How We Are Showing Up to the GIA Conference
We are eagerly awaiting the start of the 2021 GIA Annual Conference coming this November, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Given the unprecedented times in which we are living and working, and the importance of prioritizing the health and safety of our hosts, our team, and our members conference participants, we have designed this year’s conference to be hybrid, allowing for in-person or virtual participation.
In concert with updates from our local partners in San Juan, all in-person participants – including GIA team, volunteers, hotel guests and staff, and conference attendees – will be required to be fully vaccinated to join any and all in-person track events.
For additional details about COVID-19 safety measures and protocols during the conference, visit the conference website.
In concert with updates from our local partners in San Juan, all in-person participants – including GIA team, volunteers, hotel guests and staff, and conference attendees – will be required to be fully vaccinated to join any and all in-person track events.
For additional details about COVID-19 safety measures and protocols during the conference, visit the conference website.
Grantmakers in the Arts Board Ballot: Vote now!
If you are the primary contact for your organization, you should have received an email on August 2 directing you to the ballot to vote for the GIA board of directors. Candidates for the GIA board were selected earlier this year from GIA member nominations and recommended by the GIA nominating committee. The GIA board ballot will close on Monday, September 13, 2021 at midnight EDT.
Future of the Field: Introducing the Cross-Sector Creative Placemaking Series
GIA, in partnership with ArtPlace America, presents a living resource of dialogue, debate, and ideas on the future of arts and creative placemaking. Based on a decade of cross-sector research led by ArtPlace America, and in keeping with their knowledge-building approach, an interactive tool was developed to highlight 13 ways that arts and culture can support equitable community development. Continuing this work, GIA commissioned a series of response pieces from individuals and practitioners across the field of creative placemaking to be presented alongside ArtPlace’s analysis. Watch the Future of the Field
space for weekly updates.
Read this week’s inaugural piece authored by Sunil Iyengar (National Endowment for the Arts) here.
Read this week’s inaugural piece authored by Sunil Iyengar (National Endowment for the Arts) here.
The City of New York announced funding for a new cultural space to be built to serve as Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s headquarters. “With just over $3 million in new City funding added as part of this year’s capital budget, the project is now fully funded with $10.2 million in City support,” according to the press release…
Artists at Work, “a pilot that launched last summer in Western Massachusetts to pay artists a living wage — including healthcare — to collaborate with cultural organizations and local initiatives in creating work that responds to issues such as youth mental health, food justice and COVID awareness campaigns in marginalized communities,” is the center of a recent article in Next City…
In an essay published by the National Endowment for the Arts, Eleanor Savage discussed how the pandemic “has highlighted and amplified technology’s central place in every aspect of our daily lives” and “the vital role of artists in the development and shaping of social and cultural tools and in world-building through technology”…
