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Art + Museum Transparency Newsletter #3 -- Stats and Initial Strategies (April 2020)
It has been an unprecedentedly tough month in health, employment, and so many other ways. We wanted to share something that might be of some use. (We realize that there are few words, if any, that…
Art + Museum Transparency Newsletter #2 (March 2020)
We had a very different newsletter draft written and ready to go two weeks ago and then the world changed for us all. As we said on Twitter this past weekend, we’ve all heard the saying, “Don’t mourn, organize.” Yet, it’s impossible not to feel…
Art + Museum Transparency Newsletter #1 (February 2020)
This newsletter is for anyone who cares about the pressing issues in arts organizations and museums today--whether you are a staffer, a manager, an administrator, an artist, an adjunct in the humanities, or even a director of an organization, this is for you.
2019: The Year According to Art + Museum Transparency (Walker Reader, December 2019)
We are a non-hierarchical group of arts and museum workers who are friends and colleagues, and who founded Art + Museum Transparency at the end of May 2019 when we shared our salaries with each other over drinks. That night, we created an open, editable spreadsheet on Google Docs that contained our salaries at current and past positions…
A 20/20 Vision for Art + Museum Transparency for 2020: Sharing, Analyzing, Moving Forward (Medium, December 2019)
It’s almost the end of the year, and so it’s a good time to reflect on the momentum we’ve all built around worker solidarity in arts and museums this year and plan for 2020.
If Culture Sector Employers Want Equality, Post Salary and Benefits With Job Descriptions (Hyperallergic, October 2019)
Salary transparency isn’t always sexy. But it’s of fundamental importance to achieving greater equity in arts institutions. Now that the pay and benefits of current art and museum employees are online and easily accessible…
Art + Museum Transparency: Labor Reporting (Medium, July 2019)
We are the group of art workers and museum workers who initiated the crowd-sourced salary and internship spreadsheets named in yesterday’s New York Times article (“Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder”). We are happy to see the labor activism within museums and arts organizations…
Culture Workers, Just Say No to All Unpaid Internships (ArtNews, July 2019)
Just over a month ago, we started a Google spreadsheet that invited art workers to add their salaries, job titles, and workplaces, as well as additional information as they saw fit. The data was shaped collaboratively and in real time…
Mission statements and paychecks: let's put our money where our mouths are (The Art Newspaper, June 2019)
A call for concrete action on art world salaries: If we stand for inclusivity, equity, transparency, accountability, diversity and all the other under-interrogated and overused buzzwords our mission statements claim we do, then we must put our money where our mouths are.