Registration for the 2018 GIA Conference Opens Today!

Registration for the 2018 GIA Conference: Race, Space, and Place in Oakland, California is now officially open. This year’s conference will be held Sunday, October 21 through Wednesday, October 24, featuring over 50 sessions as well as inspiring keynote presentations and performances. GIA members will receive the first opportunity to register and a first look at the conference offerings before they are announced to the public. All GIA members are eligible for discounted conference registration.

Letter to Congress Expressing Concerns on the Proposed Changes to the 2020 Census

On June 15, GIA’s Board of Directors wrote to Congress expressing concerns that the proposed changes to the 2020 decennial census, including the Administration’s addition of a question on citizenship status, would negatively impact public support for arts and arts education. “The question on citizenship status alone is especially troubling given the impact it will have on the ability of the census to accurately count all those living in and contributing to our nation,” points out the letter. Read it here.

Webinar Alert: “Taking Things a Step Further: Strategic planning for ALAANA funding” today

Last year, Tracie D. Hall, program director of culture at The Joyce Foundation; Bushra Junaid, outreach and development manager at Ontario Arts Council; and Dana Payne, program director at Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, joined us to discuss their efforts to close the racial gap in arts philanthropy through their respective programs. This year, they are back to take things a step further and discuss the various stages of the strategic planning process for ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American) arts organizations. It is GIA’s belief that ALAANA individuals whose identities intersect with those of other “minority” social statuses often experience compounded mistreatment that is amplified by the interaction of race. We look forward to an in-depth presentation on how funders can address this issue.

“Taking Things a Step Further: Strategic planning for ALAANA funding” will be held today at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.

Lane Harwell, the executive director of Dance/NYC, will transition this summer from the organization to join the Ford Foundation as program officer, Creativity and Free Expression, where he will support the foundation’s explorations of how the arts can contribute to fairer and more just societies, Dance/NYC announced…

About 28 million people or 11.7 percent of the U.S. adult population read poetry in the last year, according to a new survey by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This number means that “as a share of the total U.S. adult population, this poetry readership is the highest on record over a 15-year period”…

The Civic Practice Partnership is the Metropolitan Museum's new collaborative residency program for New York artists committed to social change…