A new national study from the University of Maryland’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management is chock full of mini-case studies and insights about arts organizations of color. The study examined the nation’s 30 largest African American arts groups by budget size (including theater, dance, and museums) and the 30 largest Latino nonprofits in the arts, then compared them to twenty of the largest “blue chip” mainstream arts groups.
The report found “the majority [of the institutions of people of color] are plagued by chronic financial difficulties that place severe limits on what can be produced, how much can be produced, how many artists are trained, and how many people are served.”
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