Press
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CHEAD FACE Summit
October 24. Announcing our forthcoming summit. Decentering Spaces! This is in collaboration with RCA on 7th Nov and 8th Nov. Read more here.
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CHEAD FACE Race Handbook
July 24. We launch our free - Allies FACE Race Handbook download. Thanks CHEAD for your continual support. Read more here
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CHEAD See My Academic FACE
April 24 Our study is polling both minoritised and non minoritised for their experience as educators. Link here
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Times Higher Education
January 23. FACE co-founder Pascal Matthias deconstructs language to help us hone our communication and clarify intentions. Link here
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Guardian Feature
Nov 23. Two FACE members: Andrew Ibi and Caryn Franklin discuss why recent hIgh profile fashion jobs have recruited only white males. Link here
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Cultural Neutering
FACE member Neelam Wright highlights the realities of struggles to fit into suffocating work environments of extreme reservedness. Link here
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Serious about Social Justice
WONKHE feature by Professor Pathik Pathak questioning effectiveness of EDI work also praises FACE initiatives. Link here
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1 Granary
With one week to go the FACE Summit report featuring co-founders. Read more here
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CHEAD Website
Through CHEAD we reach targeted member institutions with our Summit Films. See promotion here
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CHEAD Website
Our summit news reached 850 individual subscribers and many member institutions. Read more here
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Widening Participation
Press on FACE collaboration with Westminster and the Associates team. Read more here
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FACE quotes on WLM
Our academics were requested to give opinions to the Evening Standard on Ye’s (Kanye West’s) latest and most counter-intuitive catwalk statement. Read more here
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Vogue Online
Thank you Sarah Mower for a brilliant and in depth article on FACE as our first winner of the Black Excellence Prize - Joy Julius takes to the international stage. Read full feature here
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CHEAD Bulletin
The Council for Higher education Art and design: CHEAD have invited FACE to present these findings at their Annual Meeting and separately to their trustees also. Read more here
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Wonkhe.com
Our argument that new TEF process together with lack of race specific questions within the NSS succeeds in hiding racism in plain sight.
Read the full report here
October 2020 Announcing FACE
Photographer Elliot Morgan
Grazia
Banish All Thoughts Of The Devil Wears Prada – Fashion Is Now About Family, Collaboration And Openness
“Fashion has had a long-standing problem with race, but this is especially so with its fashion schools, where diversity is sorely lacking. “I'm the only permanently contracted Black member of staff at both Central Saint Martins and The Royal College of Art,” says David Kappo, a founding member of the new collective of fashion academics and their allies, called FACE (Fashion Academics Creating Equality.) 'With my students, visibility is important. It's important that they see staff who look like them. Now is the time to have those uncomfortable discussions to make that happen.”
Read more here
Photographer Chris Moore
i-D
Joe Casely-Hayford. An Icon for our times
“Another initiative inspired by Joe Casely - Hayford’s legacy is Fashion Academics Creating Equality FACE. Created earlier this year, FACE is supported by i-D, SHOWstudio and Graduate Fashion Week. Its members will challenge current educational protocol that centres whiteness, white knowledge and white leadership to support future generations of Black talent in a way that wasn’t there for Joe or others since.”
Read more here
SHOWstudio
Joe Casely-Hayford. An Icon for our times
Chair, Andrew Ibi and guests- Ekow Eshun, Karen Binns, Caroline Rush, Walé Adeyemi and Tolu Coker, discuss the legacy of Joe Casely-Hayford to British Design and to young creatives. FACE is announced as a valuable educational asset.
See full panel show here