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Our Role at Arizona Arts
Five Principles That Guide Our Work
- Endemic anti-blackness is a commitment to centering race, anti-black racism, and the relationship between the arts and white supremacy rooted in anti-blackness.
- Justice as a process recognizes that racial justice is not an endpoint, but instead is a life-long process carried out in innumerable everyday actions and decisions.
- Non-exploitation means that we will not ask BIPOC people to do work without compensating them equitably for their labor.
- Accountability requires that racial justice be linked to outcomes and impact, not good will or best intentions.
- Timelessness holds that racism is endemic, enduring, and evolving and, thus, rejects any treatment of racism as “timely” or “on trend.”
Origin
Racial Justice Studio Founders
Chelsea Farrar
Curator of Community Engagement at University of Arizona Museum of Art
Amelia (Amy) Kraehe, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Equity in the Arts at Arizona Arts and Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education at University of Arizona College of Fine Arts
gloria wilson, ph.d.
Associate Professor of Art Education in the Depart of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University (former Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona)
Current Leadership
In 2021, Racial Justice Studio (RJS) became an initiative of the Division of Arizona Arts, and Sama Alshaibi, Regent Professor and Professor of Photography, Video and Imaging in the School of Art, joined as an inaugural RJS Fellow in 2022 and RJS Director in 2023-2024.
Leadership Team
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Location
1103 E. 2nd St
Tucson, AZ 85719
Richard A. Harvill Building
Room 126
University of Arizona
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