Webinar: Using Feedback and Data to Strengthen Individual Artist Support

The final webinar in GIA’s series on support for individual artists, Using Feedback and Data to Strengthen Individual Artist Support, will be held on Tuesday, April 25 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. This webinar will discuss how feedback and data can strengthen organizational and field-wide support to individual artists. Our presenters will address critical questions about research: Why is data important to collect? Within our organizations and field-wide, are we asking the right questions and measuring what matters? How do we meaningfully invite and integrate feedback that results in better outcomes?

We will hear from Claudia Bach with AdvisArts who has recently conducted artist feedback projects with various types of funders, and from Heather Pontonio with Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation who will share information about Artist Thrive, the first national assessment tool to establish common standards, language, and goals for individual artist support.

Arts Funders Respond: Now Accepting Submissions

Last week, GIA launched a new website called Arts Funders Respond to catalog the work that arts funders are doing to address the needs of the arts community in the current political climate. GIA members are encouraged to send information about programs, policies, and resources they have implemented around this topic. Please email materials to Monica Thomas at monica@giarts.org to be considered for inclusion on the website.

New from the GIA Reader: Moving Dance Forward

In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader, author Cathy Edwards, executive director of the New England Foundation for the Arts, discusses the work of the National Dance Project. “Moving Dance Forward: Twenty Years of Grantmaking for a Changing Landscape” summarizes the results of a similarly named report and discusses the needs, trends, and demographics among dance makers and presenters.

Grantmakers in the Arts Seeks New CEO

GIA has contracted with Koya Leadership Partners to conduct a search for its new CEO, and the position profile is now available online. As announced in December, GIA President and CEO Janet Brown will step down from her position at the end of 2017. GIA members are encouraged to share the position profile with any interested parties.

Laura Zucker has announced her plans to leave her position as executive director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission on July 31, 2017…

A recent article in The Denver Post highlights a new public-private partnership to fund arts programs that also support human services…

A recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review discusses how some foundations are using a systems change approach to work toward social change in the current political climate…

This latest ACPSA data is from 2014 and reveals that the arts and cultural sector contributed $729.6 billion or 4.2 percent to the U.S. economy that year…

In a recent blog post, June Wilson and Lenore Hanisch of the Quixote Foundation discuss the decision to close the foundation and spend its entire endowment…