Conference Keynote: john a. powell
The Monday luncheon plenary of the 2018 GIA Conference: Race, Space, and Place will feature john a. powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. powell was formerly the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and he is a co-founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. His latest book is Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.
Register for the 2018 GIA Conference.
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“Round Two: Art and accessibility without assumptions” webinar
In mainstream culture, there are communities and identity groups who are overlooked, devalued, and passively dismissed. As we move towards a more inclusive and equitable culture, it is critical that we evaluate our understanding of how to be more welcoming, inclusive, and equitable. Last year we talked about the history of accessibility in the United States, types of accessibility, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This year we brought back Anne Mulgrave, manager of Grants and Accessibility, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and Leah Krauss, senior program officer for Dance and Special Projects, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and Krauss’ special guest, Alice Sheppard, choreographer and dancer who is disabled. They will provide an overview of welcoming people with disabilities and funding disability arts projects, and they will discuss Sheppard’s piece DESCENT which she says obliterates assumptions of what dance, beauty, and disability can be…”
“Round Two: Art and accessibility without assumptions” will be held Thursday, September 27, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
“Round Two: Art and accessibility without assumptions” will be held Thursday, September 27, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
From the GIA Reader
As we prepare for the 2018 GIA Conference, we review Learning from Detroiters: Committing to Equity, a piece by Roberta Uno, director of Arts in a Changing America, a national project on changing demographics and the arts based at the California Institute of the Arts, addressing ideas from last year’s conference in Detroit. In this piece Uno writes that leading organizations understand the value of contextualization and critical relationship building and are furthering these practices. Uno acknowledges “America is being remapped by its people” and Detroiters are offering invaluable vision.
In light of challenging times, Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz Endowments, examines the role of the courageous leader and the power to make change happen within the philanthropic field and our own culture…
Stories can make us connect in unsuspected ways. A piece by the Stanford Social Innovation Review makes the case for the power of stories to make, prop up, and bring down systems…
The Mellon Public Scholars Program at the University of California, Davis, which introduces graduate students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to the intellectual and practical aspects of identifying, addressing, and collaborating with the public through their scholarship, received support for the next three years from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation…
As the term creative placemaking is increasingly known in arts and culture, community development, and urban planning, a new white paper released by Kresge Foundation explores the value of the field and what it needs to flourish…
In light of demographic changes and disparity of staff in museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors recently launched a pilot internship program to engage undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds and make the staff of these institutions more diverse…
