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With the intentional focus on rising arts leaders of color, we believe that the solution to overcoming racial inequity in the field begins by addressing the pipeline. CultivArt is a free, interactive, online resource hub for people of the global majority interested in exploring arts administration or seeking to further their organizational and management skills, develop a career trajectory, and establish a community within the arts and culture sector.

Have a resource, job posting, fellowship, article, or something you'd like to share? Submit it to CultivArt!

Focus Areas

self-assessment

coaching

sector overview

professional development

networking
&
mentorship

education

certification

job search
assistance

personal branding

community connections

Jaime Sharp (she/they)

Founding Director 

About the Project

From 2015 to 2019, the National Endowment for the Arts found that White [non-Latinx/e] people made up 74.5% of management roles in performing arts organizations and 79.3% of management roles in visual arts and museums despite only accounting for 62.2% of management roles in the United States workforce.

 

As a 2023 Turn the Spotlight Fellow, CultivArt founding director Jaime Sharp was tasked with curating a project to support equity within the arts. The question that drives her personal mission is how might we diversify arts leadership to challenge structural exclusion. In the expedition to address this obstacle, one of the core structures to revise is the pipeline – which can be altered by increasing education and access for people of color. 

With the guidance of her mentors, Afa Dworkin, and Melissa Wegner, the three brought the idea of an online resource hub for arts leaders of color to fruition. Over the past year, Jaime has collected, organized, and disseminated information on the knowledge instilled in them as an emerging professional and information to help reinforce a triumphant career in arts leadership.

*For this project, people of color or people of the global majority are defined as: African Diaspora (Black/African Descent, African American, African Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx/e), First Nations/Native American/Indigenous/Indigena (the Americas and Caribbean), Oceania/Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian, SSWANA (South Asian, Southwest Asian, North African), ESEA (East Asian, Southeast Asian)

CultivArt is generously supported by the
2024 Sphinx MPower Artist Grant and
the 2024 Social Impact Grant from The Pride Network

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