The Getty Foundation has launched a new initiative, the Getty Marrow Emerging Professionals pilot program, dedicated to connecting historically under-represented groups with full-time, early-career positions at art museums and nonprofits in Los Angeles.
The two-year program connects the diverse cohort with mentors and networking opportunities to help jump-start their careers. Joan Weinstein, the director of the Getty Foundation, explains that the new program developed out of the need for diverse voices in the Los Angeles art world.
“Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the world,” Weinstein says. “Yet staff at museums and visual arts organizations don’t reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the city.”
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Leaon hopes to provide guidance and help young professionals by assisting in the program through the Academy Museum — one of the institutions taking part in the program.
Other Los Angeles institutions include the Armory Center for the Arts, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Self Help Graphics & Art, the Skirball Cultural Center, the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute.