Examining Cultural Equity in the Arts

In the summer of 2017 ACI conducted Phase I of a baseline, mixed-methods inductive attitudinal study on the “cultural equity gap”. This study focused on influencers who hold power in the arts and culture landscape, consisting of focus groups and a national quantitative study. The study was supported by the SSRC Dissertation Development Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, with funds from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Findings were released January 29, 2018.