December Web Conference: Arts, Environment, and Place
The next GIA web conference, Arts, Environment, and Place, will be held on Tuesday, December 6 at 2pm EST / 11am PST. This session will discuss how funders can think about arts strategies to support place-based work that addresses environmental sustainability. Alexis Frasz will present Helicon Collaborative’s research on how culture is supporting environmental efforts in communities across the country and F. Javier Torres will discuss how ArtPlace America is connecting art with environment in its creative placemaking work.
Member Spotlight: Warhol Foundation
For the months of November and December, GIA's photo banner features Common Field, a project supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts ("Warhol Foundation"). The Warhol Foundation was established in 1987 out of a provision in artist Andy Warhol's will that the majority of his estate be used to create a foundation dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts.
New from the GIA Reader: Shaping a Brighter Future
In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader entitled “Shaping a Brighter Future: the Canada Council Transforms for the Next Generation,” Simon Brault, director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, writes about how the agency underwent institutional transformation with a new funding model and strategic plan to better serve a changing nation.
The 2016 annual report from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project reveals the results of a survey in 2015 of arts alumni of 53 higher education institutions across the US and into Canada…
A recent article on Createquity reviews literature on the benefits of the arts for older adults…
The report, Nonprofit Media Coverage of the Arts in California: Challenges and Opportunities, is the first of its kind…
Americans for the Arts, as part of its National Initiative for Arts and Health in the Military, has published a national directory of arts-related programs, services, and resources for military service members…
