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A Charlotte, North Carolina, arts group is doubling down after apologizing for originally funding 8 white, Western Eurocentric organizations with unrestricted dollars to support their operations, including the Charlotte Symphony and Children s Theatre of Charlotte.
Krista Terrell, acting president of Charlotte s Arts & Science Council, said the group s Cultural Equity Report showed that due to ASC’s inequitable grant making practices, nine institutions each received more in operating support than all ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) organizations combined. While I knew the facts in the report were startling, I never thought I would experience so intimately the uncomfortableness, the defensiveness, and the scaredness of white people reacting to the unvarnished truth, Terrell, who is Black, wrote in a blog post last week.
Charlotte s Arts & Science Council has released its first cultural equity report.
Charlotte s Arts & Science Council is apologizing for past policies that it says have excluded people and communities of color from mainstream arts and cultural funding. In its first Cultural Equity Report, the organization details those inequities and outlines changes it has made in an effort to shift from what has been culture for some to its goal of Culture for All.
The ASC grew out of the Charlotte Arts Fund, which was founded in 1958 to fund eight organizations, including the symphony, the Mint Museum, what s now Discovery Place Nature, and other music and theater groups. The ASC took its current form in 1975. At one time, the ASC s board members were mostly white and lived in just two ZIP codes, according to the report out Tuesday.