We’ve Signed a Lease: Announcing the New Office in NYC

GIA is excited to move to New York City in January. As part of our commitment to communities and racial equity, we are thrilled to announce that we have signed a lease on a new office space in the South Bronx, a predominantly ALAANA community. We will be located in a part of the Melrose section of the Bronx called The Hub, an area with a vibrant arts community, one block from the soon-to-be-developed Roberto Clemente Plaza.

We’ll share our new contact information, including the address and phone number, after the move in January.

Membership Renewals

GIA membership renewals for 2018 will take place in late winter/early spring. Please look for your renewal notification and additional details once we’re settled in our new office!

New from the GIA Reader: Cultural Planning for More Equitable Cities

Tom Borrup writes about the disconnect between cultural planning and city planning and argues that integrating the two could be a key to equity in America’s cities. Read “Just Planning: Can Cultural Planning Help Build More Equitable Cities?”

Members of the Racial Equity Funders Collaborative in Minnesota recently shared a letter on issues of racial inequity affecting the arts community and how they are working to address them…

The organization uses the term culturally specific to refer to “nonprofits led by people of color and rooted in historically marginalized communities…

On Monday, November 20, the US Senate Appropriations Committee released a 2018 spending bill that would fund the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities at 2017 budget levels, $150 million for each agency…

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, Nathan Slack, has announced that the council’s President & CEO Rena Blades will step down on January 15, 2018…