The State of Diversity Among Leadership Roles Within Canada’s Largest Arts and Culture Institutions

This Emerald Insight journal issue by Charlie Wall-Andrews, Rochelle Wijesingha, Wendy Cukier, and Owais Lightwala aims to explore whether the membership of Canada’s largest arts and cultural organizations well-reflect the country’s diversity and examine the state of diversity among leadership roles within these institutions when viewed through a geographical, gender, racial, and intersectional lens. The authors found that there is a disconnect between Canada’s diversity and the leadership representation among the largest arts and culture organizations.

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Inside, Outside, Beyond: Artistic Leadership for Contradictory Times

Recommended reading: This Bluecoat initiative articulates the need for support of existing + emerging arts leaders and sets out “a simple framework for artistic leadership in the future, one which can be used to develop ways of working, organisations and networks which can be adaptive and resilient and which can produce the kind of rich cultural value desired.” Bluecoat is Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts and the UK's oldest arts centre.

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