Introducing Keynote Speakers: Celso González Quiñones
Celso González Quiñones, a Puerto Rican artist recognized for his broken slab mosaics — which he works through his company CERO — is one of the 2021 GIA Conference Keynote Speakers. His art is introspective, and in recent years he has developed around 40 public art projects that can be seen in monumental murals throughout the island.
Details and registration here.
Details and registration here.
This Week in the Future of the Field Series
This week, we’re glad to share a creative placemaking reflection authored by M. Simone Boyd, a novelist and neighborhood organizer, in which she discusses Art Against Violence, a project that decided to respond to youth violence with youth employment and engagement while centering people and reflecting community identity.
Read the post here.
Read the post here.
“Artist-Centered Grantmaking & Lives of Artists": Research alert
This is the final part of a two-part series on individual artist support written by Marc Zegans and published by GIA. 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 here.
Read here.
A blog post published by the Wallace Foundation explains “Five Things State and District Leaders Need to Know Now” about the American Rescue Plan, the federal government’s third major COVID-19 relief bill that “provides nearly $2 trillion to support the nation’s efforts to reopen and recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Included is more than $126 billion for K-12 schools and additional funding for early childhood and higher education”…
A new toolkit, “The Arts Organizations at a Crossroads Toolkit: Managing transitions and preserving assets,” published by the National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER), seeks to guide arts leaders through significant transitions they are likely to face during their organization’s life: structural shifts, loss of key staff/leadership, and creation of artistic and physical assets which deserve preserving…
