Sustaining DEI in Art Programming When It’s Under Attack

Arimeta Diop is a writer, editor, and artist based in Brooklyn. A longtime Vanity Fair staff member, they have contributed to Untitled Art Fair, Vogue, New York Magazine, Highsnobiety among other titles where they primarily cover art and culture.

Randall Suffolk is the Director of the High Museum of Art. Since his arrival in 2015, he has championed a renewed commitment to community engagement, placing emphasis on collaboration, inclusivity and access. To support these objectives, the museum has reduced admission fees, greatly diversified its exhibition schedule, added more than 4,000 objects to the collection, worked collaboratively with nearly 30 community partners annually, and developed a variety of new programming to serve its increasingly diverse, multi-generational audience. In 2018, Suffolk led a sweeping reinstallation of the museum’s collection galleries. He has been recognized as one of the Art World’s Most Influential People (The Observer); one of the Top 200 Industry Influencers of Georgia’s Creative Economy (Georgia Entertainment Creative Economy Journal); named one of Atlanta’s 25 Most Influential People (The Atlantan Magazine) and perennially included among The Atlanta 500: Our City’s Most Powerful Leaders (Atlanta Magazine).

Jonathan Carver Moore is the founder and director of Jonathan Carver Moore, a San Francisco based contemporary art gallery that specializes in working with emerging and established artists who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and women in San Francisco. Operating through a Black queer lens, Moore is dedicated to advocating for the arts and creative community. Both Jonathan and the gallery have been featured in Cultured Magazine, The New York Times, Essence Magazine, The Observer, Art News, The San Francisco Chronicle, Travel + Leisure and more. Moore has written for Frieze Magazine and Juxtapoz. Moore's gallery has participated in art fairs globally including; Untitled, EXPO CHICAGO, FOG Design+Art, Cape Town Art Fair and more. Moore is the Development Chair at arts education non-profit Root Division, serves on the advisory board at Black [Space] Residency, and Recology.