Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts

This book includes evidence-based accounts of inequities in the arts as well as a focus on systems that perpetuate and resolve inequities in this context – a topic of wide interest to researchers and practitioners in arts and culture. The chapters in this volume include both the empirical rigor and a diversity of disciplinary perspectives that makes it an essential piece of scholarship in the arts and culture. The volume is ideal for students and scholars studying areas such as sociology of the arts, cultural economics, and arts management. This collection is the result of a series the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab at the Center for Cultural Affairs at Indiana University hosted in summer 2022 on the topic of “Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts” co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Doris Duke Foundation.

CHAPTER 1: SOME ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INEQUITIES IN THE ARTS.- CHAPTER 2: CULTURAL POLICY OF THE OPPRESSED: AN ANALYSIS OF COLONIALISM, EXPANSIONISM, AND IMPERIALISM IN CULTURAL POLICY SCHOLARSHIP.- CHAPTER 3: HOW DO WE EXPLAIN INEQUALITY WITHIN ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL OCCUPATIONS? THE PROBLEM OF DOWNWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY.- CHAPTER 4: STEPPING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM: CONNECTING CONTEXTUAL FACTORS OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND ARTS ALUMNI’S ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS.- CHAPTER 5: ACTIVISTS VERSUS GATEKEEPERS? GALLERY REPRESENTATION, REPUTATIONAL MARKERS, AND THE STRUCTURE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS IN THE US CONTEMPORARY ARTWORLD.-CHAPTER 6: THE ROLE OF ARTS INCUBATORS IN ADDRESSING DIGITAL DIVIDE INEQUITIES.- CHAPTER 7: INEQUITIES IN THE CULTURAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: INSIGHTS FROM TWO RECENT STUDIES.- CHAPTER 8: STATE ARTS ORGANIZATION GRANTS AND REGIONAL EQUALITY: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND GRANTS DECISIONS.- CHAPTER 9: COMMUNITY CULTURE TO REDUCE INEQUALITY IN CULTURAL PARTICIPATION? POTENTIALITIES AND PITFALLS OF BARCELONA CIVIC CENTERS NETWORK.- CHAPTER 10: ART, CRAFT, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: MAPPING INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE CREATIVE COMMONS.- CHAPTER 11: THE PURSUIT OF EQUALITY THROUGH PUBLIC FUNDING FOR THE ARTS.

Joanna Woronkowicz is Associate Professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA. She is a cultural economist who conducts research on artist labor markets and cultural facilities investments. She joined O’Neill in 2013, and prior to that served as the senior research officer at the National Endowment for the Arts. Woronkowicz is co-founder and faculty director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and co-director of the Arts, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab. 

Douglas Noonan is the Paul H. O’Neill Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA. His research focuses on a variety of policy and economics issues related to the cultural affairs, urban environments, neighborhood dynamics, and quality-of-life.