FAA's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Committee works to engage with all units and areas of the college to create and promote a welcoming, safe, and accessible environment for all.
Visitors at the “Black on Black on Black on Black” faculty exhibition at KAM
The University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts recognizes a broad and inclusive concept of diversity as a springboard toward mutual understanding. Diversity encompasses complex differences and similarities in identities and perspectives among members of our college, as well as among individuals who make up the broader global community.
The college’s concept of diversity retains the capacity to continually evolve, embracing a wide spectrum of viewpoints.
Visitors at the “Black on Black on Black on Black” faculty exhibition at KAM
As stated in the FAA Bylaws.
The college has launched a number of projects and initiatives to advance diversity, inclusion, equity, and access while recognizing the deep and rich work and visions offered by our artists, designers, performers, scholars, architects, and activists.
Professor Lamont Holden hosts Campus Culture Digital. These are rap performances and conversations that matter for the culture on campus at University of Illinois and campuses globally. Lamont Holden, also known as TheLetterLBeats is a music producer and Professor of Music Audio & Recording Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music in the Fine & Applied Arts Department.
“We Got Next” is a five part, webinar series designed to highlight the work and research of faculty of color relevant to race and equality. This effort is led by Endalyn Taylor, then professor in the Department of Dance and Dean’s Fellow. Each week, Taylor will be joined by faculty members and special guests to share their research and a live discussion of the work’s creation, impact, relationship to the perpetual pandemic of racism, and the systematic issues brought to the forefront by George Floyd’s murder and other recent events. Streamed in the summer of 2020.
Based in Black aesthetics and traditions, Professor Lou Turner designed the course to draw from the college’s many disciplines to create a picture of racism and white supremacy in the United States while also profiling the deep and rich counter-visions offered by Black artists, designers, performers, scholars, architects, and activists. He developed the Black Arts Today course for asynchronous online delivery in order to meet the needs of FAA students across a wide variety of course schedule constraints.
