Decolonising your reading list

This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies. It provides access to materials on anti-racist, postcolonial and decolonising art histories and is meant for anyone conducting research in those areas in art history or in visual or spatial culture. It is also meant to support academics in making meaningful change in their departments, their teaching and their research.

An essay by Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price exploring how art historians, curators, collectors, museum directors, artists and writers can respond to the call to decolonize art history.

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Workshops held in 2021 by the UK organisation Artquest on how artists practice can help with the work of decolonising UK museums and collections

The very best artistic and cultural work embraces inclusion and diversity, tapping into the true potential of our nation’s artistic and cultural talent. We want arts and cultural organisations to fully reflect the communities they serve, and have partnered with The Clear Company to develop this toolkit, which will help foster inclusive workplaces and support you in recruiting and retaining diverse talent.

Are organisations doing more than posting a 'black square'? In May 2021, Inc Arts sent out a survey to 100 Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio organisations (NPOs), and the 16 organisations directly funded by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). These organisations were committed to public displays of diversity, more diverse programming, and ethnically diverse appointments to boards. However, there was little change in the ethnic diversity of wider staff.

Asian Arts Agency is a dynamic arts development agency based in Bristol that develops, promotes and supports international contemporary and traditional South Asian music and arts.

Arts Against Racism – Create, don’t Discriminate
We are shaping a national anti-racist strategy for arts and culture and we're inviting you to join us. We are developing reporting mechanisms, codes of conduct, a way to celebrate best practice, and more.

We're a network for people of colour who work in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and the heritage sector. ​Museum Detox champions fair representation and the inclusion of cultural, intellectual, and creative contributions from POCs. We challenge and work to deconstruct systems of inequality that exist to enable a sector where the workforce and audience is reflective of the UK’s 21st century population.

NBAA works across art forms to create productions that challenge perceptions of Black culture and that celebrate the many dimensions of Black heritage. NBAA aims to respond to and initiate work without prejudice and with due regard to geography, origin, gender, age, marital and economic status, sexual orientation, disability, education, cultural heritage and background.

RESHAPE is a research and development project that brings together arts organisations from the Europe and the South Mediterranean to jointly create innovative organisational models and reflect on concrete answers to crucial challenges related to the production, distribution and presentation of contemporary art practices. The aim of RESHAPE is to imagine an alternative to the European arts ecosystem by rethinking its instruments and collaborative models, placing them in line with artistic and social innovation and the principles of fairness, solidarity, geographic balance and sustainability.