Child participates in Brand Out with C1, an event hosted by Company One Theatre
In 2021, Mass Cultural Council launched a three-year Racial Equity Plan outlining some of the internal and external steps we will take to support and encourage an anti-racist cultural sector in the Commonwealth. As part of the plan, the Agency has committed to sharing our progress on this work each quarter:
June-August 2022 Racial Equity and Access Work Highlights
What’s Next – Disability Equity Planning
Training – developing an ongoing Disability/Access curriculum for staff and a high-level Disability/Access training resource list for the Council
Engaging with stakeholders from the communities we are seeking to serve and recruiting an internal task force to develop a Disability Equity Action Plan that aligns with the Racial Equity Action Plan.
Internal
In alignment of the goals of the Racial Equity Plan, and other requirements the Director of People and Culture conducted a good faith, reasonable self-evaluation of Mass Cultural Council’s pay practices and completed the Pay Equity Act Assessment ahead of schedule.
Diversity Highlights From FY22 Programs
Panel demographics
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of FY22 Cultural Facilities Fund panelists self-identified as a person of color.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of reviewers in the FY22 Artist Fellowship for Drawing & Printmaking, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting cycle self-identified as BIPOC.
