Black Arts Admin B*tch Podcast

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD!!!! Quanice sits down with her podcast bestie Joshua Henry Jenkins @joshjenks (formerly of the Art Accordingly Podcast) for a convo to discuss underpaid nonprofit employees, creating an arts administration greenbook, and rest.

Links:

• The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art is looking for a new director - again: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/09/smithsonian-national-museum-african-art-ngaire-blankenberg-resigned
• Behind the Red Tape: Struggles are Real for Nonprofit Workers: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/behind-the-red-tape-struggles-are-real-for-underpaid-nonprofit-workers/?fbclid=IwAR1A6OdTKLVSojK8rwk99SWbxYAdt5DTskCIoYEDNzvOC9fJc_gkkykoEEA

WE BYKE FOR A NEW SEASON, BAABIES!! Quanice sits down with Joey Reyes for a long-awaited convo to discuss the article "BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era", the in-fighting happening in the philanthropic sector, and why it's important to have a village around you.

Links:

• BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era - https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-call-of-leadership-now-bipoc-leaders-in-a-syndemic-era/
• Call & Response Episode 2: Bandz To Make Them Dance (Memphis Music Initiative) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4L_f7HPcHs
• We Disagree on Many Things but We Speak with One Voice in Support of Philanthropic Pluralism - https://www.philanthropy.com/article/we-disagree-on-many-things-but-we-speak-with-one-voice-in-support-of-philanthropic-pluralism
• Philanthropy's Equivalent of 'All Lives Matter' by Vu Le - https://nonprofitaf.com/2023/04/philanthropys-equivalent-of-all-lives-matter/

Quanice sits down with Karla Estela Rivera (@kestelarivera) to discuss issues happening in the Chicago arts sector, partnering with Lin-Manuela Miranda (@lin_manuel), voyeurism in field, and making sure folks of the global majority protect our necks!

Links:

• Steppenwolf Theatre’s New Arts and Education Center is a ‘love letter to Chicago’ - https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/31/22744983/steppenwolf-theatre-new-education-art-center-and-theater-building
• A Chicago museum 'fired' its volunteers. Why diversity consultants say it was the right move - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/23/chicago-art-institute-backlash-dismantling-docent-program-equity/6136632001/
• ‘Hamilton’ Creator Partners With Posse Foundation to Mentor Arts Students - https://www.wsj.com/articles/hamilton-creator-partners-with-posse-foundation-to-mentor-arts-students-11618536600
• Directors of Inclusion in Theatre Need to be more than Symbolic Positions - https://www.onstageblog.com/editorials/2021/10/20/directors-of-inclusion-in-theatre?fbclid=IwAR1WCH3aZ8WNnK9giIf4aD5ye8xUirABZix0fnndn7hJlCtKAstzsmk-UXg
• Making Space or Taking Space Report - https://buildingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MakingOrTakingSpace.pdf

Quanice sits down with Tellie Simpson (@agirlinamuseumworld) to discuss grown ass adults destroying students’ art because they felt “attacked”, archiving family history, and “taking our talents back to south beach”....all while sippin' wine!

Links:
Groundswell School Incident - https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-ps-295-school-mural-diversity-trashed-20210805-zqg2badfnfav5iudv2m4degy6i-story.html

Robyne’s follow up message - https://myemail.constantcontact.com/The-Mural-Lives-On---.html?soid=1101372656050&aid=yFDPUofSrn0

“Guarding the Art” at the BMA - https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/bma-security-guards-will-curate-an-exhibit-next-year/

Nikole Hannah-Johns Statement to Whypipo: https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-decision-to-decline-tenure-offer-at-university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill-and-to-accept-knight-chair-appointment-at-howard-university/

Quanice sits down with Ashraf Hasham, Funding Programs Manager and Youth Arts Manager for the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, to discuss accountability, breaking down barriers in a government arts agency, and the great resignation…all while sipping wine.

Links:

Anti-Black Discrimination and Toxic Workplaces Are All Too Common in the Arts Administration Field https://news.artnet.com/opinion/paul-rucker-opinion-1973043

What It’s Really Like to Work at the California Arts Council https://hyperallergic.com/610784/what-its-really-like-to-work-at-the-california-arts-council/

Record Label Chief, Theater Director Among Biden's National Council On The Arts Picks https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009781879/record-label-chief-theater-director-among-bidens-national-council-of-the-arts-pi

Every new play on Broadway this fall is by a Black playwright https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/every-new-play-on-broadway-this-fall-is-by-a-black-playwright-070221

Lin Manuel Miranda Apologises For The Afro-Latinx Erasure Of In The Heights https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/06/10526204/in-the-heights-colourism-casting-controversy

Thanks to our sponsor Blk Girl Big World Sips Wine Club https://www.blkgirlbigworld.com/sips

Quanice sits down with Jen Deerinwater, Founding Executive Director of Crushing Colonialism, to discuss repatriation, capitalism, unity amongst the global majority, and burning this motherf*cker down…all while sipping wine.

Links:
Jen Deerinwater's Linktree -https://linktr.ee/CrushingColonialism

Skeletons in the Closet: the Smithsonian’s Native American Remains and the NMAI -https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/05/21/skeletons-closet-smithsonian%E2%80%99s-native-american-remains-and-founding-national-museum

UC Berkeley Has Only Returned 20% of Its Native American Artifacts and Remains - https://hyperallergic.com/571779/uc-berkeley-hearst-museum-repatriation-nagpra

Canadian museums asked to return First Nation ancestral remains and burial items - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-museums-association-repatriate-remains-burial-items-canada-1.6033591

How residential schools in Canada robbed Indigenous children of their identity and lives – video - https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/jul/01/residential-schools-canada-indigenous-childrens-lives-video

U.S. to Search Former Native American Schools for Children’s Remains - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/indigenous-children-indian-civilization-act-1819.html

Mellon Announces $1.5 Million ‘Generation Now’ Partnership for BIPOC Playwrights -https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/06/30/mellon-announces-1-5-million-generation-now-partnership-for-bipoc-playwrights/

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2018 990 from Guidestar - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BgDqiJSA9oj6W7u-ddscF4Ar9PW4zznK/view?usp=sharing

Special thanks go to our sponsor Blk Girl Big Worlds Sips Wine Club - https://blkgirlbigworld.com/sips

Quanice sits down with Lisa Gold from the Asian American Arts Alliance to discuss divide and conquer tactics within the global majority, seeing one another, and creating your own support line. We need to come together now more than ever!

Quanice sits down with Garrett McQueen (@garrettmcqueen) from the Trilloquy Podcast to discuss his work being a content creator, being Black in the classical music world, and why we need to need to strive for freedom and liberation.

Links:

• Sound of 13
• GarrettMcQueen.com
• Trilloquy
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra rebukes flutist over social media posts pushing conspiracy theories on vaccines, election
• 'God Damn America': Tulsa massacre opera drops Black composer over lyrics*

*Episode Note: Since the recording of this episode, the piece "They Still Want to Kill Us" has been picked up by presenting organizations around the country. An aria film was also released.

Quanice sits down with Courtney Harge, Chief Executive Officer of Of/By/For All to discuss revolutionary joy, the harm and gaslighting that occurs in arts and culture institutions, and self care…all while not sipping wine because I had to study afterward. Also, apparently what Quanice says on the podcast is racist to white people… THE CAUCASITY! PHEW CHILE We might have to make an unapologetic episode about that one!

Links:

Second City fires its night staff and looks to outsource, causing a painful rift. And it loses its president. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-second-city-fires-bartenders-20210421-advhckr24zh33nhlouwi4rwnjy-story.html

Marion Grey’s post about "Slavery Saturday" at Juilliard https://www.instagram.com/tv/CN8QyPVDb-Y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Special thanks goes to our sponsor Blk Girl Big Worlds Sips Wine Club https://blkgirlbigworld.com/sips

In this unreleased Art Accordingly interview, Quanice and Joshua speak to Dasha Kelly Hamilton from Still Waters Collective about self efficacy, how we view ourselves as creatives, and survive as someone who is drive by mission in an ecosystem that says they are mission-drive but isn't. PHEW CHILE.