Youth Development

Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries

November 12, 2009 by Steve

"Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries" was a meeting of 120 funding professionals in the arts, education, or children, youth and family programs of fifty foundations, that was organized by the Getty Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Together with a group of outstanding researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, they explored the value philanthropy can add to education and child development by integrating the arts into schools and non-school programs for children and youth.

Digital Youth Research

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008.

http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu

Over three years, University of California, Irvine researcher Mizuko Ito and her team interviewed over 800 youth and young adults and conducted over 5000 hours of online observations as part of the most extensive U.S. study of youth media use.

A New Day for Youth

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 31 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th floor, New York, NY, 10001, 212-251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/wallace/
whitepaper_noam.pdf

Do Something

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

“What are we doing to cultivate new generations of arts activistsartists, arts managers and arts philanthropers?” This questionoften asked and long massagedhas an equal number of answers to the individuals attempting to answer it. Under the broader umbrella of inspiring young people to make a differencethrough the arts or otherwiseDo Something is an organization that is effectively answering that question with meaningful action.

Toward a 21st Century Public Education

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.

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2006, 53 pages. National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts, 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 302, New York, NY 10018, 212-268-3337, www.nationalguild.org

Download pdf: www.nationalguild.org

Investing in Youth Media

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2006, 32 pages. GFEM, c/o National Video Resources, 73 Spring St. Suite 403, New York, NY 10012, 212-274-8080, www.gfem.org

Download pdf: www.gfem.org

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 31 pages. The Skillman Foundation, 100 Talon Centre Drive, Suite 100, Detroit, MI 48207, 313-393-1185

Download pdf: www.skillman.org

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

The design of GIA's 2007 conference is based on one used in 1993 for a conference in La Jolla, when papers published as the book Alternative Futures fostered lively discussion. We've invited back two authors from that 1993 publication, consultant M. Melanie Beene and conductor Michael Morgan, to revisit themes from their earlier pieces. We reconnected these two particular writers with their shared story in mind.

Imprints

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

As conference co-chairs, neither of whom has lived in New Mexico, we were told that the story of art in New Mexico is a story of place, that the regionits landscape, its convergence of cultures, its sacred spacesdefines what and how art is made. We turned to a number of New Mexico artists and writers to give us their inside views of this remarkable region. Among them is Chrissie Orr, a transplant from Scotland, who makes work informed and formed by New Mexico's physical environment.