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Archived since: Apr, 2024
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In 2015 Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS) was launched to reframe the national arts conversation to lift up demographic change as a cultural asset and learn from leaders in communities on the ground who are at the forefront of cultural equity and racial justice. ArtChangeUS was envisioned as a national platform, a collaborative laboratory, and a five- year, time-bound project. Founder Roberta Uno pointed to the then extreme right of American politics, warning: “New Nativist opposition to the growing majority of Americans promotes a xenophobia that imagines an authentic America, ignoring the history of Native Americans, slavery, and immigration to nostalgically construct a ‘real America.’†She asserted that the shift to an aggregate majority of people of color was not the threat promulgated by the Tea Party right but the possibility of a shared American future and incipient pluralistic democracy. Responding to this call were ArtChangeUS’ 35 Core Partners, artists, cultural organizers, and scholars who came together to imagine an entity that could be a model of cultural equity in practice. They began with two simple questions, “How can we be resources to each other?†and “What can we do together that we cannot do individually to advance social justice?â€
Archived since: Apr, 2024
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The Cultural New Deal was birthed in the early months of the Covid pandemic (2020) when author Jeff Chang of Race Forward called upon a group of arts and social justice peers, including ArtChangeUS founder Roberta Uno. As the arts sector was beginning to discuss “relief and recovery,†they found themselves tapped by historically white arts organizations to give input at different tables that persist in marginalizing Black, Indigenous, Native American, Latinx, Chicanx, Arab, Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, Southeast Asian, East Asian, Pacific Islander, and other people of color. Part call to action, part arts manifesto, and part road map, the Call was spearheaded by ArtChangeUS, the Center for Cultural Power, First Peoples Fund, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Race Forward, and Sipp Culture. It was written in 2020 by Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, MarÃa López De León, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Lea Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb, in consultation with Ananya Chatterjea, Ananya Dance Theatre; Sonya Childress, Perspective Fund; Pamela J. Peters; Randy Reinholz, Native Voices; Lula and Erwin Washington and Tamica Washington-Miller, Lula Washington Dance Theatre; Dyani White Hawk; and Carrie Mae Weems. It was translated by Yahaira Carrillo Rosales.
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