Racial Equity in Arts Funding: Call for Reader articles
Grantmakers in the Arts welcomes submissions of previously unpublished articles focused on racial equity in arts funding for the upcoming GIA Reader. Submit your article using the Reader submissions page. Before completing this form, please read our submission guidelines for detailed information on article formatting and other policies.
From the GIA Reader
In “Continuing Embrace of Equity: Bonfils-Stanton’s journey,” part of the GIA Reader, Vol 30, No 3 (Fall 2019) issue, Eddie Torres interviews Gary Steuer about the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s racial equity journey. Click to read.
Today! “I Already Fund ALAANA Arts Organizations—Now What?” Webinar
GIA is committed to addressing structural inequities and increasing philanthropic and government support for African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) artists and arts organizations. Creating racial equity statements and threading racial equity practices and policies into our work are concrete and important actions to take in order to achieve racial justice. However, there is more to it than that. Funders still need to keep the momentum going, delving more deeply into power structures, partnership, and resistance. But how?
Join us today for this racial equity webinar at 2pm EST/11am PST with Maurine Knighton (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) and Lori Villarosa (Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity). In this webinar they will take us into a deep discussion on what funders can consider as they continue funding with racial equity at the forefront. Details and registration here.
Join us today for this racial equity webinar at 2pm EST/11am PST with Maurine Knighton (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) and Lori Villarosa (Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity). In this webinar they will take us into a deep discussion on what funders can consider as they continue funding with racial equity at the forefront. Details and registration here.
In a recent blog post on Nonprofit AF, Vu Le reflects on how he has been seeing more signs of diverse communities “being treated like children who don’t know what’s good for them.” Le writes that, even though he doesn’t think that is conscious or intentional, “it is still frustrating”…
“All art is political. In tense, fractious times—like our current moment—all art is political. But even during those times when politics and the future of our country itself are not the source of constant worry and anxiety, art is still political”…
Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder and performance artist has created a new online MFA program, the Social and Environmental Arts Practice, that combines art, social justice, and community organizing at Prescott College in Arizona, the Los Angeles Times reported…
