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A Slap Upside the Head: Attending to power, privilege, and cultural context in panel process

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By Anne Mulgrave
| americansforthearts.org
This post is part of our Excellence and Equity in Arts for Change blog salon. At a recent panel discussion on cultural appropriation, hosted by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (where I am the Manager of Grants and Accessibility), the discussion with about 40 people began with writer Brian Broome telling us a story about how he learned about cultural appropriation: All the Black folks [here] in the audience, we know it when we see it. We learn it from our mamas. I’ll give you an example.
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Excellence and Equity in Arts for Change

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By Anne Mulgrave, Brett Batterson, Savannah Barrett, Victor Rubin
| americansforthearts.org
As grantmakers, we distribute scarce resources, so I worry when panels cannot have an open, honest discussion about important issues like cultural appropriation and how that might result in how we mete out funds. If tokenism limits the ability of people of color to impact grant decisions, or panel dynamics shut down discussions about uncomfortable issues, we are not doing our jobs.
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