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June’s Member Spotlight
For the month of June, GIA’s Member Spotlight features Peter Kiewit Foundation. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, the foundation’s grantees foster creativity, engage youth, develop empathy, and contribute to every community’s success.
From the GIA Archive
As we look into arts education in our upcoming webinar, we revisit the Fall 2002 Vol 13. No. 3 of the GIA Reader and read “Critical Links: A New Compendium of Research” by Nick Rabkin and “Connections between Education in the Arts and Student Achievement: Perspectives on relevant research,” by Dale Rose and Michaela Parks, which tackle the impact of the arts on academic outcomes. Read the articles here.
“Creating a State Data Culture to Inform Investments in Arts Education” Webinar
Join a webinar to examine a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Arts and Education Commission of the States to build states’ capacity to report on the arts education data they collect. The webinar will focus on the current climate for such work in states, strategies and tools for supporting state-level data efforts, and the value of incorporating arts education data into broader efforts to promote a culture of information in states.

Hear from Ayanna Hudson, director of Arts Education at National Endowment for the Arts, and Claus von Zastrow, principal of Education Commission of the States, on June 25 as they discuss how this work complements and reinforces ongoing efforts to track arts education data at the state level.

This webinar is brought to you by the National Endowment for the Arts and Education Commission of the States, in association with Grantmakers for Education, and Grantmakers in the Arts. Details and registration here.
Peter Kiewit Foundation
News from the Field
Pride Month: Filling the missing social history of the LGBTQ community in the South
Invisible Histories Project (iHP) is a non-profit based in Birmingham, Alabama with a mission to collect and preserve the material history of the Queer South…
“Artists Catalyze Social Change”: Vickie Benson reflects on McKnight Foundation's Arts program
“Artists contribute artistically, economically, socially, and culturally within our communities. By engaging public consciousness and discourse, artists can and do catalyze social change,” writes Vickie Benson, McKnight Foundation’s Arts program director, as she prepares to step down from the foundation at the end of June…
School Music Teachers as Heroes
“Unsung heroes, school music teachers create magic every day. They deserve our undying gratitude.” A post celebrates the school music teacher and the importance of this figure in an integral arts education…

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