GIA Podcast: Spotlight on the Twin Cities

New on the GIA Podcast, we speak with 2016 GIA Conference co-chairs, Vickie Benson of The McKnight Foundation and Glyn Northington of Nonprofits Assistance Fund, on the special characteristics and unique creative community of the Twin Cities. They also share what they are looking forward to at the conference in October.

The 2016 GIA Conference will be held October 16-19 in Saint Paul, MN. Register for the conference today!

September Web Conference: Bringing Artists Together

The next GIA web conference, Bringing Artists Together: Support through Convening, will be held on Tuesday, September 27 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT. Jonathon Glus from Houston Arts Alliance and Meg Leary from United States Artists will present examples of how artist convenings can be utilized to cultivate connections between artists and other professionals for the advancement of the artists’ careers.

Related material from the archive: You may also be interested in watching this IDEA LAB presentation by artists Claire Chase, Tim Carpenter, and Germaine Ingram at the 2013 GIA Conference.

September Member Spotlight: New Mexico Arts

For the month of September, GIA’s photo banner features projects supported by New Mexico Arts, New Mexico’s state arts agency. New Mexico Arts is advised by a 15-member, governor-appointed arts commission. It provides financial support for arts services and programs to non-profit organizations and administers the 1% pubic art program statewide.

New from the GIA Reader: The Charitable Deduction

In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader entitled “The Charitable Deduction,” author Bronwyn Mauldin of Los Angeles County Arts Commission discusses how future tax reforms might affect deductions for charitable contributions to the arts.

The National Endowment for the Arts has released new research that for the first time offers a complete state-by-state perspective on how Americans participate in the arts…

A new online tool, MuseumStat, and its corresponding iOS app called MuseumFinder map out museums across the United States and the communities they serve…

The pilot grant initiative will support the expanding definition of craft-based research and promote collaboration between the fields of craft, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…