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The opens its doors every day to all visitors free of charge.  However, if very few of the people working there look like you, do you really feel welcome?

鈥淚t鈥檚 absolutely essential that when you walk into the door of an art museum, like the Cleveland Museum of Art, you see yourself reflected and you feel welcome.  When you don鈥檛 see that, you feel like an outsider, it鈥檚 very difficult to fully welcome you,鈥� said CMA鈥檚 director of education and academic affairs Cyra Levenson.

With a new grant from the Ford and Walton Family Foundation along with the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art has undertaken a citywide effort to address the long-standing lack of diversity in the museum profession.  The seeks to nurture and develop talent for the field.

Levenson said the initiative will make young people aware of how broad the career potentials are in the museum field, as well as make internships available to those who haven鈥檛 had the opportunity to take advantage of them.  

Using a tiered-mentorship model, the initiative will offer programs that will teach high school students to learn what a curator does. College students will be taught how to give museum tours. Graduate students from across the country will be learn about a public humanities model that teaches them how to turn their scholarships into a public-facing direction.

鈥淥ur goal is to make sure our institution on the outside and the inside reflect the diversity of the community and we鈥檙e really thinking as broadly as we can on how to make the Cleveland Museum of Art an essential part of living in Cleveland,鈥� Levenson said.