Foundation management

The Artist as Philanthropist: Strengthening the Next Generation of Artist-Endowed Foundations

November 25, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

2013, 211 pages, The Aspen Institute, One Dupont Circle NW, Ste 700, Washington, DC, 20036, 202-736-5800 www.aspeninstitute.org

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Building a Resilient Sector

September 16, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore.

— André Gide

Life, Learning, and Legacy

September 16, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

As arts philanthropy evolves in the twenty-first century, one constant remains at the center — the artist. And longtime funder, advocate, and activist Ted Berger has devoted his professional career as well as an equally busy retirement to making artists a central focus of his life.

The Knowledge-Centric Arts Organization

September 13, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. Uncontrolled and unorganized information is no longer a resource in an information society, instead it becomes the enemy.
— John Naisbitt, Megatrends: 10 New Directions Transforming Our Lives (1982)

June 14, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

I am currently writing an essay for a university art gallery exhibition catalog about how the early nineteenth-century invention of photography marked a change in art and spiritual consciousness; and thus dwelling on the postindustrial trajectories of art and science. I have so many extra notions that I created this separate cloud of thought. Apologies if this musing seems too general. I present it here to excite dialogue and receive feedback through the GIA Reader.

February 5, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

Cheese and crackers in the boardroom? Standard fare.

Puppetry and handwriting analysis? Not so much. Nonetheless, there was a line out the door of the boardroom at the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, where the Council on Foundations’ annual conference was taking place. Conferees awaited their personalized encounter with the LA-based arts group the Machine Project, which was also offering mind-reading workshops, cheese music, and concerts of Renaissance lute and vocal music.

February 2, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

January 2013, 36 pages. Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, 114 Sansome Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, California, 94104. (415) 856-1400 http://www.haasjr.org/

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December 10, 2012 by giarts-ts-admin

Dynamic Adaptability: Arts and Culture Puget Sound was a series of conferences for cultural sector leaders sponsored by a consortium of five funders in the Puget Sound: The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The Boeing Company, 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and The Seattle Foundation. This initiative was a response to a March 2009 study about the effects of the recession on area cultural institutions and their needs at this time.

March 25, 2012 by giarts-ts-admin

20 pages, March 2012. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, (212) 251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org.

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April 15, 2011 by giarts-ts-admin

2010, 236 pages, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco