See You in Oakland!
We’re off to Oakland to get everything ready for the 2018 GIA Conference. The conference begins on Sunday, October 21 and runs through Wednesday, October 24. Please read here an update on our upcoming GIA Conference.
You can follow the convening and join the conversation using the hashtags #RaceSpacePlace and #giarts on social media. GIA will also post updates on our Twitter and Facebook pages. You can also read blog updates on the official conference blog written by Lara Davis (Seattle Office of Arts & Culture), Tram Nguyen (author, editor, and advocate for just and equitable policy), and Nia King (author, producer, cartoonist, podcaster, and public speaker). We’re looking forward to seeing you!
You can follow the convening and join the conversation using the hashtags #RaceSpacePlace and #giarts on social media. GIA will also post updates on our Twitter and Facebook pages. You can also read blog updates on the official conference blog written by Lara Davis (Seattle Office of Arts & Culture), Tram Nguyen (author, editor, and advocate for just and equitable policy), and Nia King (author, producer, cartoonist, podcaster, and public speaker). We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Meet our Final IDEA LAB Artists
For our upcoming conference, we’re excited to announce our final IDEA LAB artists representing People’s Kitchen Collective: Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, an artist, chef, writer, and educator who tells the stories of our migration through food, and Jocelyn Jackson, whose passion for seasonal food, social justice, creativity, and community is rooted in a childhood spent on the Kansas plains.
PKC Co-Founders Saqib Keval, Jocelyn Jackson, and Sita Bhaumik at the Montalvo Arts Center’s Lucas Artist Residency Program. Photo: Tina Case Photography.
Feature from the New Reader
In the upcoming Fall 2018 Reader, one of the special contributions to this issue includes three deeply moving poems by Oakland’s most recent youth poets laureate, Lucy Flattery-Vickness, Azariah Cole-Shephard, and Leila Mottley. Click here to read.
The leadership of America’s nonprofit sector isn’t very diverse, as American Nonprofit Academy emphasizes, but among other organizations working to change that reality is the African American Board Leadership Institute…
An interesting and critical eye on philanthropy can come from different perspectives and that is what “Liberate Philanthropy,” a blog series, published on Medium, precisely does…
Americans continue to be highly engaged in the arts and believe the arts promote personal well-being, that they help us understand other cultures, that they are essential to a well-rounded education, and that government has an important role in funding the arts, according to Americans Speak Out About the Arts in 2018, a research Americans for the Arts recently released…
