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Relive the 2019 GIA Conference: Monday IDEA LAB
GIA 2019 Conference: Monday IDEA LAB
As we start our look back at the 2019 GIA Conference, GIA President & CEO Edwin Torres and Denver Deputy Mayor Allegra “Happy” Haynes welcome us to our annual convening in Denver, Colorado. Margaret Hunt, director of Colorado Creative Industries, introduces a panel of artists at the Monday IDEA LAB featuring Suzi Q. Smith, Bruce Odland, and Stephen Malloy Brackett and Garrett Ammon. Watch here.
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
A Language Access Fund in NYC: Grants for Arts Programs in Languages Other Than English
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, through the newly launched Create NYC Language Access Fund, awarded recently 36 local nonprofits grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 to bolster their arts and culture programs, Hyperallergic reported…
A Program Allows Minor Offenders To Substitute Jail Time for an Art Class
Project Reset, a program in New York City, allows people arrested for low-level offenses like fare beating and painting graffiti, among others, to avoid jail or court appearance by taking a two-hour course at the Brooklyn Museum, Hyperallergic reports…
Tom DeCaigny, New Executive Director of the California Alliance for Arts Education
The California Alliance for Arts Education recently announced that Tom DeCaigny has been named the new executive director, beginning in late February…
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…

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