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Helping Artists Thrive

Uncategorized Posted: January 7, 2020 9:43 pm

“In the Arts, we’ve created new avenues for securing long-term, affordable spaces for arts and cultural organizations. We’re also collaborating with grantees to find alternative organizational models for supporting and sustaining artists’ creative practices.” (2nd video) – Kenneth Rainin Foundation (Oakland, CA)

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Uncategorized Published: 12.04.19, sj1

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A Kentucky Opioid Recovery Program Uses Traditional Stringed Instruments To Keep People Engaged (And Employed)

MUSIC Posted: January 5, 2020 9:00 am

While some in recovery opt for yoga or prayer groups, the group that chooses to connect with Kentucky’s musical heritage is doing well. “The art of crafting an instrument by hand requires keen focus, attention to detail and commitment to a goal — qualities that can help during recovery, in concert with therapy, peer-support groups and other rehabilitation work, experts say.”  – The New York Times

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MUSIC Published: 01.03.20, sj1

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Allyship in Arts Grantmaking

Uncategorized Posted: December 31, 2019 9:55 pm

“Inequality in the arts is holistic. It exists at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Grantmakers who are committed to seeing the arts thrive as an inclusive multiracial- and gender-expansive enterprise must pursue allyship at each of these levels. An ally is someone who takes on a struggle for equity that is not their own or that of their community. Allies use their privilege and their power to center the people most impacted by inequity. Allyship is a lifelong process, one that involves both personal reflection and systemic action. In the context of the arts, allyship encompasses a spectrum of strategies.” – Grantmakers in the Arts Reader

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Uncategorized Published: Fall 2019, sj1

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Popular Songs , Social Justice, and the Will to Change with Brad Schreiber

MUSIC Posted: December 24, 2019 2:56 pm

Author Brad Schreiber joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his new book Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change. For two hours, Schreiber and Patrick discuss the impact of protest music (or more aptly, socially conscious music) on the culture and on their lives (while playing many of the songs discussed). Some of the topics discussed are the qualities that make up a socially conscious song, if American and British popular music working bottom-up made socially conscious music more plentiful, the Vietnam era, the misuse of Bruce Springsteen songs,  what “This Land Is Your Land” really means, The Man in Black, The Dixie Chicks versus “W,” the impact of “the end of the Sixties,” Marvin Gaye in 1970, whether the music of the 1980s is underrated as socially conscious music, and much more. – Midnight Writers News

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MUSIC Published: 12.24.19, sj1

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Class, control, and classical music

MUSIC Posted: December 16, 2019 10:30 pm

“Something that has increasingly bothered me over 20 years as a practitioner and educator, is that “music education” as we conceive it (right down to state/county/national syllabi/standards) is not really for everyone, even if it’s supposed to be. … [Anna] Bull’s Class, Control, and Classical Music is a book for our time, especially for those of us who went through classical music training (even just school-age instrumental lessons or choir/chorus rehearsals), loved or loathed it, and would like to point a critical lens to that part of our lives.” – James Humberstone

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MUSIC Published: 12.18.19, sj1

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At The Jacob’s Pillow Gala This Summer, One Patron Was Subjected To Humiliating Racist Treatment By Some Other Patrons. Here’s How The Director Handled It.

AUDIENCE, DANCE Posted: December 12, 2019 8:04 am

“After hearing about this, I couldn’t stay silent. I wrote an op-ed for our regional paper, The Berkshire Eagle, describing how Jacob’s Pillow, like many cultural institutions, is working to create a climate of inclusiveness. ‘We can diversify the artists … we celebrate onstage, the dancers we teach in our school, and the representation of people of color on our board and staff,’ I wrote. ‘What can we do to evolve our audiences so that our institution is truly inclusive?” I invited readers to share their thoughts.” Pamela Tatge writes about what has happened as a result. – Dance Magazine

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AUDIENCE, DANCE Published: 12.10.19, sj1

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How Philanthropy Can Get Smarter About Risk Management

Uncategorized Posted: December 10, 2019 6:41 pm

“Donors are often confused about the appropriate levels of social risk and reward they should target in their philanthropy. They tell us they should bring the same risk aversion to philanthropic decision making that they display in their personal investment decision making. This is wrong. … Foundation officers and endowment managers too often prefer exceedingly safe grants and investments because of misapplied principles, biases, and concerns about their reputations.” – Stanford Social Innovation Review

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Uncategorized Published: sj1, Winter 2020

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What does it mean for a musician to be socially engaged? How undergraduate music students perceive their possible social roles as musicians

Uncategorized Posted: December 3, 2019 10:07 pm

“As tertiary music institutions explore ways to increase the social orientation of their curricula, it is important that the student voice be present in research and scholarship. How do students themselves conceive of the notion of a ‘socially engaged’ musician? What social roles do they see for themselves as musicians?” – Music Education Research

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Uncategorized Published: 06.06.19, sj1

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Local Government Artist-in-Residence Programs Must Include Opportunities for Public Sector Innovation

Uncategorized Posted: December 3, 2019 9:53 pm

“Current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists’ narrowly defined art projects. Often what is missing from these programs is the opportunity for artists to work directly with public sector workers on addressing public sector problems.” – Stanford Social Innovation Review

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Uncategorized Published: sj1, Winter 2020

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Making Music: A community-school music partnership

Uncategorized Posted: November 26, 2019 10:48 pm

“The purpose of this study was to explore a fledgling community-school music partnership, Making Music, and to examine the benefits and challenges of this partnership. The partnership was initially conceived to fill gaps in the music curriculum in an urban school district where few middle schools housed music programs and music at the elementary and high school levels were inconsistent. What made this partnership unusual was that any school participating in the program received free music instruction on a weekly basis, but only for three years.” – Arts Education Policy Review

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Uncategorized Published: 03.20.19, sj1

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Equality and quality: The influence of private funds in public arts education in Boston and Baltimore

Uncategorized Posted: November 26, 2019 10:45 pm

“A priority for educational philanthropists is to help schools compensate for social inequalities, which was true of the funders who supported arts education in Baltimore and Boston. But increased access to arts instruction does not guarantee that every student in a school system receives a high-quality, sustained arts education.” – Arts Education Policy Review

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Uncategorized Published: 01.14.19, sj1

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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Leads New MFA Program For Artist-Activists

ISSUES Posted: November 22, 2019 6:34 am

Patrisse Cullors, a performance artist who recently completed a master’s degree at USC with a concentration on performance and activism, designed the new two-year online program, called Social and Environmental Arts Practice, with and for Prescott College in Arizona. – Los Angeles Times

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ISSUES Published: 11.21.19, sj1

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Hewlett Foundation Announces Changes in Arts Grantmaking Program

Uncategorized Posted: November 19, 2019 7:54 pm

“While the foundation will continue to support nonprofit arts organizations that are creating, producing, and presenting performances across the region and will continue to fund organizations working to ensure that Bay Area youth have access to high-quality arts education, it will also provide, through new focus areas, support for artists and artists’ networks and will work to help arts leaders become more effective advocates for their communities.” – Philanthropy News Digest

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Uncategorized Published: 11.11.19, sj1

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Detroit Symphony To Give Free Instrument And Lessons To Any Detroit Child Who Wants Them

MUSIC Posted: November 15, 2019 6:05 am

“Detroit Harmony, as the project is called, represents a bid to dramatically expand music education throughout the city, one that hopefully will generate demand for an entirely new workforce of music teachers and craftsmen to repair and refurbish used instruments. … [The program] will be open to any K-12 student in public, private and charter schools throughout the city.” – The Detroit News

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MUSIC Published: 11.14.19, sj1

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Open Society Foundations Launches Program To Advance Diverse Artistic Practices

Uncategorized Posted: November 12, 2019 7:12 pm

“The Open Society Foundations announced recently the launch of its Culture and Art program, which ‘seeks to advance diverse artistic practices and strengthen locally-led cultural spaces around the world through grantmaking, capacity building, and convening power.'” – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: 10.25.19, sj1

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Arts in Society: A Case Study in Collaborative Cross-Sector Grantmaking

Uncategorized Posted: November 12, 2019 5:30 pm

“As grantmakers, we often ask our applicants to amplify their impact through collaboration, but what happens when we turn this mandate on ourselves and join forces with other funders to magnify our giving? This was exactly the question that the Bonfils-Stanton and Hemera Foundations set out to test when they joined forces in 2016 to pilot the Arts in Society grant program. … The program has demonstrated that collaborative grantmaking, like collaborative programming, can lead to increased efficiency and impact. [Here are] some of the benefits that have come from this collaboration.” – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: Fall 2019, sj1

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Are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements Effective Tools for Foundations?

Uncategorized Posted: November 5, 2019 9:32 pm

Morgan Williams: “The purpose of my research was to shed light on some of the complexities, nuances, and challenges of putting DEI theory into practice within foundation funding for arts and culture. I considered both the foundation perspective (as represented in DEI statements) and the grantee perspective. The following discussion represents the highlights of my research.” – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: sj1, Summer 2019

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The Role of Foundations in Achieving Creative Justice

Uncategorized Posted: November 5, 2019 9:30 pm

Antonio C. Cuyler: “In this article, I explore three research questions: What role should foundations play in achieving creative justice? What behaviors do foundations practice that might undermine their efforts toward achieving creative justice? And what approaches to funding creative justice should foundations consider? … But what exactly is creative justice, and how does it work?” – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: sj1, Winter 2019

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Building Racial Equity in Public Art Funding: A Seattle Story

Uncategorized Posted: November 5, 2019 9:27 pm

“The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) is a city department working within a large bureaucracy, but we can use that to our advantage, and we have. We are small and nimble, and we are finding that we can effect change through small efforts that yield positive results without entering the political playing field. We are working toward dismantling institutional racism from inside, one decision at a time, but also through new programs and initiatives.” – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: sj1, Winter 2019

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2019 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference: Four things funders do wrong

Uncategorized Posted: October 29, 2019 10:01 pm

“It takes some courage to come to a conference of funders and tell them what they do wrong. In no uncertain terms. Especially if you are an organization that could use their money. But there was a lot of that at the Tuesday morning panel titled: Expressions for Justice: Grantmaking in the arts for systems change. The exchange was open, and maybe the most direct of the entire GIA conference.” (For the main web page of the 2019 GIA conference, click here. For the full GIA 2019 conference blog, click here.) – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: 10.16.19, sj1

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2019 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference: When the ADA is the bare minimum, disability art demands (and deserves) the right to equitable access

Uncategorized Posted: October 29, 2019 9:56 pm

“The ADA is often mentioned as some kind of total solution to a still inaccessible world. But as was pointed out at the beginning of Monday’s panel, Variations on a Theme: Funding Disability Aesthetics, the ADA is the bare minimum. It is often a box half-heartedly checked … The ADA exists and the world is still inaccessible, and that includes the art world — a tangible and theoretical space that touts itself as radical. But there is nothing radical about inaccessibility.” (For the main web page of the 2019 GIA conference, click here. For the full GIA 2019 conference blog, click here.) – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: 10.15.19, sj1

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2019 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference: GIA’s great curiosity — the Black Art Futures Fund

Uncategorized Posted: October 29, 2019 9:26 pm

“The Black Art Futures Fund was a topic of great curiosity at the 2019 GIA conference, if only because it seemed to the GIA crowd that founder DéLana R.A. Dameron is on to something new with her start-up funding effort. And so the session titled Our Beloved Community: Collaborative grantmaking, which formally introduced the project to attendees drew an eager audience, even though it started at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. The room was packed.” (For the main web page of the 2019 GIA conference, click here. For the full GIA 2019 conference blog, click here.) – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: 10.16.19, sj1

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2019 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference: Too Many Elephants in the Room to Count — When a Conversation on Affordable Housing for Artists Refuses to Address Reality

Uncategorized Posted: October 29, 2019 9:17 pm

Bree Davies: “When I saw the conference workshop Innovations in Artist Housing: Inspiration from South America to address the ‘Soho Effect’, I was stoked. … [But] the panel on artist housing did not include a single artist, let alone an artist impacted by — or blamed for — the ‘SoHo Effect.’ Instead, the panel physically resembled many urban planning panels I’ve had to painfully sit through — upper middle class white people who want to talk about housing, mostly in terms of real estate values and sexy urban design. They did not want to talk about the realities just outside the windows of the room I began to feel trapped in.” (For the main web page of the 2019 GIA conference, click here. For the full GIA 2019 conference blog, click here.) – Grantmakers in the Arts

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Uncategorized Published: 10.17.19, sj1

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It’s time to completely reimagine the role of foundation program officers

Uncategorized Posted: October 22, 2019 8:33 pm

“I think in many ways we as a sector have pigeonholed foundation program officers. We have internalized this idea that their role is one of micromanager and compliance officer, whose jobs are mainly to ensure nonprofits align and comply, even with ineffective or harmful practices and strategies set by foundations. This old-school default role prevents POs from being authentic allies and partners with pivotal responsibilities that could greatly enhance our work. It’s time for our sector to completely reimagine the role of foundation program officers. Here’s what this may look like, in no particular order, based on experience I’ve had with the program officers who have been the most helpful.” – Nonprofit AF

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Uncategorized Published: 10.06.19, sj1

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Creative City Learning: Inspiring Stories About the Transformative Power of Public Art

Uncategorized Posted: October 22, 2019 8:31 pm

“The inaugural three years (2015-2018) of the Creative City pilot program supported artists of all disciplines to reimagine places for art in Boston, engage public imagination, and inspire community members to share in civic experiences. With acknowledgement of the Barr Foundation’s funding and thought partnership, NEFA is excited to share the learnings through the Creative City Report and video series featuring the inspiring stories of the pilot program grantee work and the transformative power art can play in civic life.” – New England Foundation for the Arts

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