Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members

GIA is pleased to introduce our newest members, The Azrieli Foundation and IFF. Welcome!

Call for Nominations: GIA Board of Directors

Grantmakers in the Arts is accepting candidates to serve on our board of directors. Board members attend meetings three times per year in addition to the annual conference and are active in recruiting members, developing policies and the strategic direction of programs, and when appropriate, raising funds that support GIA’s service to the field. To access the nomination form, log in to your GIA Account and click on Board Nomination Form on the left sidebar of the account page. For additional assistance, please contact sylvia@giarts.org.

New on the GIA Blog: A reflection on our racial equity podcasts

Grantmakers in the Arts Programs Manager, Sherylynn Sealy, reflects on the 2020 GIA Racial Equity Podcast Series and how it echoes with her racial equity journey. Read here.

From the GIA Reader

In “Call and Response: What artists need most” part of the GIA Reader, Vol 30, No 3 (Fall 2019) issue, Ray Mark Rinaldi writes about the Octopus Initiative, an effort of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and its goal to “put art in the hands of many” while commissioning new works from local artists, helping artists in Denver to stay in the community. Read here.

Ahead of the 2020 election, as LA Weekly reported, the organization For Freedoms - originally founded as an “arts-centric super PAC” in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman - is launching its first ever For Freedoms Congress…

California’s state arts agency and appointed Arts Council adopted a strategic framework that includes a new mission, vision, and values statements; a racial equity statement; a decision support tool; and a set of aspirations for potential future actions…

A $150,000 planning grant to James Madison University from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the University’s College of Arts and Letters and the JMU Libraries to learn, grow, and deepen their partnership for an integrated library, states the announcement…