A Reflection on Arts and Health Equity
As part of GIA’s guest blog series, grounded in her research and practice at the intersection of the arts and public health, Tasha Golden, public health research consultant, writes about advancing health equity through the potential offered by the arts. Golden calls for partnering with artists and arts-engaged social movements that have organized and mobilized for change as the field of public health focuses on advancing equity. Read “The Arts and Health Equity: Four Opportunities for Impact”.
Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members
GIA is pleased to introduce our newest members, Tamizdat and Ana & Adeline Foundation. Welcome!
From the GIA Reader
In the Winter 2019 issue of the GIA Reader, in “More Rooms Like This,” Jo Kreiter, a San Francisco–based choreographer and site artist, takes us through her reflections in a visit to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, along with Tiger Foundation, as part of the annual site visit to Hudson Link, the higher education in prison program. “I dream of more rooms like this, and fewer prisons,” she writes. Read the piece.
“Funding in Rural Remote Communities” Webinar
As we think about the unique challenges faced by various communities that are considered rural, funding practices often come packaged for a similar prototype while the term “rural” remains a descriptor for objectively remote communities and bustling cities alike. However, when we focus particularly upon indigenous and native communities in tandem with arts and culture funding, philanthropic practice can look very different.
Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear from Lindsie Bear, program director of Native Cultures Fund, Humboldt Area Foundation, and Reuben Roqueñi, director of National Artist Fellowships, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. They will share how they have seen supporting indigenous communities, both remote and rural, and they will offer suggestions for rural and remote arts and culture philanthropic practice for communities across the nation. Details and registration here.
Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear from Lindsie Bear, program director of Native Cultures Fund, Humboldt Area Foundation, and Reuben Roqueñi, director of National Artist Fellowships, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. They will share how they have seen supporting indigenous communities, both remote and rural, and they will offer suggestions for rural and remote arts and culture philanthropic practice for communities across the nation. Details and registration here.
The educational initiative 400 Years of Inequality is partnering with the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a grassroots artist network, for a free Citizen Artist Salon on May 16th. This salon, according to the announcement, will explore place-based creative strategies for truth-telling and collective healing…
Big philanthropy came under scrutiny at the recent Skoll World Forum, where 1,200 people from 81 countries gathered at the University of Oxford, England, according to Forbes…
The International Association of Blacks in Dance, a Mellon Foundation grantee through its Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative, is key in “ensuring that a rich legacy of dance in America—and around the world—is preserved and continues to grow,” as the foundation writes in its blog…
