From the GIA Reader

In the Fall 2018 issue of the GIA Reader, in “Arts Access: Messy, hard, oh-so-worthwhile work,” Emily Smith Beitiks, associate director at the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, addresses the institute’s experience preparing the exhibit Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights and the importance of equity and inclusion encompassing people with disabilities. Read the article here.

Relive the 2018 GIA Conference: Welcoming remarks

Today we start sharing videos from the Race, Space, and Place GIA Conference. In this one, Eddie Torres, GIA president & CEO, welcomes us to Oakland and discusses the GIA response to the Marriott International employees striking at the Oakland Marriott City Center. Then, Shelley Trott, director of Arts Strategy & Ventures at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, introduces Mayor Libby Schaaf whose hometown hosted us. Watch the video.

“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 EST / 11:00am PST. Details and registration available here.

In data, “many untold stories and futures are nestled between rows, columns, formulas, and colors on a spreadsheet,” writes in a recent post Adriana Gallego, chief operating officer of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. In this piece she says how patterns remind her of how impactful Latinx communities are…

“Philanthropy hasn’t done a lot for poetry,” said Elizabeth Alexander, poet and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to The New York Times. Her words are a strong reminder of how underfunded is poetry. But this week, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced that it awarded $2.2 million to the Academy of American Poets…

Starting as a three-year pilot program and with partners in Australia, Canada, and the US, the Global First Nations Performance Network was recently launched during the First Nations Dialogues Lenapehoking/New York, a series of events that took place January 5-12 highlighting Indigenous performers…