Call for Sessions: 2020 GIA Conference
Grantmakers in the Arts is seeking session proposals for the 2020 GIA Conference, to be held November 15-18 in New York City. We greatly value the experience, ideas, and programs that members share with each other and the field at large. GIA members are invited to propose conference sessions on our website. Proposals must be submitted by March 20 at 5pm EDT. Details here.
For conference updates please visit the conference website.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to submit a session proposal for the GIA annual conference. Have you renewed your GIA membership? Renew here.
For conference updates please visit the conference website.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to submit a session proposal for the GIA annual conference. Have you renewed your GIA membership? Renew here.
Supporting Immigrant Artists and Border Communities: A racial equity podcast
The 2020 Grantmakers in the Arts Racial Equity Podcast Series continues! In our most recent episode, we explore how can funders be supportive in welcoming new artists into the US. In this episode, we hear from Adriana Rios (National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures), and Luisa Martinez (Artivistas in Residencia and Otros Dreams en Acción). Listen here.
From the GIA Reader
In “Leveraging Libraries for Cultural Engagement: A Model from New York,” part of the GIA Reader, Vol 30, No 3 (Fall 2019) issue, David Giles writes about Culture Pass - a public library service that lets patrons go online and check out free day passes and tickets to New York City’s museums, cultural hubs, and performance venues - and how the program has partnered with institutions to target underserved neighborhoods. Read here.
Relive the 2019 GIA Conference: Tuesday IDEA LAB
Anthony J. Garcia, artistic director for Su Teatro, poet Eyni Jama, and Phamaly Theatre Company took the stage at the Tuesday morning plenary of the 2019 GIA Conference. Ginger White Brunetti, executive director of Denver Arts & Venues, introduced them. See the video here.
The recent report A Community-Centered Road Map Towards an Equitable and Inclusive Creative Economy in Seattle presents overarching goals “that address the question of how the City of Seattle can grow, support, and retain creatives while reducing disparities and inequities within the creative economy”…
James Hirschfeld, program officer at the Howard Gilman Foundation, emphasizes the importance of responsive grantmaking and how, as he says, at the Howard Gilman Foundation they “view financial statements as one way of identifying opportunities for impactful grants”…
A new podcast series, AZ Creative Voices, explores all that happens when artists are invited to contribute to community improvement efforts…
In the first of a series of essays celebrating the tenth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program, Our Town, Lyz Crane, deputy director of ArtPlace America, reflects on the power of arts and culture to transform community development and how “artists keep, make, and transform meaning”…
