Curatorial Program Cited as Path to Increase Museum Staff Diversity

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has published an “Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey” citing its undergraduate curatorial fellowship pilot program as an effort toward making “the country’s art museums more representative of the growing diversity of the American people.” CSRC director Chon A. Noriega helped establish this program, which has now completed its first year of implementation, through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). LACMA and four other major museums (Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) are participating in the program, which is helping to open up the museum “as a potential workplace to students from historically underrepresented minorities and other undergraduates committed to diversifying our cultural organizations.” The report can be found below.