Posted on 10/23/2021 4:52:31 PM PDT by rickmichaels
The Art Institute of Chicago fired more than 150 volunteers and suspended its decades-old docent program after the famed museum hired a woke consulting firm that advised the cultural institution to ditch the 'wealthy white' guides and prioritize 'equity and diversity.'
Even worse, the mostly elderly docents, who are well-versed on the the exhibits at nearly 150-year-old museum on Lake Michigan, were terminated by email on Sept 3 because it wanted to 'rebuild our program from the ground up.'
The museum - featured prominently in the 1986 hit film Ferris Beuller's Day Off - hired The Equity Project, a Colorado-based consulting firm, which found the program was outdated and would often skew towards wealthy white women and had too many barriers preventing people of color from entering the program.
'Sometimes equity requires taking bold steps and actions,' said Equity Project executive producer Monica Williams. 'You really have to dismantle and disrupt the systems that have been designed to hold some up and others out.'
The Equity Project was founded in response to Donald Trump winning 2016 Presidential Election.
'Today, the Equity Project brings transformative work to organizations across the globe,' the company's bio claims. 'Their expertise lies in creating spaces filled with grace for people to show up as they are, and developing actionable strategies to help organizations advance their equity efforts.'
Just last year, 186 workers - about 30 percent of museum staff - demanded 'transparency' and 'racial equity' amid layoffs.
Art Institute Chairman Robert Levy wrote an op-ed defending the decision and said that the plan to do so had been in the works for 12 years.
'Critical self-reflection and participatory, recuperative action is required if we are to remain relevant to the changing audiences seeking connection to art,' he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yeah, gang thugs flock to art museums. They should hire some crips and bloods to collect the fees.
Another woke institution that I will not be visiting! Of course it is Chicago, so that doubles my no-go factor!
Go Woke
Go Broke
I anticipate that this museum is going to fall on bad economic times; probably have lots of theft from their diverse new volunteers; and I have zero sympathy
If any of them are dems they should be sure to vote for dems again. S/O
This is why we can’t have nice things.
And replace them with more sensitive works like this one:
But....
I don't see them doing that any time soon.
// Their expertise lies in creating spaces filled with grace for people to show up as they are… //
…unless they are Whites. In that case they don’t deserve grace or safe spaces, and certainly cannot be allowed to show up as they are.
Hope it tanks them.
Diversity is cool when white people are excluded.
“dis here be Georgey Soorats ‘afternoon at the park’ or sum sh*t”
So does this mean “Mush Mouth” from the Fat Albert Gang will be in charge of museum tours now?
Let it fail and close down.
True! And on the other side of that coin ...
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of gray-haired liberal cat ladies.
Enjoy the wokeness of it all, gals!
RACISM is alive and well in the USA!
Perhaps The Art Institute of Chicago can celebrate it’s Culture and “rebuilding our program from the ground up” with a good old fashioned Chicago Drive By Shooting, ... pretty much every weekend of the year.
how many White people does the Equity Project employ?
These are volunteers.
Any other demographic had every opportunity to also decide to volunteer.
But they didn’t. They didn’t want to.
Diversity to these progressive , leftist means no whites.
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