Relive GIA’s Summit on Support for Individual Artists
There remains a large space for understanding what it takes to be an artist today and to support an artist today. That was the focus of our recent summit, in collaboration with New York Grantmakers in the Arts, hosted by Philanthropy New York on January 29, in which Suzy Delvalle, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Miguel Luciano, Liza Jessie Peterson, and Dread Scott discussed along GIA President & CEO, Eddie Torres, artistic freedom, censorship, activism, and decency standards, and the role philanthropy plays. See the video here.
February’s Member Spotlight
Montana Arts Council is February’s GIA Member Spotlight. As the Montana Arts Council has continued its decades-long history of supporting and building partnerships with arts organizations, that focus has evolved toward serving the specialized needs of individual artists. Read here about the agency.
Today! GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture Webinar
In the upcoming Winter 2020 edition of the GIA Reader, the latest edition of GIA’s funder snapshot will include “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2017,” based on the most recent completed year of Candid. data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2019,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA).
Join us today to hear from Reina Mukai (Candid.), Ryan Stubbs (NASAA), and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (NASAA). Details and registration here.
Join us today to hear from Reina Mukai (Candid.), Ryan Stubbs (NASAA), and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (NASAA). Details and registration here.
From the GIA Reader
In “Transforming Colorado’s Creative Rural Communities: Space to create,” part of the GIA Reader, Vol 30, No 3 (Fall 2019) issue, Kristi Arellano writes about the Space to Create Colorado initiative, a partnership between the State of Colorado, philanthropic funders, local leaders, and a nonprofit housing developer and how it is “sparking additional investment and redevelopment in communities that had struggled to reinvent or diversify their economies.” Read here.
The federal administration’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget, released on Monday, would eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as Americans for the Arts informed…
The Mosaic Network and Fund in The New York Community Trust, a collaboration between 19 foundations, recently committed $4.5 million to fund 27 arts groups that are led by, created for, and accountable to African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) people…
The California Arts Council announced its new Innovations + Intersections pilot grant program, which seeks to serve as “a resource for nonprofits statewide to implement creative strategies that take on urgent community needs crossing the technology and health sectors,” according to a press release…
