TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Exclusion in the Arts
T2 - The Dynamics of Social and Economic Mobility Across Three Decades of Undergraduate Arts Alumni in the United States
AU - Whitaker, Amy
AU - Wolniak, Gregory C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts; the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), in particular Angela Miller, Sally Gaskill, Jennifer Novak-Leonard, and Lee Ann Scotto Adams; and fellow SNAAP researchers, including Jennifer Lena, Rachel Skaggs, Alexandre Frenette, Hannah Grannemann, and others. We thank The Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research for permission to use the SNAAP data. In addition, we thank David Kirkland, Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Linda Essig, Jason White, Alison Gerber, Joanna Woronkowicz, Doug Noonan, Cheryl Finley, Wendy Woon, Chris Barker, editors Ronald Beghetto and Yong Zhao, and the anonymous reviewers. We received a fellowship award of $5,000 (total, $2,500 per author) from Indiana University when we were selected as Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) fellows. Indiana University houses the SNAAP database.
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - This chapter presents a broad interdisciplinary literature review linking artists’ economic precarity and need for but resistance to entrepreneurial skills, alongside colonial histories, structural racism, and hierarchies of taste in arts organizations. These themes are complemented empirically by engaging data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) to demonstrate indicators of attrition and privilege of arts alumni relative to their participation in the arts workforce. Meaningfully different associations across racial/ethnic groups are uncovered, showing structural exclusion of Black arts alumni in particular, in addition to other intersectional dynamics. This chapter underscores the importance of addressing student debt, the potential of creative pedagogies across the curriculum, and the need for imaginative approaches to renewed public funding of art and artists.
AB - This chapter presents a broad interdisciplinary literature review linking artists’ economic precarity and need for but resistance to entrepreneurial skills, alongside colonial histories, structural racism, and hierarchies of taste in arts organizations. These themes are complemented empirically by engaging data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) to demonstrate indicators of attrition and privilege of arts alumni relative to their participation in the arts workforce. Meaningfully different associations across racial/ethnic groups are uncovered, showing structural exclusion of Black arts alumni in particular, in addition to other intersectional dynamics. This chapter underscores the importance of addressing student debt, the potential of creative pedagogies across the curriculum, and the need for imaginative approaches to renewed public funding of art and artists.
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U2 - 10.3102/0091732X221089947
DO - 10.3102/0091732X221089947
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128749328
VL - 46
SP - 198
EP - 228
JO - Review of Research in Education
JF - Review of Research in Education
SN - 0091-732X
IS - 1
ER -