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Conference Keynote: Maurice Cox
Maurice Cox
The Sunday luncheon plenary of the 2017 GIA Conference will feature Maurice Cox, planning director for the City of Detroit. Cox is a nationally recognized leader and educator in community-centered urban design, and has previously held positions as design director of the National Endowment for the Arts, associate dean for community engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture, and mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia. Learn more and register for the 2017 GIA Conference.
Webinars in July: Arts in Well-being
The next GIA webinar, Arts in Medicine: Supporting Artists Working in Healthcare Settings, will be held on Tuesday, July 11, 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Join Patricia Lambert from University of Oregon’s arts management program and Jill Sonke, director of University of Florida’s Center for the Arts in Medicine, who will share their experiences working with artists and healthcare professionals to support successful arts-in-medicine programs. Patricia and Jill participated as thought leaders at the Arts in Medicine Funders Forum earlier this year in Orlando, FL, a conversation sparked by GIA’s recent literature review. Janet Brown, GIA’s president and CEO, will moderate this discussion.

Coming up: Vitality Arts: Impact at the Intersection of Arts and Aging on Tuesday, July 25.
New from the GIA Reader: Of Birds and Butterflies
GIA Reader, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer 2017)
In the latest issue of the GIA Reader, artist-in-residence Dylan Klempner reflects on the power of the arts to support medical patients and their loved ones in times of crisis. Read “Of Birds and Butterflies: On the Convergence of Arts and Health Care.”
Arts Funders Respond: The Latest Headlines
GIA’s Arts Funders Respond, is a web resource offering the latest news stories and updates from the arts philanthropy field in response to our changing political climate.

Is your organization taking action to support artists and arts organizations in response to the political climate? Send submissions to Monica Thomas to be considered for the website.
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News from the Field
NASAA Releases Forecast of State Arts Agency Approriations for FY18
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies has released the State Arts Agency Legislative Appropriations Preview, Fiscal Year 2018. This document summarizes how state arts agencies fared during this year’s budget deliberations…
New Grantmaking Pyramid Reframes What Nonprofits Need to Be Sustainable
An article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review discusses how grantmaking policies affect the financial stability of nonprofits, as researched by Michael Etzel, a partner at Bridgespan, a nonprofit consultancy, and Hilary Pennington, a vice president at the Ford Foundation…
Western US States Lag Behind in Arts Education, Study Says
An article in EdSource discusses the challenges affecting arts education in California, using recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress…
Beth Tuttle to Step Down as President of DataArts
Tuttle, who has led the organization since March 2013, will remain in her role through October 6, 2017.…

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