{"id":1357,"date":"2009-10-22T08:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/10\/blogging_the_gia\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T08:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:43:55","slug":"blogging_the_gia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/blogging_the_gia.php","title":{"rendered":"Blogging the GIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giarts.org\/\">Grantmakers in the Arts<\/a> conference has long been a closed affair &#8212; gathering foundations and funders for several days of discussion, workshops, and panels to inform their work. The reasons for the closed circle are obvious: Funders can speak more freely about their challenges and opportunities if they&#8217;re aren&#8217;t being swarmed by potential grantees. Plus, as a community of practice, they can benefit from reasonably pure peer-to-peer connections.<\/p>\n<p>Nonmembers can come if they&#8217;re invited (I&#8217;ve been to two of them, which makes me cool). But otherwise it&#8217;s a bit like Fight Club and its first rule. Which is why it&#8217;s rather nice to have <a href=\"http:\/\/gia2009.wordpress.com\/\">a blogger on-site this year,<\/a> in the form and phrases of Ian David Moss of the <a href=\"http:\/\/createquity.com\/\">Createquity<\/a> blog. Ian engaged the tension of blogging from a closed conference in one of his posts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The conference is traditionally closed to all but staff of grantmaking organizations and invited speakers. In addition, there is a strict policy against solicitation of any kind&#8230; The result is that the conference creates, as GIA board member Janet Rodriguez characterized it, a &#8221;safe space&#8221; for the sharing of ideas among colleagues. However, at the only major national convening for arts funders every year, this strategy can also remove the possibility of healthy confrontation in a field in which getting honest feedback can be a challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of great summaries and perspectives. Although I&#8217;m rather eagerly awaiting the reports from the morning workshop entitled &#8221;The Future and Our Role in Shaping It&#8221; where Ian was not invited. If ever there was a topic for funders to engage with transparency, openess, and full-on critical engagement, that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Grantmakers in the Arts conference has long been a closed affair &#8212; gathering foundations and funders for several days of discussion, workshops, and panels to inform their work. The reasons for the closed circle are obvious: Funders can speak more freely about their challenges and opportunities if they&#8217;re aren&#8217;t being swarmed by potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}