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Category Archives: GIA
Live from GIA: Day IV – Brunch with Rocco
(crossposted at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference Blog)
Wednesday morning, a crush of arts funders, news media, and video crew crowded along with your friendly blogger host for the final GIA Conference event: a speech by Rocco Landesman, the recently appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Other than a talk at Symphony [...]
Live (sort of) from GIA: Day IV – Changing the Game
(crossposted at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference Blog)
My final day at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference began with a GREAT panel on “new models, new leaders, new ideas” for arts organizations and philanthropy, organized and moderated by Marc Vogl from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (Disclosure: I worked closely with Marc last [...]
Live from GIA: Day III – Building Arts Participation in Rural America
Tuesday closed out with a panel featuring the Montana Arts Council’s experience with a Wallace Foundation-led initiative to cultivate new audiences for the arts. With folksy aplomb, Cinda Holt took us into the heart of the Montana frontier and described the initiative’s successes and failures with Wallace’s Ann Stone looking on.
Stone began with an explanation [...]
Live from GIA: Day III – The Art of Change
Tuesday afternoon featured a session on advocacy for arts organizations and foundations, organized by Janet Brown of Grantmakers in the Arts and Bob Lynch of Americans for the Arts. Lynch could not attend as scheduled, but sent Chief Counsel of Government and Public Affairs Nina Ozlu Tunceli in his stead. Brown and Tunceli were joined [...]
Live from GIA: Day III – Lunchtime Keynote with Kakuna Kerina
(crossposted from the GIA Conference Blog)
Following the conclusion of the Sewing Sails in a Perfect Storm panel, we headed to the ballroom for a lunchtime plenary session with Kakuna Kerina, former executive director of Harlem School of the Arts. Grantmakers in the Arts executive director Janet Brown opened the session with a brief annual meeting, [...]
Live from GIA: Day III – Sewing Sails in a Perfect Storm
(crossposted from the GIA Conference Blog)
Moderated by Bill Cleveland of the Center for the Study of Art and Community, this session focused on two foundations that have made sweeping changes to their program strategy in the past year. The Boston Foundation, represented by Ann McQueen, recently announced a foundation-wide move toward a venture philanthropy model [...]
Live from GIA: Day III – Not Asking Nonprofits to Do More with Less
(crossposted from the GIA Conference Blog)
The third day of the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference opened with another set of breakfast roundtables. I attended “Not Asking Nonprofits to Do More with Less, Or the Uneasy Art of Communicating with Our Grantees During a Downturn,” facilitated by my former colleague Julie Fry of the William and [...]
Live from GIA: Day II – Arts, Culture, and Community Economic Development
(cross-posted at the GIA Conference Blog)
On Monday, I attended an off-site session at chashama’s 126th Street artist studios, which provides workspace for 38 artists in a rapidly gentrifying area of Harlem. The subject of the meeting, appropriately, was the arts and economic development. Organized by GIA board member Janet Rodriguez, the session featured remarks from [...]
Live from GIA: Day II – Resources for International Exchange and the Ballad of American Arts
(cross-posted at the GIA Conference Blog)
The jam-packed days of the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference are now in full swing, and yesterday’s was especially full to the brim. Our morning started bright and early at 8:00 with a selection of “breakfast roundtables”: informal topical discussions over croissants, yogurts, and coffee. I attended the Resources [...]
Final thoughts on the GIA Conference
conferences and talks