Antonio C. Cuyler: “In this article, I explore three research questions: What role should foundations play in achieving creative justice? What behaviors do foundations practice that might undermine their efforts toward achieving creative justice? And what approaches to funding creative justice should foundations consider? … But what exactly is creative justice, and how does it work?” – Grantmakers in the Arts

“The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) is a city department working within a large bureaucracy, but we can use that to our advantage, and we have. We are small and nimble, and we are finding that we can effect change through small efforts that yield positive results without entering the political playing field. We are working toward dismantling institutional racism from inside, one decision at a time, but also through new programs and initiatives.” – Grantmakers in the Arts

The orchestra’s Conducting Freeman Fellowship program, overseen by music director Mei-Ann Chen and part of its larger Project Inclusion, brings two conducting fellows and two auditors to the city for five long weekends through the year “to work with Chen and to be mentored by conductors, board leaders, and orchestra managers … with the goal of mastering a variety of on-podium and off-podium skills that the Sinfonietta identifies as necessary for an orchestra leader to succeed in the 21st century.” – Symphony Magazine