Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts

This book includes evidence-based accounts of inequities in the arts as well as a focus on systems that perpetuate and resolve inequities in this context – a topic of wide interest to researchers and practitioners in arts and culture. The chapters in this volume include both the empirical rigor and a diversity of disciplinary perspectives that makes it an essential piece of scholarship in the arts and culture. The volume is ideal for students and scholars studying areas such as sociology of the arts, cultural economics, and arts management. This collection is the result of a series the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab at the Center for Cultural Affairs at Indiana University hosted in summer 2022 on the topic of “Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts” co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Doris Duke Foundation. Joanna Woronkowicz is Associate Professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA. She is a cultural economist who conducts research on artist labor markets and cultural facilities investments. She joined O’Neill in 2013, and prior to that served as the senior research officer at the National Endowment for the Arts. Woronkowicz is co-founder and faculty director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and co-director of the Arts, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab. Douglas Noonan is the Paul H. O’Neill Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA. His research focuses on a variety of policy and economics issues related to the cultural affairs, urban environments, neighborhood dynamics, and quality-of-life.