Updates for the 2018 Conference
Grantmakers in the Arts is excited 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. Registration opens in June but please visit our conference website where all updates will be shared.
Meanwhile, to feed our excitement for this year’s conference in Oakland, enjoy the opening keynote at the 2011 Conference in San Francisco by Poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
Meanwhile, to feed our excitement for this year’s conference in Oakland, enjoy the opening keynote at the 2011 Conference in San Francisco by Poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
Renew your GIA Membership
If you still need to renew your GIA membership, you can now renew your GIA 2018 Membership online.
From the GIA Reader
In “Placemaking and Placemakers: Lessons from Detroit, Appalachia, New Orleans, and Honolulu,” published in the Winter 2014 edition of the GIA Reader Mark Valdez, executive director of the Network of Ensemble Theaters from 2007-2015, details an engaging project journeying across five states looking at the positive impact that art and artists were having on communities around the country. Valdez reflects on the project, MicroFest USA: Revitalize, Reconnect, Renew, and illuminates findings from the process about the impacts of cross-sector and collaborative creative placemaking.
New Orleans will be the meeting point for dozens of funders at the EDGE Funders Alliance Conference, which will take place from April 17 - 20 to discuss ideas around their commitment to global social change philanthropy…
“What does culture have to do with sustainability?” A report by Helicon Collaborative, commissioned by ArtPlace, begins with this question to make the case for how place-based arts and cultural interventions, or “creative placemaking,” advance sustainability outcomes in the context of community development…
The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has been awarded a new five-year grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, extending a partnership that has supported Chicago’s smallest arts and culture organizations for almost two decades…
Philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs) and funder collaboratives have demonstrated flexibility, agility, and a willingness to collaborate in the evolving political environment that has unfolded since the 2016 presidential campaign…
