April’s Member Spotlight
For this month, GIA’s photo banner features work supported by Calgary Arts Development, an agency that invests and allocates municipal funding for the arts provided by the City of Calgary to support arts organizations, individual artists, artist collectives, and ad hoc groups in Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. Read about the agency here.
New Reader Available Online
The Winter 2019 issue of the GIA Reader is now available! Highlights include the “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2016” by Reina Mukai, “Public Funding for the Arts, 2018” by Ryan Stubbs and Patricia Mullaney-Loss, a piece on building racial equity in public art funding by Marcia Iwasaki, Elisheba Johnson, and Erika Lindsay, an article on place finding by Rene Yung, and Lindsie Bear’s review of Edgar Villanueva’s book, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous wisdom to heal divides and restore balance. Explore it here.
“Arts Funding, Storytelling, and the Importance of Narrative Change” Webinar
Grantmakers in the Arts is a community of practice with a shared vision of investing in arts and culture as strategy for social change. One of the major issues we are exploring is dominant and/or mainstream narratives that continue to live on and perpetuate racialized practices and outcomes. With a system that is not broken, but rather structured intentionally to foster inequitable and unjust outcomes, the need for narrative change is more urgent now than ever.
We seek to elevate the importance of changing narratives among arts and culture funders, and we invite you to join us kick off this narrative change series.
Join us on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 2pm EDT/11am PDT to hear from Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo, Beloved Community Fund program officer, Akonadi Foundation, and Rinku Sen, writer and political strategist. They will anchor the series with a discussion on the national discourse around narrative change, how artists are using storytelling to facilitate this shift, and what this means for funders. Details and registration here.
We seek to elevate the importance of changing narratives among arts and culture funders, and we invite you to join us kick off this narrative change series.
Join us on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 2pm EDT/11am PDT to hear from Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo, Beloved Community Fund program officer, Akonadi Foundation, and Rinku Sen, writer and political strategist. They will anchor the series with a discussion on the national discourse around narrative change, how artists are using storytelling to facilitate this shift, and what this means for funders. Details and registration here.
The Highlander Research and Education Center, a civil rights center in Tennessee founded in 1932, stated that a fire that burned its main office last Friday may have been intentionally set, after a “symbol connected to the white power movement” was found spray-painted in the parking lot next to the rubble of the building, as The New York Times reported…
Brion Gill (better known as Lady Brion), activist and spoken-word artist, led a walking tour of Baltimore that was part of the application process “to create what would be the first Maryland-designated arts and entertainment district dedicated to black arts and culture, in a city that happens to be two-thirds black,” as Next City reports…
Mid-America Arts Alliance announced Interchange, a new pilot program created to strengthen communities and individual artists within the organization’s region by supporting artist-led projects focused on social impact…
An initiative to prevent funding groups that promote hatred was recently launched by Amalgamated Foundation and its partners. The “Hate Is Not Charitable” campaign is calling for Donor Advised Funds providers “to exercise their legal discretion over grants recommended by their donors and adopt pro-active policies to ensure that funds do not flow to organizations that promote hatred”…
