Grantmakers in the Arts

Governor Nikki Haley Vetoes Funding for South Carolina Arts Commission

July 9, 2012 by Abigail

Reporting for the Charleston Regional Business Journal, James T. Hammond writes:

Gov. Nikki Haley on Friday vetoed 81 line items in the General Assembly fiscal year 2012-2013 budget, including all funding for two state agencies: the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Sea Grant Consortium...the S.C. Arts Commission will be closed pending Legislative action, accordig to the organization's website...In order to overturn Haley's vetoes, the House and the Senate must each vote by a two-thirds majority to keep the General Assembly's version of the vetoed line item.

July 5, 2012 by Steve

From Diane Ragsdale on her Jumper blog:

July 5, 2012 by Steve

From Soren Peterson at The Huffington Post:

Developing creative individuals takes a society that values and promotes curious, proactive qualities, interdependence, responsibility and accountability. The process of building these well-rounded citizens starts with kindergarten and continues throughout life, constantly disseminating and transferring learning to the next generation.

July 3, 2012 by Steve

The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has been awarded $100,000 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s Digital Resources grant program to support a project to preserve, arrange and create Web-searchable online electronic finding aids for 10 archival collections that are central to provenance research for the history of art during World War II.

Some Straight Talk on "New Models"

July 3, 2012 by Tommer

Adam Huttler takes on the "New Models" mythology on the Fractured Atlas blog.

Who knows if I meet the definition of “expert”, but I’m happy to offer a few thoughts about what exactly is broken with the traditional arts organization construct: administrative bloat, unhealthy risk-aversion, and chronic undercapitalization, to name the first three that spring to mind.

July 2, 2012 by Tommer

NASAA has released the annual State Arts Agency Fiscal Year 2013 Legislative Appropriations Preview report. This document summarizes how state arts agencies fared during this year's budget deliberations and includes information on the appropriations each state arts agency expects to receive for FY2013.

SnaapShot Updates with 2011 Data

June 30, 2012 by Steve

The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an annual online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system out of Indiana University, and a program designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education, has produced a nicely visualized online resource for the data collected in 2011. The data comes from 33,801 respondents to the SNAAP survey, and shows information on the degrees received, their current occupation, income, and debt, among other things. See the SnaapShot here.

The Assembly Line and Failure

June 30, 2012 by Steve

From Chad Bauman at Arts Marketing:

As managers, we like to mitigate risk, thinking that if we could just control our variables just a little more, that we would reach a utopia of risk free theater producing. It's a fool's errand. Since the beginning of the global economic crisis in 2008, the stakes have risen so high that it can feel like we don't have room to fail. But in failure, we find success.

Explore Solidarity Economy resources here

Future of the Field: Cross-Sector Creative Placemaking Series

Video from the GIA 2021 Conference are now available for streaming.

The Racial Equity Coding Project: Unpacking The “Why”

In this first of a three-part discussion, we are joined by Susan Feder, Adam Fong, and Maurine Knighton, as they discuss the Racial Equity Coding Project, why it was started, their experience with the earliest iterations of the coding measures, and how their reflections will inform steps forward.

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