe in artists and we know culture has a vital role to play in unifying communities. We pledge and also appeal to peer organisations across our community to do the work necessary to create actively anti-racist spaces.'
16	9	Create London	Arts organisation	NO			After pressure from a number of ex staff/artists/community members they made this pledge: https://createlondon.org/our-anti-racism-pledge/	Vaguely.		YES	to come...	£18,000 for an external consultant - which they are yet to appoint. They are also part of the Hackney Council Windrush sculpture commission - which will see 2 new sculptures by black artists. It is unclear why they - an arts organisation led by white management, with 1 black member of staff in a producer role - are the organisation to lead this project.	There is a group of current/ex staff, artists and community members currently putting pressure on them to denounce their involvement in racist gentrification and racist internal structural practices. They have recently announced that the chair to their board John Studinzki has retired as chair - we can only think that this has been rushed through in response to BLM as he has very suspicious connections/history.
17	10	Cubitt	Gallery	NO						YES	statement released by current Curatorial Fellows, languid hands, rather than the whole organisation	NO
18	11	Design Museum	Museum	NO						YES	NO	NO
19	12	Dulwich Picture Gallery	Gallery	NO						NO	NO	NO
20	13	Frieze Art Fair	Art Fair	NO						YES	NO	NO	Encouraged followers to donate so potentially made donation to @CampaignZero, @BlackVisionsCollective, @ReclaimtheBlock, National Bail Fund Network ??
21	14	Future City	cultural place-maker	NO			YES	"measurable actions" coming soon, no date.	Ex-employee commentary addressing poor and racist treatment of BAME staff	YES	NO	NO
22	15	FVU	Arts organisation	NO			Statement	unconcious bias training		NO	NO	NO
23	16	Gasworks	Gallery	NO						Basic twitter statement	NO	NO
24	17	Hauser and Wirth	Gallery	NO						YES	Donation. no mention of internal action.	YES. Black Lives Matter (no amount given)
25	18	Hayward Gallery	Gallery				See Southbank	See Southbank	See Southbank	NO	NO	NO
26	19	Horniman Museum	Museum	NO						Statement	NO	NO	a related post about Frederick Horniman's colonial past
27	20	ICA	Gallery	NO		In June Ifeanyi Awachie called ICA out for using her independent work to virtue signal the org	NO	NO	The organisation is posting daily resources, commentary, guest articles, related to BLM, but no specific organisational statement
28	21	Jerwood Arts	Gallery / Trust	NO			NO	NO	2019 strategc plan
29	22	Koestler Trust	Support org	NO			NO	NO
30	23	London Transport Museum	Museum	NO					No follow up from initial instagram post	YES	NO	NO	After receiving criticism on their Instagram post replied with statement in notes
31	24	Museum of London	Museum	NO			NO	NO		YES- but specifically relating to a statue of Robert Milligan Statement	YES	NO	a twitter thread relating to a statue of Robert Milligan was published on 9th of June, and the Museum is committed to removing the statue and leaving protest placards in place.
32	25	Museum of the Home	Museum	NO			YES		Statement centred around removal of Robert Geffrye statue. Board decided not to remove statue even though when opened to public, response was in favour of removal.
33	26	The National Gallery	Gallery							NO	NO	NO
34	27	National Portrait Gallery	Gallery	NO		Gallery closed until 2023	"I would like to ensure we properly address each of the points you raise, which will involve colleagues across the Gallery and so if you don’t mind, we will come back to you with a fuller response later this week."	Action plan to be published in the future and regularly updated. Updated their equality and diversity policy	Date of statement unclear	YES	NO	NO
35	28	A New Direction	Non-profit	YES (October 2020 published review)	"We have updated our 2020-21 Equality and Inclusion Action Plan to include achieving the actions that arose from the BEE review for the remainder of this financial year, and the 2021-22 Equality and Inclusion Action Plan will be developed in March 2021"					Statement	YES	NO	the statement is more about what others can do than about internal changes, it is also a blog post from an individual staff member, rather than an institutional statement
36	29	Old Royal Naval College	Heritage Site	NO	still have not commented on Black Lives Matter		NO	NO		NO	NO	NO
37	30	Peckham Platform	Gallery / Social Practice	NO						Statement	NO	NO
38	31	PEER	Gallery	NO						YES	YES	NO	some actions listed, although they could be more specific
39	32	The Photographers Gallery	Gallery	YES (22nd December)	Outlined intial commitments which are vague. To be accessed in future.					YES	NO	NO
40	33	Royal Academy of Arts	Art institution	YES (December)						YES (after deleting a post on black Tuesday)	NO	NO
41	34	Royal Museums Greenwich	Museum	NO			NO	NO		NO	NO	NO	an instagram post featuring a quote by Oludah Equiano, on June 4th requested feedback: "We must recognize we are part of the problem. We commit to actioning change to combat inequality. Please share your thoughts on how we can become more representative by emailing learning@rmg.co.uk"
42	35	Saatchi Gallery	Gallery	NO						NO (Hashtags and black squares don't count)	NO	NO
43	36	Science Museum	Museum	NO			Statement	New textiles project, publish equity framework this summer, focus on Open For All blog	Acknowledged hiring issues but claim increasing diversity is tough in current climate. Coronavirus causing recruitment freezing.
44	37	Serpentine Galleries	Gallery							YES	NO	NO
45	38	The Showroom	Gallery							YES	NO	NO	An instagram post on 1st of June in memory of George Floyd, but no institutional statement.
46	39	Somerset House	Art Centre				New statement	anti-racism task force/support all staff and Trustees to engage in anti-racist learning by providing them with the necessary literature and discussion space/ appointing an independent consultant/ build on our existing mandatory unconscious bias training/looking for a historian to update the history of Somerset House and its role in Britain’s colonial past/ Anti-racism will now be a standing agenda item monthly for management and departmental meetings		YES	NO	NO
47	40	Southbank Centre	Art Centre				New statement	To come...	short term- "make anti-racism central to recovery from coronavirus"	NO (Hashtags and black squares don't count)	NO	NO
48	41	South London Gallery	Gallery							YES	NO	NO
49	42	Southwark Park Galleries	Gallery				NO	NO		NO	NO	NO
50	43	Studio Voltaire	Gallery							NO	NO	NO
51	44	TACO	Art Space/Non-profit							NO	NO	NO
52	45	Tate	Museum				New Statement	internal taskforce/action plan in dialogue with colleagues, which will be published on our website this summer, with progress reports shared publicly at 6-month intervals/ Redoubling our commitments to diversifying our workforce, especially at the highest levels, and supporting ethnic minority career progression. This will include publishing updated statistics to measure progress/introducing mandatory anti-racism training alongside existing unconscious-bias and structural racism training/Commissioning a guide to ally-ship from recognised BAME leader(s)/finding new opportunities to amplify the voices and creativity of Black artists.		YES	NO	NO
53	46	Two Temple Place	Historical Site							NO (Hashtags and black squares don't count)	NO	NO
54	47	V&A	Museum							YES	(Increased public programming)	NO	we are planning more public programming directly connected to global histories – looking to work more closely with external partners, artists and source communities and I am delighted this week that our new Curator of African and African Diasporic Fashion, has joined the V&A with a specific focus looking beyond our predominantly Euro-centric collections.'
55	48	Wallace Collection	Museum							YES	NO	NO
56	49	Wellcome Collection	Museum							YES	(will confront structural inequality)	NO	Dismantling structural inequality is difficult and uncomfortable work that we will neither shy away from nor hide. We are committed to anti-racism and equity. Unless we are part of the solution, we remain the problem.#MuseumsAreNotNeutral'
57	50	Whitechapel Gallery	Gallery							YES	(stated they are 'actively participating')	NO	We are actively participating and encouraging you to spread awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement by supporting, donating, listening, and learning.'
58	51	William Morris Gallery	Gallery				Statement	Champion BAME artists and designers through headline exhibitions. Provide more public programming drawing links between Morris and international craft movements. Offer free curator-led guided tours for BAME community groups. Advertise employment and volunteering opportunities in BAME media and arts networks. work with our diverse communities and creative sector to inform and shape the public programme at the William Morris Gallery as part the wider culture and heritage offer		NO (See notes)	NO	NO	Are happy to post Kehinde Wiley's work that they are currently exhibiting and quote him without acknowledging the current poltical climate - "This exhibition seeks to use the language of the decorative to reconcile blackness, gender, and a beautiful and terrible past.' — Kehinde Wiley"
59	52	1-54 Contemp. African Art Fair	Art Fair							YES	stronger hiring policy, more regular platform at our fairs and on our social media channels to those artists and curators who are addressing issues around these specific topics.⁣	initial donation of $10,000
60		South Coast
61	1	ONCA	Gallery							YES	NO	NO	Created list of resources
62	2	Royal Pavilion and Museum	Museum				Statement	See notes	Decolonising Museums working group has been in place since March, attempting to widen it. No plan of action mentioned.	NO	NO	NO
63	3	Fabrica	Gallery							YES	NO	NO	mention @theblackcurriculum, potentially donated?
64	4	Towner Gallery	Gallery				Second Statement	Setting up task force to have plan of action by end of year/ open forum discussions to adress racism	We will publish this initial action plan before the end of the year and this group will remain as a key part of our charity governance structure, continuing to develop Towner’s role in our community.⁠⠀	NO (Hashtags and black squares don't count)	NO	NO
65		East Anglia
66	1	Firstsite (Colchester)	Gallery				Statement	Have comissioned a poster by Elsa James, have linked resources on their webpage and invited people to 'join the conversation'. No discussion on internal changes.	Email communications@firstsite.uk to be a part of the conversation
67	2	Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (UEA, Norwich)	Gallery				Statement	No
68		Kent
69	1	Turner Contemporary	Gallery				NO	NO		Statement	NO	NO
70	2	Open School East	Alternative Art School				NO	NO
71		Cambridgeshire
72	1	Wysing	Arts Centre				NO	NO		Statement	NO	NO
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