These reports from 2015 and 2018, during the Vice Chancellor's time as Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, examine the demographics of staff from more than 800 art museums in the United States. The first, a baseline survey, demonstrates the oft-unacknowledged homogeneity of art museum staff, whereby non-Hispanic White staff continue to dominate the job categories most closely associated with the intellectual and educational mission of museums; while the second demonstrates the progress made in three years following sustained initiatives aimed at fostering greater diversity within art museum staffs. The survey finds that museum staff have become more racially and ethnically diverse since 2015. In doing so, Westermann demonstrates the importance of tangibly measuring progress.
Schonfield, R., Westermann, M., & Sweeney, L. (2015). The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation art museum staff demographic survey. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. https://mellon.org/media/filer_public/ba/99/ba99e53a-48d5-4038-80e1-66f9ba1c020e/awmf_museum_diversity_report_aamd_7-28-15.pdf
Westermann, M., Schonfield, R., & Sweeney, L. (2018). The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation art museum staff demographic survey 2018. https://mellon.org/media/filer_public/b1/21/b1211ce7-5478-4a06-92df-3c88fa472446/sr-mellon-report-art-museum-staff-demographic-survey-01282019.pdf