National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman delivered a keynote address today to close the 2009 national Grantmakers in the Arts conference: Navigating the Art of Change. Read the full text of the address here. Chairman Landesman announced that … Continue reading
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin
Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ian David Moss
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 … Continue reading
Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ian David Moss
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 … Continue reading
Posted on October 19, 2009 by Ian David Moss
The 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference officially opened on Sunday night with a half-salmon-half-chicken dinner (something for everyone, I guess?), welcoming remarks, housekeeping notes, a performance, and a keynote by pollster and author John Zogby. The strange tensions of … Continue reading
Posted on October 19, 2009 by Ian David Moss
A strikingly diverse group of arts funders gathered at the Pratt Institute Sunday morning for the Arts and Social Justice Preconference. GIA’s Arts and Social Justice Committee is a relatively new phenomenon; this all-day session represented only its third official … Continue reading
Posted on October 18, 2009 by Ian David Moss
Live from New York, this is Ian David Moss reporting from the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, “Navigating the Art of Change.” The recession figures to play a big role in this year’s discussions, as funders grapple with how … Continue reading
Posted on October 12, 2009 by Tommer
The popular Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rush Tickets program returns for its third season. Thanks to a generous gift from Met Board member Agnes Varis and her husband, Karl Leichtman, two hundred orchestra seats are available for $20 for … Continue reading
Posted on October 7, 2009 by Tommer
This report focuses on how community philanthropies – community foundations, loan funds, and others – are using mission investing to address these fundamental inequities in their communities. The social inequities shaped by race, ethnicity, class, and gender and sexual orientation … Continue reading
Posted on October 7, 2009 by Tommer
What defines “fair use” in dance? Is it permissible to “borrow” choreographic devices if the movement is reinvented? If the dancers can’t execute the movement in the way it was originally intended, is there something interesting about that failure? If … Continue reading
Posted on October 6, 2009 by Janet
So it seems that the Big Government blog and Big Hollywood blog have been making big noise in the blogosphere about the NEA, the White House and artists. They have turned a small conversation to encourage “volunteerism in America” into a conspiracy of grants for political support. Of course, anyone who has any real working knowledge about the NEA knows how distorted and false these allegations are.