MAC’S STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY

We at MAC stand in solidarity with those mourning the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many more in the United States. The events heighten our collective awareness that there is still much work for us — as individuals, as museum professionals, in our region and around the world — to dismantle systems of oppression that have long impacted and continue to decimate Afro-descendant and indigenous communities. We acknowledge that, even within our own institutions, we may have continued practices that play a part in upholding inherited power structures and, as a group, we have the obligation to unlearn inherited practices to ...