Introducing Convening Keynotes: Sage Crump
We’re excited to announce we have Sage Crump as one of the keynotes of the 2020 GIA Virtual Convening, Power, Practice, Resilience: Remix’d. Crump is a culture strategist, artist, and facilitator who expands and deepens the work of cultural workers, and arts organizations in social justice organizing. Crump is the Program specialist at the National Performance Network managing a program that supports arts organizations of color, LANE (Leveraging A Network for Equity). Register now for the 2020 GIA Convening.
Racial Equity Podcast Release: Criminal justice, policing, and arts funding
As part of the 2020 GIA Racial Equity Podcast Series, join us for two podcasts featuring Aisha Edwards and Lauren Pabst (John D. and Catherine T. MacAurthur Foundation); Deborah Fisher (A Blade of Grass), and Shaun Leonardo (artist and performer). They will discuss how funders can center racial equity and justice through grantmaking, and they will provide a frame for addressing issues of policing, mass incarceration, and criminal justice with an arts and culture lens. Listen here.
Webinar Alert! “Arts and Health: Driving us towards stronger communities”
Join GIA’s upcoming webinar on October 27, 2p ET/11am PT in which David Fakunle (DiscoverME/RecoverME), Tasha Golden (International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine), and Jamie Hand (ArtPlace America), authors of the white paper on the Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America initiative, will share the findings of the field scan, the strength of their cross-sector collaboration, and suggestions for what arts and culture funders should consider when funding at the intersection of arts and health in 2020. Details and registration here.
From the GIA Reader
In “Creating Racial Equity in New York City’s Most Segregated Borough,” part of the Summer 2020 issue of the GIA Reader (Volume 31, No. 2), Elizabeth Bennett writes about reflections on addressing racial equity within the arts and culture ecosystem in Staten Island. She details collaboration with the New York Community Trust to support greater opportunity for ALAANA folks as leaders and participants in the borough’s cultural life. Click here to read.
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans Initiative will hold a roundtable titled “Connecting the Dots Between Academics, Broadband, and Culture for Communities of Color” on Tuesday, September 29, at 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST, that will addresses broadband access, education, and cultural competency…
After months of closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) announced recently $1.5 million in grants to help New York City’s cultural institutions build back a more equitable culture and experience…
The Ford Foundation announced last week “an unprecedented $160 million-and-growing initiative called America’s Cultural Treasures, with substantial grants going to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) organizations across the country,” as The Washington Post reported…
The Ford Foundation asked 40 thinkers to reimagine the future of the creative industry in the midst of “the social, racial, and economic reckoning laid bare by COVID-19 and a growing movement for Black lives.” Creative Futures: 40 Provocations to Reimagine the Arts, Documentary, and Journalism is the result of that inquiry, a series of short essays that will unfold through the fall of 2020…
