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The Funder and the Intermediary, in Support of the Artist: A Look at Rationales, Roles, and Relationships

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 2:00 EDT / 11:00 PDT [PASSED]

  • Claudia Bach, Principal, AdvisArts
  • Vickie Benson, Arts Program Director, The McKnight Foundation
  • Cora Mirikitani, President and CEO, Center for Cultural Innovation

Session 1 of the 10-part 2014 Web Conference Series

A recording of this presentation is available here.

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

2014, 19 pages, The Aspen Institute, One Dupont Circle NW, Ste 700, Washington, DC, 20036, 202-736-5800   www.aspeninstitute.org

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$330 Million Pledged to Save Detroit’s Art Collection

From Randy Kennedy and Steven Yaccino, writing for The New York Times:

National and local philanthropic foundations have committed $330 million toward a deal that would help preserve the Detroit Institute of Arts’ renowned collection by bolstering the city’s employee pension funds, federal mediators involved in the city’s bankruptcy proceedings announced Monday.

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

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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My Grantmakers In the Arts 2013 Conference. I’m Sensing an Evolution.

A few weeks back I was invited to attend the 2013 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Philadelphia as a Conference Blogger. I joined Barry Hessenius (Barry’s Blog) and a whole team of bloggers, led by Ian David Moss (Createquity), from Fractured Atlas. I wrote three posts summarizing the activities I attended and reflecting on key themes, which you can find here. I vowed (to myself) that I would let the conference sink in a bit and then write a post for Jumper–a brief summary of the sticky points, if you will. This is that post.

GIA Conference Provides Encouragement

Janet Langsman, CEO of ArtsWestchester, writes this editorial for the Daily Voice of Bedford, New York:

Conferences are great tools for encouragement, inspiration and in some cases confirmation. The Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) conference this week in Philadelphia did not disappoint.

Who do arts funders exist to serve?

Diane Ragsdale wraps up her coverage of the GIA 2013 Conference on the conference blog:

Rather than writing up a daily roundup of the sessions I attended at GIA I decided to reflect upon them thematically. The overarching theme of this year’s conference was “The New Creative Community.” In my last post I discussed how this theme seemed to manifest in a general orientation toward the role of the individual artist in moving the field forward. I wrote:
For the first time in a long time I was at an arts conference in which artists (rather than organizations) seemed to have primacy. Where are the new ideas going to come from? Artists. Where does the energy to create community organically originate? Artists. Who are the entrepreneurs in the arts and culture sector? Artists.

Who do arts funders exist to serve? Who should decide where the money goes? Do historic processes serve current needs and goals?

This is my third, and final, post reporting on the 2013 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Rather than writing up a daily roundup of the sessions I attended at GIA I decided to reflect upon them thematically. The overarching theme of … Continue reading →

Artists and Cultural Institutions Take Stage in Disaster Planning and Response

Regine A. Webster, Vice President, Center for Disaster Philanthropy, reports on her session at the Philadelphia conference:

I’ve just returned from a two-day trip to Philadelphia where I attended the Grantmakers in the Arts conference and served on a panel entitled “What Will Your Sandy be? Using Disaster-Related Philanthropy to Strengthen Communities.”

GIA Day 3

Good morning “And the beat goes on……………………” Breakout Sessions: I. Who Are Our Constituents? This session was based on the proposition that clarifying one’s constituency can change the approach to grant making. I think the reality is not so much … Continue reading →