1、1Mellon Foundation Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2022HeadlineArt Museum Staff Demographic Survey 20222Mellon Foundation Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2022HeadlineArt Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2022Liam Sweeney Deirdre Harkins Joanna Dressel3Mellon Foundation Art Museum Staff Demogra

2、phic Survey 2022Art museums aspire to play a singular social role for the publicthey commit to both preserving and stewarding collections of art for current and future generations,while also serving as a space for learning,interacting,and exploring.Art museums are crucial third places for curated ex

3、periences with beauty,creativity,scholarship,and history.Such spaces have the ability to strengthen communities,provide sublime or contemplative experiences,and provoke the imagination.But these lofty aims bring with them responsibilitiesnamely,the inclusion of diverse perspectives that can allow in

4、stitutions to effectively reflect and welcome everyone who might benefit from such a project.By this measure,art museums have a history of failure.We know that,with respect to audiences,people of color are less likely to feel comfortable in museums than their White peers.We know that historical coll

5、ecting practices have skewed toward White men.And,through the Mellon Foundation and Ithaka S+Rs research into the demographics of art museum staff,we know the field has struggled to hire a diverse workforce,particularly within roles that are tasked with narrating cultural histories.With the 2022 cyc

6、le of the Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey,the Mellon Foundation and Ithaka S+R have found steady progress has been made since we began collecting this data in 2014 for the first 2015 Art Museum Demographic Survey.However,people of color still fill under 25 percent of certain important positions,