Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Info Session for AAM’s Fellowship Program for Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion: Video and Transcript

By Joseph O'Neill

Transcript Tonya Matthews, Director of Inclusion: So, we want to get started with a bit of logistics and overview. My name is Dr. Tonya Matthews. I am the Director of Inclusion here at the American Alliance of Museums. I am supported this …
American Alliance of Museums Publishes Toolkit for Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace

By American Alliance of Museums

For Immediate Release Arlington, VA – March 11, 2019 – The American Alliance of Museums and the LGBTQ Alliance’s Task Force for Transgender Inclusion today released Gender Transition and Transgender Inclusion in the Museum Workplace: A …
Four Things I Learned When I Started Thinking about Museum Accessibility

By Ryan Saglio

I first started working with the Disabilities community in 2011. Over the years, I’ve worked with individuals of all ages in their homes, at their jobs, and in their communities. The state I live in, Rhode Island, has had to …
A Place at the Table: Developing diversity and next-generation leaders

By Lynn Miller

In 2018, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio named Asmaa Walton, a Detroit native with a master’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, its first KeyBank Museum Fellow. The announcement brought a four-year process of development, …
A Totally Inclusive Museum

By Cecile Shellman

At the conclusion of a long and productive workshop about inclusion, a museum employee asked: ”How will we know when we have reached our goal of being fully inclusive?” It was a great question, but I’m not sure anyone liked the answer. …
Museums Should Take Notes from Black Panther and Beyoncé: How to engage visitors in difficult discussions using popular media

By Stacey Ingram Kaleh

These days, when museums make it into popular conversation it’s a cause for celebration in the community. As we face increasing competition for leisure time and new challenges in audience engagement due to emerging technologies and …
The Power of a Paid Internship: Creating pathways to careers in museums

By Makeba Clay

In 2015, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation issued a report on diversity in art museums that reinforced what is obvious to anyone working in or affiliated with the industry: non-Hispanic white men dominate leadership positions, and there is a …
Latest Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles

By Cecelia Walls

New York, NY, January 28, 2019—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and Ithaka S+R announced today the results of its second …
A New Way to See: Looking at museums through the eyes of the blind

By Samantha Silverberg

Let’s talk about accessibility. In the twenty-first century era of inclusivity, museums are working towards making the visitor experience a more positive and unique one, as part of efforts to increase the number of visitors to museums. In …
A conversation with Dr. Tonya Matthews, AAM’s interim director of inclusion

By American Alliance of Museums

Dr. Tonya Matthews is a national thought-leader in museum engagement, free-choice learning, and equity and inclusion in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). As interim director of inclusion, she will lead AAM’s internal and …