Webinar Alert: “Arts Funding at Twenty-Five” Today
A presentation of the report “Arts Funding at Twenty-Five: What data and analysis continue to tell funders about the field,” offered by Steven Lawrence, marks today the beginning of the 2018 GIA Webinar Series. Lawrence will review key findings and highlight more recent funding data that suggest the arts are not keeping pace with other sectors. This webinar will be facilitated by GIA President and CEO Eddie Torres.
“Arts Funding at Twenty-Five” will be held today, March 27, at 2 pm EDT / 11 am PDT. Details and registration available here.
“Arts Funding at Twenty-Five” will be held today, March 27, at 2 pm EDT / 11 am PDT. Details and registration available here.
Support for Individual Artists Committee – GIA Welcomes New Members
GIA is pleased to announce 8 new members from across the nation, and a new co-chair, to the Support for Individual Artists Committee. GIA members have been working together to promote and improve funding for individual artists for more than 20 years. The Committee has been one of the most active groups of funders within GIA serving the field through a variety of projects including: a scan of scholarly research on artist support; a visual timeline outlining the history of artist support funding, major publications, and programs; and the development of a national taxonomy for reporting data on support for individual artists. Visit our Support for Individual Artists page where you will find the updated list of the Committee members. Welcome!
“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” Webinar
Published in the Winter 2018 edition of GIA Reader, the latest edition of GIA’s annual Arts Funding Snapshot includes “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2015,” based on the most recent completed year of Foundation Center data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2017,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA).
Join Reina Mukai, research manager for the Foundation Center, and Ryan Stubbs, research director for NASAA, for a summary of key findings, as well as insight into what these findings reveal about the current arts grantmaking environment. Session 2 of the 2018 GIA Webinar Series will take place on Tuesday, April 10, at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT. Details and registration available here.
Call for Sessions for the 2018 Conference is Now Closed
Grantmakers in the Arts has closed the call for sessions for the 2018 Conference in Oakland, California that will be held from Sunday, October 21 through Wednesday, October 24. The GIA Conference is the largest annual convening of arts funders and the most comprehensive opportunity for our colleagues in the field to learn from each other. We thank you for your ideas and we look forward to a rich and engaging conference in “Oaktown.” For information on the conference, please visit our conference webpage.
New from the GIA Reader
Published in the Winter 2018 edition of the GIA Reader, in “Advancing Livability: A tool to help funders leverage creative placemaking,” Alyce Myatt, a consultant working at the intersection of culture, media arts, and philanthropy, writes about the importance of funders using tools to measure impact and the capacity of that impact to bring about change. As part of effective creative placemaking, Myatt discusses how mapping arts and culture alongside demographic, economic, crime and safety, and other data allows stakeholders to visualize how resources are distributed and how this distribution changes over time in the process of improving the livability of a community.
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