Feb 13, 2021 / 11:29 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Newfields apologized Saturday for a job description in a listing for director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art that explained one of the job duties as “maintaining the Museum’s traditional, core, white art audience.”
Newfields is an 152-acre campus on the White River in Indianapolis that includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park and the Lilly House, as well as an historic garden and properties Columbus, Indiana.
The job description, which had been posted sometime in January, was changed between Friday night and Saturday morning, according to the listing online, to remove the word “white” from the wording of this entry under the “exhibitions, collections and programs” section of the job duties:
The museum wrote that it was seeking a director who would work to maintain its “core, white art audience,” in addition to attracting a more diverse one.
The museum wrote that it was seeking a director who would work to maintain its “core, white art audience,” in addition to attracting a more diverse one.