Fair Art 2030 Pledge

A pledge project and collective for equality and inclusion in the art world.

A recent survey of the permanent collections of 18 prominent U.S. art museums found that the represented artists are 87% male and 85% white.

"Diversity of artists in major U.S. museums," Public Library of Science
Just 11% of all acquisitions and 14% of exhibitions at 26 prominent U.S. museums over the past decade were of work by female artists.

"Museums Claim They’re Paying More Attention to Female Artists. That’s an Illusion." artnet News
Research in the US shows that 84% of museum leadership, curators, educators and conservators are white.

Research into the composition of museum staff conducted in 2018 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka S+R, the AAMD and the AAM .
Only 13.7% of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America are women.

"The 4 Glass Ceilings: How Women Artists Get Stiffed at Every Stage of Their Careers," artnet News
Over the last decade, just 2.4% of all acquisitions and gifts and 7.6% of all exhibitions at 30 prominent American museums have been of work by African American artists

A joint investigation conducted in 2018 by In Other Words and artnet News.

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