Art school with $50 million COVID deficit is hiring 10 professors to teach ‘race and decolonization’

Art school with $50 million COVID deficit is hiring 10 professors to teach ‘race and decolonization’

• 75 percent of acquisitions now dedicated to ‘underrepresented artists’
  

"...Artnet News reports that the Rhode Island School of Design is hiring at least 10 new faculty members “specializing in race, decolonization, and cultural representation” in less than a year.

President Rosanne Somerson told the wire service for art news that RISD, which is affiliated with Brown University, “must be proactively anti-racist in principle and practice, and make consequential, scaled changes throughout the institution.” 

It’s not enough to “simply combat racism where we find it.”...Read all.