U.S. National Deadline: September 15, 2021 – Now accepting entries for the 9th Joshua Tree National Park Art Exposition’s Juried Exhibition. We are looking for artwork inspired by the natural aspects of Joshua Tree…
Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on August 16, 2021
“We have to find business structures that meaningfully place people first and upend the practice of concentrating decision-making power and money in the hands of administrative leadership while undercompensating and disenfranchising the majority of workers,” wrote Arianna Gass and Daniel Park on a worker cooperative.
Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on August 16, 2021
“Trust-based philanthropy encourages funders to adopt a set of values that include leading with trust, centering relationships, collaborating with humility and curiosity, redistributing power, and working for systemic equity,” wrote Melinda Tuan, managing director of Fund for Shared Insight, in a recent article published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
Tuan added,
It’s been a long time since I first started thinking about the grantmaking world’s dance of deceit, and I do believe things have improved since then. But I also believe that funders can and should change even more – diving more deeply and committedly into the kind of listening and feedback practices that advance equity and bring us closer to living out the meaningful and essential values at the heart of trust-based philanthropy.
The National Gallery of Canada has been on a positive trajectory over the last while. With a restructuring and rebranding of the gallery to integrate and highlight the works and culture of Indigenous artists, as well as receiving $900,000CAD in funding for future initiatives, it has been a bright year for the institution. And now the NGC is the recipient of a major donation in the form of the massive Meakins-McClaran collection, from a Montréal married couple.
Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran, physicians in Montréal, had amassed quite the collection over the years. In fact, it was one of the largest private collections in all of Canada. The two had a wealth of artworks from Dutch and Flemish artists across the 16th and 17th centuries, among others, and 250 of the works from this near-forty-year collection have been given to the NGC.
An exhibition entitled The Collectors’ Cosmos, curated by member Erika Dolphin, opened on July 16th and will run until November 14th to display a large portion of the Meakins-McClaran collection. Dolphin has grouped the selections of prints, drawings, and etchings thematically rather than chronologically across this two-century span.
“The exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada will reveal both the strength and breadth of the collection today,” the gallery states of The Collectors’ Cosmos “as well as the collectors’ love of the etched and engraved line and plate tone.” As for Meakins and McClaran, they seem overjoyed to have their collection be shared with Canadian viewers, McClaran stating to the Ottawa Citizen:
“It’s wonderful to give a big gift and to see it exhibited, but also to do it in your own lifetime, and to contribute. We felt like curators ourselves.”
The Meakins-McClaran collection gives a new focussed depth to the works already acquired by the National Gallery of Canada. With it only just over half-way through, this has already been a milestone year for this institution of art in Canada. And with new initiatives just underway—including commissions from Indigenous artists Chief 7idansuu James Hart and Lisa Hageman Yahjujanaas—there is surely even more to come.
U.S. National Deadline: September 10, 2021 – The Third Street Gallery invites artwork for Sculpted Spaces, Wild Lives, a complementary pair of exhibitions that address intentionally-shaped spaces and the wild…
U.S. National Deadline: December 17, 2021 – Kaiser Gallery’s annual exhibition, Coveted, seeks to represent the perspectives of those that are not easily accessible in mainstream culture, while representations of…
Submitted by admin on August 9, 2021
On June 21, 2021, AmeriCorps –the federal agency which provides support through funding and people power to more than 2,000 organizations across America and connects over 70,000 Americans each year to opportunities to engage in volunteer service to meet community needs – announced how it will use its $1 billion allocation in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to address ongoing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ARP funds were provided by Congress as one of several COVID-19 relief packages enacted over the past 18 months.
The AmeriCorps ARP funds will accomplish three critical goals: increasing service member slots; making national service more accessible by offering an increase in living allowances; and providing financial help to existing national service programs that were most severely impacted by the pandemic. The use of these funds will meet two critical goals, meaningfully responding to the BIPOC wealth gap and ensuring that service is more accessible to low-income individuals.
In particular, $644.9 million will be allocated to AmeriCorps State and National to increase the living allowance of Corps members, provide financial assistance to current grantees, and introduce a place-based planning grant opportunity to community-based organizations that are strategically aligned to local government priorities. AmeriCorps VISTA will receive $80 million in funding to increase the number of VISTA members serving, expand the summer associate program and increase the living allowance of VISTA members. AmeriCorps Seniors will receive $30 million in funding to focus on supporting COVID-19 vaccination efforts and provide existing grantees with the opportunity to obtain additional resources to supplement and expand their current services. In addition, $148 million will go towards Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards to help service members who complete their term of service to pay for postsecondary education or repay student loans.
GIA believes national service can be a key means of addressing the BIPOC wealth gap, through increasing college access by providing financial support for postsecondary education, and building the work skills of service members. In fact, positive outcomes associated with serving are even stronger among Black corps members, and corps members from marginalized groups. Furthermore, the increase in living stipend for Corps members will make national service more accessible to low-income individuals and those from underrepresented communities, which can help to provide onramps into the arts and cultural industries.
National service can also provide communities and organizations, including arts and cultural organizations, a powerful force to tackle their biggest challenges at this time of great need amidst recovery from the pandemic. GIA encourages organizations to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the historic ARP investment in AmeriCorps. More information can be found at https://americorps.gov/partner or through contacting AmeriCorps region offices.
Submitted by admin on August 11, 2021
The Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA), a bill to authorize and appropriate a $300 million modern WPA/CETA program for creative workers, was recently submitted to the clerk in the House.
With over 140 endorsements, including organizations and arts leaders, at GIA we are looking forward to follow this bill to approval.
International Deadline: August 29, 2021 – INHABIT artist-in-residence program of the Max Planck Institute invites artists from various disciplines to collaborate with our team of scientists and researchers. Funded…
U.S. National Deadline: September 24, 2021 – The Arlington Center for the Arts seeks submissions for its upcoming exhibition REAL! This exhibition focuses on the beauty and appeal of artistic realism…