Online Webinar, Free Registration

The Art Fund and AAMC Foundation are honored to produce Beyond Statements Revisited series, a follow-up to the 2020 three-part webinar. Individual sessions each seek to update, investigate, unpack, contextualize and disseminate where the arts community is in 2023.  

This program was developed in continuity with the speakers from all three of the sessions in the 2020 series, with gratitude towards their engagement in helping to shape these conversations, and is presented by the Art Fund and AAMC Foundation.

Wednesdays June 14, 21, 28, 11:00 AM EST / 16:00 BST

Registering will automatically register you for all three sessions.

Part I
Wednesday, June 14, 11am ET

Starting where we began in 2020, this first session will advance the conversation on structural racism by joining voices in the US and UK to explore how museums and art organizations have advanced, or not, their efforts towards tangible actions to address racial diversity, equity, and inclusive environments.

Monica O Montgomery, Cultural Consultant + Independent Curator, Co-Founder Museum Hue Moderator

Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director, Iniva, Speaker

Sandra Shakespeare, Museum and Heritage Consultant, Speaker

Charlotte Holmes, National Trust, Speaker

Part II
Wednesday, June 21, 11am ET

Providing foreground to this session, a context around the DEAIB roles will launch the conversation into what DEAIB leaders need, seek, and see towards being able to have an impact, and openly sharing the place of the burden imposed often on the individuals in these roles. 

Tanya Odom, Program Director, Equity and Inclusion, Walton Family Foundation, Moderator

Ali Jafarey, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead (workforce) in the People and Change Team, V&A, Speaker

Reyahn King, Consultant, Facilitator and Executive Coach, Speaker

Virajita Singh, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Speaker

Part III
Wednesday, June 28, 11am ET

Since our 2020 program, several new studies, surveys, and analyses have investigated the current state of the field, shared transparently their findings, and sought to help generate through their findings ways forward for a diverse, inclusive, and accessible visual arts community. 

Rachael Browning, Deputy Director of Programme and Policy, Art Fund, Moderator

Errol Francis, Artistic Director and CEO, Culture&, Speaker

Mia Locks, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Museums Moving Forward, Speaker

susan pui san lok, Artist and Director, UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, Speaker

Registering will automatically register you for all three sessions.

Meet the Speakers