Register for the 2018 GIA Conference
Registration is open for the 2018 GIA Conference: Race, Space, and Place in Oakland, California. This year’s conference will be held Sunday, October 21 through Wednesday, October 24, featuring over 50 sessions as well as inspiring keynote presentations and performances. GIA members will receive the first opportunity to register and a first look at the conference offerings before they are announced to the public. All GIA members are eligible for discounted conference registration.
Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members
GIA is pleased to introduce our newest member, the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. Welcome!
From the GIA Archive
The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts received funding in 2015 from the National Endowment for the Arts to launch the pilot initiative, Leveraging Change: Improving Access to Arts Education in Rural Areas. The authors conducted research which included a literature review and interviews with arts education leaders in rural areas. Using the research, a pilot convening was held in Massachusetts’ Berkshire County to activate ideas and cross-sector collaboration to strengthen support for arts education in the region. Among other aspects, this initiative revealed numerous barriers to arts education access in rural areas, like lack of funding. Considering the Berkshire County case study, the authors provided recommendations for a common agenda including exposing students and families with different backgrounds to each other through the arts, integrating the arts into career readiness, and identifying funding sources that could be approached through a regional focus including the Department of Housing for rural areas. Read the working paper that summarizes the research results and insights from this initiative.
In an email to colleagues in the field, Maurine Knighton, program director for the Arts, pointed out Stewart’s work over the past six years “has focused on managing grant portfolios and programs that strengthen the cultural sector across the country and elevate artists as thought leaders”…
Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed a $139 billion state budget that includes a $44,080,000 one-time federal Title IV funding for grants enhancing arts education or expanding access to physical and mental health care in schools in fiscal year 2019…
Singer Nina Simone’s childhood home, in Tryon, North Carolina, was named a “National Treasure” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation…
The Jerome Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of its Organization Grants Program. The program supports nonprofit arts organizations based in the state of Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York Cit…
