Why Arts? Making the Case

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Following a successful 2007 program in Santa Fe, members of GIA and Grantmakers for Education (GFE) came together in May 2008 for an Arts and Education Forum in the Boston area. Collectively, over fifty of our members took part in a program that included discussions with government and school leaders, researchers, and inventors. The program examined how one region has tackled the challenge of arts integration and looked at ways that arts and technology could be powerful partners in learning. The following three essays were prepared by participants.

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Between 2006 and 2008, the Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a community development financial institution, on an investigation of the creative sector's potential contribution to neighborhood economic and community development.

Art and Upheaval

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 326 pages. Published by New Village Press, PO Box 3049 Oakland, CA, 94609,  (510) 420-1361, www.newvillagepress.net

The Art of Collaboration

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 16 pages. Arts Education Partnership, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C., 20001, (202) 408-8081, www.aep-arts.org

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The Arts and Workforce Development

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 16 pages. Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005, (202) 371-2830, www.artsusa.org

Contemporary Art + Philanthropy

August 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 103 pages. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney, Australia www.unswpress.com.au (publisher); Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington NSW (sponsor). Available through Hopkins Fulfillment Services, University of Washington Press, (800) 537-5487

arts, inc.

August 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 328 pages. Published by University of California Press

The Center for Arts Education

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 86 pages. The Center for Arts Education, 14 Penn Plaza, 225 West 34th Street, NY, NY 10122, www.cae-nyc.org

Philanthropy and Rural America

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 141 pages. Council on Foundations, 2121 Crystal Drive, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22202 (703) 879-0600, www.cof.org

This robust report features a series of essays on aspects of rural philanthropy from a diverse range of perspectives. The conclusion, by Sherece Y. West, alone is worth the price of admission. The report concludes with a summary of funding recommendations from the Council on Foundations Conference on Philanthropy and Rural America: A 21st Century Agenda, held in August 2007 in Montana.

The Arts & Education Weekend

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Arts and education grantmakers at an historic gathering in Santa Fe in October of 2007 agreed on the need to forge a new vision for public education in the United States and to collectively explore how the arts can help shape and realize that vision.

Convened by Grantmakers in the Arts and Grantmakers for Education, more than 100 foundation representatives met formally for the first time under the aegis of their two affinity organizations to debate and discuss the role of the arts in education.