The Course
Think of this as your equity-in-practice toolkit!
By the end of Practicing Equity, you’ll be prepared to advance inclusive, community-centered approaches within various cultural landscapes including galleries and museums. Whether you’re a curator, artist, student, or cultural worker, this learning experience moves beyond theory into actionable strategies—helping you design equitable exhibitions, build meaningful community relationships, and advocate for structural change. You’ll leave ready to apply these principles in real-world contexts, fostering environments where dialogue, accountability, and justice are central to the arts.
What You Will Learn
When I developed Practicing Equity, my goal was to build a learning environment grounded in the actionable insights of Black feminist theory—an approach that treats care, accountability, and community knowledge as essential components of creative, curatorial, and archival practice. This course is structured to help you translate those frameworks into practical strategies: how to design inclusive art spaces, how to build ethical relationships with communities, and how to steward collections in ways that resist extractive, colonial, and institutionally racist norms.
Course modules move intentionally from foundational Black feminist concepts into concrete applications, ensuring that you develop not only a critical understanding of inequity within the arts, but also the tools to intervene through your own practice. The sequence of lessons builds gradually, ensuring that participants at all levels can develop a grounded, nuanced understanding of what equitable cultural-work looks like in action.
By the end of the course, you will not only sharpen your ability to analyze institutions through an equity lens but also strengthen your capacity to create community-centered, anti-racist, and socially accountable exhibitions and projects. With interactive discussions, applied exercises, and reflective activities woven throughout, you’ll find Practicing Equity to be an empowering, practice-forward resource—one intended to support your growth as a cultural worker committed to meaningful change.
Curriculum
Your Instructor
With over ten years of experience as a curator, educator, and activist in the cultural sector, Dr. Kelli Morgan is widely known as a leader in progressive museum practice whose work develops and advances anti-racist approaches to art curation, fundraising, and community engagement. She regularly trains staff and emerging curators at institutions worldwide. She is a leading and influential voice in championing museum practices that are safer for and more responsible to individuals and communities of color.
As the facilitator of Practicing Equity, Dr. Morgan brings a wealth of knowledge and an unwavering commitment to the transformation of art spaces into more reflective and inclusive environments. Her passion for education is rooted in the belief that people have the potential to serve as powerful platforms for anti-racist advocacy and societal change. In each session, she aims to empower her students with the tools and perspectives necessary to effect positive change in the ways art is preserved, presented, and interpreted, ensuring that diverse voices and narratives are always honored.
Inclusive
"I appreciate how Dr. Morgan's teaching style is a combination of mentor/teacher and we could talk to each other as people and not in the typical student professor relationship. The honesty and openness that she practices makes this course easy to understand and get into."
Abigail Clemens, Post-Graduate Research Student, University of the Arts London
Progressive
"Kelli Morgan’s course strengthened my ongoing work to center anti-racist practice in museums. The seminar gives a clear structure for understanding how institutions reproduce systems of power and offers practical methods for building accountable, community-driven approaches. I use these concepts in my teaching, in my curatorial work, and in my administrative decisions. The clarity and integrity of Dr. Morgan’s approach also led me to nominate her for Alfred University’s Arts Speaker Series. The committee supported the nomination, and her visit helped bring these conversations to our students and our broader campus community."
Claire Kovacs, Director of Museums and Galleries,
Inamori School of Engineering, Alfred University
Transformative
"The word that comes to mind when thinking of Dr. Morgan is lodestar. She's tread many paths in academia, institutions, and entrepreneurship all while keeping it real and uplifting others. Since she is a mentor of mine, I bring the same ethos and interdisciplinary."
Chenoa Baker, Curator, Arts Writer, Cultural Strategist
