Welcome back!
GIA has an exciting year ahead with a diverse range of online learning, racial equity workshops across the country, and our annual conference which will take place in Denver, October 13-16. We wish you a great year ahead!
Member Survey Closing
Before it closes this week, please take a moment to complete our member survey to help us assess our programs and services.
From the GIA Reader
In the Fall 2018 issue of the GIA Reader, in “What More Do We Need to Cultivate a Just Society?: Conversion and collective action,” Lisa Yancey addresses the ideal of a just society and proposes a new perspective that “embraces and celebrates differences and otherness in order to create the space for greater openness to and empathy for differences.” Read it here.
“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” Webinar
In the upcoming Winter 2019 edition of the GIA Reader, the latest edition of GIA’s annual funder snapshot will include “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2016,” based on the most recent completed year of Foundation Center data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2018,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA). How have things changed since the last GIA funder snapshot in April 2018, and what can we look forward to for 2019?
Reina Mukai (Foundation Center), Ryan Stubbs, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (NASAA), will share a summary of key findings and insights into what these findings reveal about the current arts grantmaking environment, as well as an introduction to what we can expect for the new year.
“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” will be held Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
Reina Mukai (Foundation Center), Ryan Stubbs, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (NASAA), will share a summary of key findings and insights into what these findings reveal about the current arts grantmaking environment, as well as an introduction to what we can expect for the new year.
“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” will be held Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
Mimi Levitt, a respected patron of the arts and historic conservation, died on January 6 of natural causes at her home in New York. Levitt believed in the arts as a source for positive social change and left a lasting legacy of generosity and service to the causes she supported, informed the Levitt Foundation…
“We’re creative, we’re affordable, and you can help us stay that way.” That is Des Moines’ pitch to artists as Iowa’s capital grows, according to an article in City Lab…
A new report by the Education Commission of the States delves into education policy areas where arts in education leaders and stakeholders can expand opportunities to engage the arts in policy solutions…
As we welcome 2019, ideas around a more just and fair philanthropic field are inevitable. Dana Kawaoka-Chen, executive director for Justice Funders, says “we need a just transition in philanthropy that redistributes wealth, democratizes power, and shifts economic control to communities. In other words, we must transform our relationship to capital and to our communities”…
