GIA’s Research Initiative on Support for Individual Artists

Tuesday, October 14, 9:50am – 10:50am

Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts.

Presented by Cynthia Gehrig, President, Jerome Foundation; and Tommer Peterson, Deputy Director, Grantmakers in the Arts.

For several years, GIA members who support individual artists have noted the lack of sector-wide data on artist support, the lack of a common taxonomy to explain the different forms of artist support, and the lack of benchmark data to track artist support over time. GIA began work to gather this data in 2012, released a Proposed National Standard Taxonomy for Data on Support for Individual Artists in the summer of 2014, and is now beta testing a database to gather this information with the participation of our members. Research, by its very nature, is a form of inquiry, and the journey we have made over the last year and a half is not the same one that we imagined when we started. We will share updates on the launch of this research initiative and how it has developed over time.