Grantmakers in the Arts

October 15, 2011 by Steve

Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer reports on the session on Art and Aging, The Big Shift: The Velocity of Change in America's Aging Society, presented on Monday morning at the GIA conference in San Francisco:

“Age is a time to bloom, a time of great fertility, a time to celebrate their best work when they are ‘over the hill’,” said Marc Freedman, founder and CEO, Civic Ventures. “People think genius happens early in life but actually many artists were late bloomers such as Paul Cézanne.

October 14, 2011 by Tommer

Appropriart! A graphic article about copyright by Susie Cagle, commissioned by GIA and the Media Democracy Fund for the Fall 2011 GIA Reader is featured on Boing Boing this week.

October 14, 2011 by Steve

Conference blogger Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer reports on Mondays' morning plenary keynote performance from Marc Bamuthi Joseph:

As a conference blogger, I sat at Marc’s Keynote Performance at the Plenary Breakfast Session on Monday at the Grantmakers for the Arts 2011 Conference, confident in capturing the essence of the experience while having my morning coffee with a ballroom full of my colleagues.

It became very clear that Marc operates at speeds unfamiliar to most people and I was left both delighted and bewildered by his message.

October 14, 2011 by Steve

The inimitable Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, our third official conference blogger, checks in post-conference with a rundown of her preconference experience. Photos, and Hoong Yee drawings enrich the report. Look forward to more from her as she documents her San Francisco Conference experience.

GIA Wrap Up

October 13, 2011 by Steve

Barry Hessenius' final blog for the GIA 2011conference.

My take-away from this conference is that the arts funder’s legacy of acting pretty much alone is no longer thought to be the preferred way to approach goals, and certainly not a viable way to deal with the “velocity of change” that was the theme of the gathering. I think the potential of this sleeping giant may in the not too distant future surprise even themselves.

October 13, 2011 by Steve

Richard Kessler's final blog post of the GIA 2011 conference:

October 12, 2011 by Steve

Richard Kessler gives his high points on Tuesday at the San Francisco conference:

Mason Bates represents change in a vitally important way. He is, in so many respects, representative of the modern American composer. He’s hip, smart, also a DJ, draws upon a palatte that is not limited, by a long shot, by what most consider to be “classical” music, and here’s the best part, he’s one of two composers in residence with the orchestra that I consider to be among the most tradition bound. It’s the orchestra considered by many to be the standard bearer of quality and tradition. Not known for relationships with the American experimentalists nor great shape shifters of the 20th and 21st centuries, in my mind, the appointment of Mason Bates should be enough for people to rethink their long held opinions of what canonical organizations are and aren’t. Oh, and yes, by the way, he can compose.

Day 2 Report from Barry Hessenius

October 12, 2011 by Steve

Barry checks in from San Francisco on Tuesday:

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