Just under 18% of our art technical users of ArtTechSpace.com are women. Through our Instagram account, we can see that 42% of our followers are women and 58% are men. Women are a minority in the male-dominated art technical industry, we already know that right?

Level It: Women’s Art Handlers Network https://www.levelit.network/ is an organisation based in Seattle, Washington USA working to unite women-identified art handlers, museum preparators, and speciality fabricators for growth and empowerment in these fields. Through hands-on technical workshops and regularly scheduled events, this group is laying a foundation for women working in the industry to gain confidence, recognition, experience, and an expanded professional network. In their own words: “We created Level It because we wanted to break out of the isolation that is common working in industries where you feel under-represented. We saw the importance of using our personal platforms and privilege to open space for others. Level It provides training opportunities to other women-identified folks in the field through our workshops and skill-shares, we promote community and collaboration through our meetups, and we centre women-identified experts as our paid instructors. By doing this work, we hope to open pathways for underrepresented voices breaking into the field and to provide continued support to growing experts already in the field. Ultimately, we want to see more women and diverse representation leading the industry. It feels like a tremendous moment industry-wide right now. We’ve been hugely inspired and guided by The Broad’s Diversity Apprenticeship Program (https://www.thebroad.org/dap), tenets of the Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles (https://wccwcorevalues.persona.co/</