Quanice sits down with Ashraf Hasham, Funding Programs Manager and Youth Arts Manager for the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, to discuss accountability, breaking down barriers in a government arts agency, and the great resignation…all while sipping wine. 

Links:

Anti-Black Discrimination and Toxic Workplaces Are All Too Common in the Arts Administration Field https://news.artnet.com/opinion/paul-rucker-opinion-1973043

What It’s Really Like to Work at the California Arts Council https://hyperallergic.com/610784/what-its-really-like-to-work-at-the-california-arts-council/

Record Label Chief, Theater Director Among Biden's National Council On The Arts Picks https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009781879/record-label-chief-theater-director-among-bidens-national-council-of-the-arts-pi

Every new play on Broadway this fall is by a Black playwright https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/every-new-play-on-broadway-this-fall-is-by-a-black-playwright-070221

Lin Manuel Miranda Apologises For The Afro-Latinx Erasure Of In The Heights https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/06/10526204/in-the-heights-colourism-casting-controversy

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