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Welcome Back to You and Our Incoming Board Members!
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 New York, November 15-18. We wish you a great year ahead!

We also welcome our incoming members to the GIA board of directors.
  • Long Chu, program officer, The Houston Endowment
  • Michelle Coffey, executive director, The Lambent Foundation
  • Adriana Gallego
  • Emiko Ono, director, Performing Arts Program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Zeyba Rahman, senior program officer, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
  • Quita Sullivan, program director for Theatre, New England Foundation for the Arts
We are looking forward to the journey ahead!
A GIA Summit on Support for Individual Artists - A Trip Down Memory Lane: Activism, Culture, and the Individual Artist
Support for artists have a long and varied history in the United States. While much has changed, there remains a large space for understanding what it takes to be an artist today and to support an artist today. Join us and our partners, New York Grantmakers in the Arts (NYGIA) for this summit, hosted by Philanthropy New York on January 29, to hear from folks in the field as we explore conversations about artistic freedom, censorship, activism, and decency standards, and the role philanthropy plays.

Presenters include:
  • Suzy Delvalle, president and executive director, Creative Capital
  • Charles Rice Gonzalez, writer and co-founder, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
  • Miguel Luciano, visual artist
  • Liza Jessie Peterson, playwright
  • Dread Scott, revolutionary artist
Details and registration here.
GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture Webinar
In the upcoming Winter 2020 edition of the GIA Reader, the latest edition of GIA’s funder snapshot will include “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2017,” based on the most recent completed year of Candid. data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2018,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA).

Join us on February 11 to hear from Reina Mukai (Candid.), Ryan Stubbs (NASAA), and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (NASAA). They 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. Details and registration here.
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News from the Field
James “Yaya” Hough, Who Spent 27 Years in Prison, is the Philadelphia DA’s Office First Artist in Residence
Artist James “Yaya” Hough, an accomplished artist who was formerly incarcerated, will be the first artist-in-residence in a Philadelphia government agency, the District Attorney’s Office…
Helping Artists Thrive Embedding Equity in the Philanthropic Field
In a video series “Further Together: Helping artists thrive,” the Kenneth Rainin Foundation moves forward equity conversations for a better philanthropic field as it asked its leaders to look to the future…
By Introducing a New Process, a Foundation Seeks to Ease Application Burdens
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program, a grant program that provides project support to small and mid-size dance, theater, and multidisciplinary arts organizations that enable Bay Area artists to produce timely, visionary projects, has rethought its application process…
Philanthropy's Path To Redefine Efficiency
“In a crisis, short-term efficiency can be a shock amplifier. Long-term efficiency comes from building resilient institutions,” states Andrés Spokoiny, president of the Jewish Funders Network, in a recent article in Stanford Social Innovation Review

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