ABSTRACT
Demographic changes in the United States have seen a significant increase in racial and ethnic diversity that is expected to continue. Calls to diversify arts management have also emerged within the field of arts management higher education. This chapter provides an overview of culturally responsive teaching in arts management. An important part of culturally responsive teaching is the practice of acknowledging the sociopolitical context of underrepresented college students and the “explicit acknowledgment to students that you are aware of the iniquities that impact their lives.” The main focus of culturally responsive teaching is to provide agency and cultural relevance to underrepresented students, who often have to “culturally translate” concepts and examples into their own culturally relevant context. In order for culturally responsive education to be fully operationalized within the arts management context, equity, diversity, and inclusion strategies must be infused throughout the higher educational setting and experience.
