Introducing Convening Keynotes: Salome Asega
We’re excited to announce we have Salome Asega as one of the keynotes of the 2020 GIA Virtual Convening, Power, Practice, Resilience: Remix’d. Asega is an artist and researcher, she is also the director of Partnerships at POWRPLNT, a youth digital art collaboratory in Brooklyn. She teaches classes on speculative design and participatory design methodologies in Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology. Visit the convening website for details. Register now for the 2020 GIA Convening.
National Preparedness Month
It’s National Preparedness month. Have you checked yourself? You can’t plan for everything, but you can be prepared to face the unexpected. ArtsReady and the Performing Arts Readiness project have released the Pocket Response Resource which offers a quick reference for critical actions that might otherwise be forgotten as part of your organization’s emergency preparedness planning. Click here to download.
A New President’s Blog Series
In the first of a series of blogs titled “The Future We Want,” Eddie Torres, GIA president & CEO, reflects reflect on the importance of capitalization and financing to the arts funding field. Click here to read.
From the GIA Reader
In “Mítákuye Oyás’in: Our approach to ‘Taking Back Tribalism’,” part of the Summer 2020 issue of the GIA Reader (Volume 31, No. 2), Lori Pourier, president & CEO of First Peoples Fund, writes a first-person account on the importance of introducing herself in her Lakota language and the act of tribal sovereignty in doing so. Click here to read.
“When it comes to racial bias, you either participate in it actively or through silence, or you use your power and privilege to dismantle it. Each day you make this choice – when you serve as a juror, when you call the police or see someone else call and when and for whom you vote. If oppression happens, then we are allowing it to happen and we are all in the position to stop it”…
The Trust-Based Philanthropy Project published recently a guide centered on the responsibilities of a trust-based project…
“The Movement for Black Lives and the broader conversation about the value of arts and culture in our society and its role in amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous, and people of color is opening opportunities for profound change,” states Shelley Trott, director of the Arts Strategy & Ventures at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation…
A report from Council on Foundations, Philanthropy California, and Dalberg Advisors delves into how the US philanthropic sector is responding to the 2020 public health, racial justice, and economic crises of 2020…
