Artists at Studio in a School Consider Joining a Union
The artists and some staff at the organization, which teaches art to school students, would join workers at other New York cultural institutions who have joined unions in recent years.
A “Studio in a School” art installation at Christie s in New York City in 2017. The organization’s instructors teach drawing, painting and print making to about 30,000 students.Credit.Patti McConville/Alamy
March 9, 2021
Workers and artists at Studio in a School, a nonprofit group founded more than 40 years ago to teach art in public schools, have organized an effort to join a union.
How Museums Use and Misuse Corporate Consultants as a Bandaid to Address Diversity and Solve Their Biggest Problems
Missteps and voided promises are bringing new scrutiny to for-profit strategies in the nonprofit field.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
The task should have been simple for an executive search firm like m/Oppenheim Associates. The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields was paying the company to help bring a new director through its doors. But the job listing on the search firm’s website created an explosive controversy when it expressly requested that applicants help attract not only a more diverse crowd, but also maintain its “traditional, core, white art audience.”
Museum management’s appeal delays union vote result
The vote was held this month, but the Portland Museum of Art has asked the National Labor Relations Board to review its decision allowing gallery ambassadors to decide whether to unionize.
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The ballots of a Dec. 22 unionization vote by Portland Museum of Art gallery ambassadors have been temporarily impounded until the National Labor Relations Board acts on management’s request for a review.
Brianna Soukup / Portland Press Herald
PORTLAND The result of a unionization vote this month by 23 Portland Museum of Art employees remains unknown pending a museum management appeal to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).