Sentences with phrase «by women and people of color»

«My colleagues (past and present) and I continually think about the relationship between the contemporary and historical parts of the museum's collection and exhibitions, and how they relate to the city of Baltimore,» said Kristen Hileman, the BMA's Senior Contemporary Curator since 2009, who curated Crosby's solo exhibition — a show planned years in advance of the museum's recent series of shows by women and people of color.

The good news is that Whitney curators, led by Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs Donna De Salvo, have systematically sought out gaps in the museum's permanent collection and attempted to fill in missing contributors to American art history since the late 19th century, with particular attention paid to works by women and people of color.

In this case, the charity is Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to getting more students into computer science careers and increasing participation by women and people of color.

Hollywood has only grown more dependent on these big blockbusters, which are rarely ever directed by women and people of color, in part because studios keep rewarding filmmakers — like Singer — known for erratic workplace behavior or worse.

The Los Angeles - based director is also the founder of Array, a community - based distribution collective dedicated to the amplification of films by women and people of color.

As some of the tweets above note, despite incredible films made this year by women and people of color, the prestigious Best Director category is populated solely by white men.

This is a question of point - of - view, and the fact is, films about and by women and people of color, regardless of quality, are still relegated to the back pages.

What's the total amount of assets under management by women and people of color?

Not exact matches

The lawsuit filed by Ingrid Avendano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described themselves as Latina software engineers, says that Uber's compensation and other practices discriminate against women and people of color.

With help from Citi Community Development, Village Capital recently hosted three pitch competitions, each designed to show venture capitalists and other investors that they really are missing out by not investing in women and people of color.

In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

These reformers insist that the Federal Reserve will be more publicly accountable if its governing boards, which are currently dominated by white men from the financial and corporate sectors, included more women, people of color as well as labor and consumer voices.

«Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 hour by 2018 in New York City is a historic victory that will have a profound impact on the lives of nearly one and a half million working families — largely women and people of color,» said Deborah Axt, co-executive director of Make the Road New York, in a statement.

It will provide mentoring, training and technical assistance to help small businesses — particularly those owned by women, veterans or people of color — win contracts from the Defense Department and General Services Administration.

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson said: «The Emerging Managers bill intends to bring our State procurement process into the 21st Century by removing barriers that have historically prevented women and persons of color from reaching full economic parity with respect to contracting opportunities in this State.

Women, people of color, and people with disabilities, who responded to the survey, reported being stigmatized by their gender, race, or their physical condition in addition to their LGBT status.

Those numbers are up from last year, when less than 40 % films were directed by women and less than 30 % by people of color.

Organizers say that 43 % of the competition films in this year's festival were directed by women and that 38 % were directed by people of color.

Mercedes Cooper ARRAY Mercedes Cooper is the Director of Marketing at ARRAY, an LA - based arts collective dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women founded in 2010 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

The festival's 2016 edition will unspool 42 world premieres, of which 43 % are directed by women and 38 % by people of color.

He noted the fund's «50 - 50 by 2020» goal, which means equality for «people that are underrepresented, women, and people of color, people in the LGBT community» by the year 2020.

Let's talk about the vast art trove we've lost by not giving women, people of color, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ + community opportunities — let's talk about that loss for all of us in art,» she continued.

According to the Academy, between 2015 and 2017, the number of women invited into AMPAS has increased by 359 percent, while the number of people of color has jumped 331 percent across the same frame.

It boasted impressive stats related to diversity, with 42 percent of the films directed by women and 40 percent by people of color.

Franco started by asserting his support for the fight for both reform in workplace culture and greater representation of «women, people of color, people in the LGBT community» in the industry, which earned him some tentative audience applause.

(One additional note on Best Supporting Actress to segue into surprises: Mary J. Blige is not only the first person ever nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song in the same year, but the first actor Oscar - nominated for a film directed by a woman of color, Mudbound's Dee Rees.)

Through step - by - step strategies and powerful vignettes, Davis explores the impact inclusive EdTech conversations can have for teachers, students, women, and people of color.

By asking organizations to develop leadership plans for talented women and people of color, managers and leadership teams actually begin to walk the walk of diversity and inclusion, resulting in more creativity, greater innovation, and better results.

We strive to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers, including women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBT authors.

Last year's Nintendo bundle supported the charity Code.org, a nonprofit organization that seeks to increase diversity in the field of computer science by bringing in women and people of color.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

Art, AIDS, America Curated by Rock Hushka And Jonnathan Katz One Gallery, LA TACOMA, WA Zuckerman Museum, Georgia Bronx Museum, NY National Tour 2015 Only representation of women of color living with HIV / persons born with HIV virus

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

Thomas's work both depends on this rich context and smartly subverts it by claiming its own space within a tradition that has largely excluded, demeaned, and caricatured persons of color and women.

In 2015, Dugan founded the Strange Fire Artist Collective to highlight work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists.

The question remains, how is it that so many artists are still so marginalized by race, ethnicity, and even gender when many celebrity artists are women and people of color?

[5] This exhibitions recontextualization of contemporary Bay Area art (by featured people of color and women), and showcased some of the following artists; Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Rolando Castellon, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Frank Day, Rupert Garcia, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Frank LaPena, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Ralph Maradiaga, José Montoya, Manuel Neri, Mary Lovelace O'Neil, Darryl Sapien, Raymond Saunders, James Suzuki, Horace Washington, Al Wong, René Yañez, Leo Valledor, and many more.

Brown also reacts against the appropriation of certain bodies and histories by artists, including those of women and people of color.

«Historically, artworks by women, people of color, LGBTQ, and other marginalized people have been underrepresented in almost every art institution's exhibitions and collection,» said Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose solo show at the BMA, Counterparts, closed in March.

A collective of independent audio shows hosted by people of color, women, and queer identified hosts.

For us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Sackler Center by talking about what a lot of people perceive as a failure, feels really pertinent to the conversations going on now between women of color and white women.

According to a major report on art industry sexism that ARTnews published earlier this year, only seven percent of the 410 works from MoMA's permanent collection currently on display are by women, and even fewer by people of color.

Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation, founded by Faith Ringgold and her daughters Michele Wallace and Barbara Wallace, protested the lack of women and people of color in the Whitney Museum's influential Annual Exhibition in Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation, founded by Faith Ringgold and her daughters Michele Wallace and Barbara Wallace, protested the lack of women and people of color in the Whitney Museum's influential Annual Exhibition in women and people of color in the Whitney Museum's influential Annual Exhibition in 1970.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.