Manchester-based RISE have just published a report on the impediments & discriminations suffered by working class artists & art workers.... which includes this brilliant summation from one interviewee:

'Its not a meritocracy, its a mirrortocracy'.

Commissioners & institutions hand out money to those who look (and speak/act) like themselves, reinforcing the class dimension of the UK arts scene!

Its more than this but this a big factor!

#arts #UK #class
h/t Art Monthly
https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf

Manchester-based RISE have just published a report on the impediments & discriminations suffered by working class artists & art workers.... which includes this brilliant summation from one interviewee:

'Its not a meritocracy, its a mirrortocracy'.

Commissioners & institutions hand out money to those who look (and speak/act) like themselves, reinforcing the class dimension of the UK arts scene!

Its more than this but this a big factor!

#arts #UK #class
h/t Art Monthly
https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf

Art by my late mother-in-law, Jo Ann Smith, shown at New York's Pleasant Valley Library in February. #art #artist #arting #makingart #creating #creativity #motherinlaw #mother #mothers #class #classroom #school #publicschool #publicschools #teacher #teaching #taught #color #colorful #pleasantvalley #newyork #newyorkstate #poughkeepsie #hometown #husband #desk #desks #schooldesk #schooldesks

Art by my late mother-in-law, Jo Ann Smith, shown at New York's Pleasant Valley Library in February. #art #artist #arting #makingart #creating #creativity #motherinlaw #mother #mothers #class #classroom #school #publicschool #publicschools #teacher #teaching #taught #color #colorful #pleasantvalley #newyork #newyorkstate #poughkeepsie #hometown #husband #desk #desks #schooldesk #schooldesks