ANTI-RACIST AGENDA

COMMITMENT STATEMENT

Clay Art Center believes that the arts can touch and enrich lives and play a significant role in social change. We believe that Black Lives Matter, and we will work towards ensuring that diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion are a part of our core values. We will offer stimulating and culturally diverse programs in our studio practice, exhibitions and education to better serve diverse communities. We will engage with these communities and institutions to understand, evaluate and ensure how we can best succeed at achieving diversity, accessibility and inclusion. We will actively work to ensure that we have the resources to accomplish these objectives.

CLAY ART CENTER WILL

ASPIRE TO

A—Actively work to be an anti-racist organization. We will bring about awareness,

S—Social change and equality by

P—Promoting inclusion throughout CAC operations. We will:

I—Include it in all programming, education and exhibitions, 

R—Recruiting of board, staff, teachers and artists. We will

E—Engage with the Black community and institutions to define and ensure success.

Sculpture by CAC Artist Earlene Cox