GIA is pleased to have three influential bloggers covering the 2011 conference. Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer is executive director of the Queens Council on the Arts and blogs at hoongyee.com. Barry Hessenius is a writer, consultant and author of Barry’s … Continue reading
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Posted on September 15, 2011 by GIA News
A consortium consisting of several GIA members including The National Endowment for the Arts and several private foundations have created a grant program to support economic revitalization through the arts. ArtPlace America announced its first round of grants today.
Posted on September 15, 2011 by Steve
From Robin Pogrebin at The New York Times:
In the two years since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman has been trying to make the case that art is an effective linchpin to economic development. Now in a broad effort to build on that thesis, he has helped to enlist an unusual consortium of foundations, corporations and federal agencies that will use cultural enterprises to anchor and enliven 34 projects around the country, from a struggling city block in Detroit to a vacant school in East Harlem.
Posted on September 15, 2011 by Steve
ArtsReady, a national initiative of South Arts, is a new readiness, response, and recovery Web-based platform designed to help ensure post-crisis business continuity for arts organizations. The online tool will be unveiled to the arts community nationwide via a free webcast on Thursday, September 15 at 1:00pm EST.
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Steve
While the Northeast, Vermont in particular, picks up the pieces in the aftermath of tremendous flash floods brought on by the former tropical storm Irene, remember that CERF+ Artists' Emergency Resources, an organization dedicated to helping Artists recover from disasters (and an organization itself based in Vermont) continues its good work. You can see the CERF+ Irene response page here.
Likewise, here's a blog post from Stuart Comstock-Gay, president and CEO of Vermont Community Foundation:
The Special and Urgent Needs Fund: Irene Recovery will support nonprofit organizations that lost facilities and materials at a time when their services were needed most. Not only is Vermont’s nonprofit sector particularly large—it makes up 18 percent of our state’s gross product—it also supports our communities and basic infrastructure.
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Steve
From Allison Fine in The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
Nonprofits must stop simply playing around with social media as if it were a pair of shimmering, five-inch Manolo Blahnik high heels and integrate the tools throughout their organizations like a pair of sturdy Timberland walking shoes.
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Steve
From Mark Slavkin at ARTSBlog:
When we consider careers in the arts, I would like to see more attention paid and resources assigned to cultivate the next generation of teaching artists.
Posted on September 13, 2011 by Steve
From DA Morales at Tucson Citizen:
A delegation of more than 50 acclaimed writers, visual artists, and filmmakers will gather in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona September 10-16 to kick off a major national arts-based campaign challenging punitive, anti-immigrant laws and longstanding federal immigration policies.
Posted on September 13, 2011 by Steve
From Barbara Jepson at The Wall Street Journal:
Is this merely a lull in a continuing trend? Or are we seeing the last gasp of major performing-arts-center construction for a while? Many of the cities that wanted better halls have completed them. And reports of economic distress among these new venues—which prompted the University of Chicago to study cultural infrastructure in the U.S.—have caused other communities to think twice before jumping on the bandwagon. “Local governments are experiencing difficulties,” says Paul Scarbrough, acoustician for The Smith Center, “and the philanthropic community is sitting on the sidelines, wondering if they'll be asked to support these buildings down the road.”
Posted on September 13, 2011 by Janet
Equity is a complex topic with many interpretations. We are talking a great deal about it these days at Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA.) It is a major theme of the upcoming GIA conference in San Francisco, the focus of a new publication by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) for which GIA served in an advisory capacity, the topic of several articles in our upcoming Reader and the subject of a GIA Thought Leader Forum.