Video: Kevin Kling at the 2016 GIA Conference
Minnesota author, playwright, and teller of tales Kevin Kling delivered the keynote address at the Tuesday Luncheon Plenary of the 2016 GIA Conference in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Watch the video here.
February Webinar: Implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act
The next GIA webinar, Implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act in Your State and Local Community, will be held on Tuesday, February 28 at 1pm EST / 10am PST. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) enacted in 2015 included several important arts education provisions that will systemically embed the arts into K–12 public education. In this session, Alex Nock from Penn Hill Group will discuss how the new Administration will implement these provisions. Nock will also discuss how funders and organizations working at the local level can use the opportunities provided in ESSA to advocate for the arts as a systemic part of state education, including articulating state strategies for providing all students with equitable access to a well-rounded education.
New from the GIA Reader: Creating Sustainable Places for Artists
In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader entitled “Artspace: Creating Sustainable Places for Artists,” Linda Picone explores the work and impact of Artspace, an organization that provides affordable housing for artists across the country.
New GIA Members
GIA is pleased to introduce two new members that joined in December, Boulder Office of Arts + Culture and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Welcome!
A recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review advocates a “shift from a framework that grounds giving in ‘charity’ to one that grounds giving in ‘justice’”…
Andrea Noble-Pelant from [Eagle River, Alaska], was recently appointed as the new executive director of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. She served as acting executive director since May 2016…
The New York Community Trust has announced a new program called The Liberty Fund, a “special funding opportunity to help New York City nonprofits address immediate issues affecting vulnerable New Yorkers”…
Sotheby’s is hiring Christy MacLear, the chief executive of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and before that the executive director of the Philip Johnson Glass House, to expand the auction house’s advisory services for living artists and for artists’ estates and foundations…
