The Changing Face of Museum Leadership Panel

Over the last several years, driven in part by reports released by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Americans for the Arts, a growing awareness has emerged among museums and arts organizations that the cultural sector remains less diverse than the whole of American society. The focus on being more diverse and equitable is not a public relations issue, but an essential part of making museums welcoming cultural and social spaces. In an event moderated by Deborah Cullen-Morales of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the next generation of art museum leaders offered a series of provocations to ASU leadership and respected museum directors at the forefront of leading efforts to change the sector. The ASU-LACMA: The Changing Face of Museum Leadership event at the ASU California Center in Los Angeles was organized by the ASU-LACMA Master’s Fellowship Program in art history, a partnership launched in 2018 by ASU and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the goal to culturally diversify the leadership of museums.