Relive the 2020 GIA Convening: Sage Crump, Salome Asega, Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin and Salome Asega, in a conversation moderated by Sage Crump were the Nov. 9 keynote speakers as part of the 2020 GIA Virtual Convening, Power, Practice, Resilience: Remix’d. We also kicked off this convening with a performance by viBe Theater Experience. Watch the video here.

“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” Webinar

Join GIA’s first webinar of 2021 on February 23 to hear from Reina Mukai (Candid.), Ryan Stubbs and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies) as they discuss the latest edition of GIA’s funder snapshot which will be available in the upcoming Fall/Winter 2020/2021 edition of the GIA Reader. 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.

Renew your GIA Membership!

Please renew your Grantmakers in the Arts membership. With your partnership, 2021 promises to be a historic year. Click here.

From the GIA Reader

In “Embedded Art and Culture Is Essential to Our Healing,’’ part of the Summer 2020 issue of the GIA Reader (Volume 31, No. 2), Ariana Faye Allensworth and Terra Graziani discuss the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) and the intersections between housing justice and equity in arts and culture. They also call on funders to support the work of artists and cultural workers who are using art to cultivate and nurture community power. Read here.

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In Case You Missed It: “After a BIPOC Theater Coalition’s Bold Call to Action, Have Funders Stepped Up?”

Inside Philanthropy reminds readers that in July, a coalition of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) theater-makers published an open letter titled “We See You, White American Theatre,” calling for change across the field in areas like hiring, work conditions and programming. This article asks: Five months later, are funders rising to the challenge?…

Philanthropies Condemn Political Violence, Call on Leaders to Protect Democracy and Get Back to the People’s Business

A group of philanthropic organizations signed a joint letter condemning the violence that unfolded January 6 as a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol…