“I think there’s some progress in some places, and I think there’s static progress in other (places), because there isn’t a full understanding, of not just of what it means, but what it means to actually practice it.” - Jeffreen Hayes, one of the panelists participating in the School of the Art Institute’s first Toward an Anti-Racist Art Ecosystem dialogue series, talking about whether progress is being made in combating racism in the local arts community.