Introducing Keynote Speakers: Beta-Local
Representatives from Beta-Local, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico dedicated to supporting and promoting aesthetic thought and practices through programs like La Práctica, The Harbor, and La Ivan Illich, will be one of the 2021 GIA Conference Keynote Speakers. For more details and registration, click here.
September Member Spotlight – UMEZ
This month’s Member Spotlight is on the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ).
Read about the organization’s work here.
Read about the organization’s work here.
“Artist-Centered Grantmaking & Lives of Artists”: Research alert
GIA’s most recent research alert is on the first part of a two-part series on individual artist support written by Marc Zegans. Following-up to his GIA Reader article from 2017, Zegans offers his perspective on the cycle of creative growth that artists experience throughout their careers, and opportunities for grantmakers to re-examine how they develop and adjust their practices to meet nonlinear needs.
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
A Hyperallergic article discusses how Julia Weist, one of four 2019–2020 New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs’s Public Artists in Residence, was paired with the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) and in doing so, “she dedicated herself to parsing the relationship between the city and its artists as documented in these vast municipal archives”…
A recent article in Next City discusses how residents of Grand Marais, Minnesota “faced the loss of their only major highway due to necessary but disruptive construction” and how “seeking ways to support the residents during this disruptive process, the local government brought in artist Amanda Lovelee to turn the project into something productive for the community”…
