Relive the 2020 GIA Convening: Maysoon Zayid
Actress, comedian, writer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid was the November 16 keynote speaker as part of the 2020 GIA Virtual Convening, Power, Practice, Resilience: Remix’d. We also kicked off this convening day with a performance by Life Escobar.
Watch the video here.
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.) and 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.
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.
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Arts Activation Fund: Corona Memorials, a public-private partnership between the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Community Partners, seeks to commission approximately 70 creative-tributes by 70 lead artists “to reflect the lifetime of a person who has died from COVID-19 by engaging the family or dearest friends of the deceased”…
An article in The Washington Post discusses a movement of arts workers that “asserts that the arts are as foundational as farming or manufacturing” with “an aim reinforced daily by the financial devastation the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the nation’s creative economy”…
Miguel Cardona, President Joe Biden’s pick to become the next U.S. education secretary, “considered majoring in art education — influenced by an excellent art teacher he had,” as The Hechinger Report stated recently…
