Grantmakers in the Arts

Kansas Arts Commission Not Eligible for NEA Support

October 31, 2011 by Steve

From John Hanna at Bloomberg Businessweek:

Kansas has been told again by the National Endowment for the Arts that it's not eligible for federal funds, prompting the state Arts Commission's chairwoman to declare that the group will move forward with a "truly Kansas" plan for supporting arts programs with private money.

An NEA official told Gov. Sam Brownback's office in a letter this week that the Kansas Arts Commission remains ineligible for funds because it hasn't demonstrated that it's supported financially by the state. The letter, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, says private contributions would not fulfill the requirement for state support.

October 31, 2011 by Abigail

We are pleased to announce that Rick Kinsel's inaugural post is live on GIA's Talk Back blog. With this comes an open invitation to you and your colleagues to contribute to the conversation on immigration, art, and grantmaking by commenting on the Vilcek Foundation's posts, which will appear throughout the week, and by sharing your own experience of working or funding in this area. Stay tuned!

October 31, 2011 by Steve

Happy Halloween!

October 29, 2011 by Steve

A new report suggests an emerging pattern of success among marginalized students participating in Hip-Hop education, leading to higher attendance and graduation rates. Re-Imagining Teaching and Learning: A Snapshot of Hip-Hop Education, released Friday, of a national scan of Hip-Hop educational programs by the Hip-Hop Education Center (H2ED Center) at the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro Center) at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

October 28, 2011 by admin

Laura Barnett writes this article in The Guardian stating United Kingdom arts organizations are compensating for the lack of arts in schools. This is the slippery slope the USA has been on for decades relying on the nonprofit sector to provide accessibility to arts learning that should be inherent for every child in every pubilc school.

October 28, 2011 by Tommer

"There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them -- designers -- contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts. Artists and Arts Workers in the United States offers the first combined analysis of artists and industries, state and metro employment rates, and new demographic information such as age, education levels, income, ethnicity, and other social characteristics."

Ian Moss: Dispatch from the Bay Area

October 28, 2011 by Steve

Ian David Moss reports on his GIA conference experience at his blog, createquity.com:

It’s hard to generalize from my experience this year, and I am always conscious of the fact that the intellectual diet that I feed on at the conference is shaped by my own tastes. But in general, there seemed to be a real thirst for innovation that was just a bit more urgent than in previous years. The sessions that drew the most positive attention were, by and large, the boldest: the ones that dared to seriously question the status quo or chart forward a path that hasn’t been tried before.

October 27, 2011 by Steve

ARTSblog's continuing coverage of the 2011 GIA conference continues today with a report from Marete Wester on her Roundtable discussion, “Funding & Changing Business Models”:

Ian David Moss and Dianne Debicella of Fractured Atlas, and Dennis Scholl of the Knight Foundation started off the discussion on how different funding strategies and new business models can be employed to support creative ventures, and provide “risk-funding” artists need to launch a new project or artistic enterprise.

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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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