The Field Foundation: Member Spotlight

For this month, GIA’s photo banner features organizations supported by The Field Foundation. The majority of the foundation’s grantees are African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) organizations located on Chicago’s south and west sides. Read here about The Field Foundation.

Last Week to Submit Call for Sessions: 2019 GIA Conference

Grantmakers in the Arts is currently seeking session proposals for the 2019 GIA Conference, the largest annual convening of arts funders, to be held October 13-16 in Denver, Colorado. Proposals must be submitted by March 20 at 5pm EDT. To submit your proposals, visit our Call for Sessions page.

From the GIA Reader

In the Fall 2018 issue of the GIA Reader, in “Challenging Space Affordability: Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST)”, Shelley Trott, director of Arts Strategy and Ventures, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and Moy Eng, executive director, CAST, discuss their experiences in the Bay Area, how the issue of space inaffordability emerged and changed, and how, from institutional positions, they intervene. Read here.

Relive the 2018 GIA Conference: Tuesday IDEA LAB

At the 2018 GIA Conference’s Tuesday IDEA LAB, jazz vocalist Meklit, conductor Michael Morgan, and transgender choreographer/dancer Sean Dorsey presented thought-provoking ideas around their work that proved why they break barriers and challenge the norm. Enjoy the video.

“Revisiting Creative Approaches to Capitalization and Capacity Building” Webinar

At the Grantmakers in the Arts 2018 Conference, we offered a conference session on capitalization where participants shared best practices and explored creative solutions for when restrictions make capitalization and capacity building much more difficult. But how did that work out? What were the solutions and how can you build on that? Now is your chance to explore what you missed or revisit this topic once again.

Join us on Tuesday, March 26, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT to hear from Anna Campbell, senior program officer, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Roman Jackson, program officer, JP Morgan. They will guide us through some brief capitalization fundamentals, revisit case studies, and compare outcomes from this GIA 2018 conference session. Details and registration here.

Supporting creative aging in rural areas is the driving force behind Iowa Arts Learning in Libraries, an effort of the State Library of Iowa and the Iowa Arts Council to offer free arts classes for adults 55 and older in rural public libraries…

“We take up space/ By being in community/ Together/ And saying that we/ Won’t tolerate this/ Anymore,” writes community activist Jasmin Rogers, honoring the community of women who support her every day. Her words, published in a piece by The Miami Herald, resonate in commemoration of Women’s History Month in March…

Last year, the League of American Orchestras partnered with The Sphinx Organization and New World Symphony launching the National Alliance for Audition Support, an initiative to increase Latinx and Black orchestra players in the country…

Participatory grantmaking, according to an article by Inside Philanthropy, is drawing more attention these days if you consider “a growing body research, the Foundation Center’s embrace of the topic embrace of the topic, and heightened interest and field-building support from large institutions like the Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundations”…

The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund awarded $1.5 million NYC Health + Hospitals and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City to launch the Arts in Medicine program, which seeks to expand programs serving health care staff, patients, and communities across the city…