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Special Event: A Celebration on the Mississippi River
On Tuesday evening at the 2016 GIA Conference, attendees will gather on the shore of the Mississippi River for a special program and dinner. The evening’s program will celebrate the rich Native American history of the region, with a special performance by Native Pride Dancers, an artist marketplace, and dinner provided by The Sioux Chef, a Native American catering company led by Chef Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota.

The 2016 GIA Conference will be held October 16-19 in Saint Paul, MN. Register for the conference today!
September Web Conference: Bringing Artists Together
The next GIA web conference, Bringing Artists Together: Support through Convening, will be held on Tuesday, September 27 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT. Jonathon Glus from Houston Arts Alliance and Meg Leary from United States Artists will present examples of how artist convenings can be utilized to cultivate connections between artists and other professionals for the advancement of the artists’ careers.

Related material from the archive: You may also be interested in viewing the Support for Individual Artists Timeline.
New from the GIA Reader: Performing Artists in Sacred Spaces
GIA Reader, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 2016)
In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader, Creating Space: Performing Artists in Sacred Spaces, Neville K. Vakharia and Karen DiLossi report on the use of churches and other sacred spaces as venues for the performing arts at large.
New GIA Members
GIA is pleased to introduce two new members that joined in August, Bohemian Foundation and The Field Foundation of Illinois. Welcome!
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News from the Field
Making Sense of Cultural Equity: New Article from Createquity
The further we delved into the literature around cultural equity, and the more we consulted experts and connected with some of the activists who precede us, the more we came to realize that shared understanding simply doesn’t exist…
Lori Pourier Named One of Four Native Women Leading Change in Native Communities
A blog post from the Johnson Scholarship Foundations highlights the work of four Native American women in nonprofits and philanthropy who are driving change in their communities. Lori Pourier, executive director of First People’s Fund…

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