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PARTHENON serves as a living repository in the form of a Blog, hosting conversations that reframe visual arts education as a question of equity, access, and narrative power– and seeks to surface how inequities operate, who is affected, what initiatives exist, and why it matters.
We envision a future where visual arts educational professional development opportunities are available to any student, regardless of race, geography, or socioeconomic status. Where knowledge sharing serves as a bridge into the arts ecosystem for those who may not have the privilege of a support system with the knowledge to foster creative interests.
Each One, Teach One
Visual Arts Curriculum and Career Development Equity
Cultural Responsibility
Cultural Belonging
Community Agency
Across the United States, access to sustained, high-quality visual arts education is deeply shaped by race, income, and geography. Low-income Black and Brown communities are disproportionately impacted by arts program cuts, underfunding, and structural segregation within public education systems. These disparities influence not only who gains artistic skills, but whose creative identities are nurtured, recognized, and supported over time. By pairing stakeholder commentary with contextual data and research, PARTHENON aims to make visible the structural conditions shaping arts education while resisting the abstraction of lived experience into statistics alone.
“Persons of color represent 68% of NYC’s population but account for only 34% of the creative workforce.“
The project takes the form of a digital platform, titled “PARTHENON”, that centers stakeholder perspectives, including visual arts educators, arts administrators, cultural workers, and community members.
PARTHENON 