With arts donors increasingly drawn to programs that advance social goals, we dig into a new initiative exploring how visual art, film, and dance can address mental health issues facing New Yorkers.
Read MoreThe Barr Foundation, a stalwart Boston funder, is helping arts groups to take more risks and engage in stronger civic leadership. What’s its plan for making the arts more “relevant?”
Read MoreIn 2011, Shelley Frost Rubin began laying the groundwork for one of art philanthropy's hottest funding areas with the formation of A Blade of Grass, which recently announced its 2018 fellows for Socially Engaged Art.
Read MoreMega-gifts to top L.A. institutions make headlines, but behind the scenes, smaller funders like the Michael Kelly Foundation for the Arts are backing work that questions "institutions and social structures."
Read MoreWith seed money from Agnes Gund’s Art for Change fund, a new fellowship positions the written word as an important way to help tackle issues related to mass incarceration.
Read MoreThe fast-growing creative placemaking field gets another boost from Kresge, which announced a new series of white papers to help practitioners integrate the arts and culture into community development.
Read MoreA study of arts funding across the past 25 years reveals a mixed bag. While foundation support for the arts has declined, individual patrons have significantly stepped up giving. What does the future hold?
Read MoreHow can "activist art" compel viewers to actually, well, act? We dig into the place-based strategy employed by San Francisco-based curator and gallerist Cheryl Haines.
Read MoreThe Vilcek Prizes stand out by rewarding individuals for contributions in arts and sciences, but there’s an underlying celebration of cultural exchange and immigration. This year’s recipients drive that message home.
Read MoreBloomberg Philanthropies has been a key catalyst of the public art boom with its Public Art Challenge. We look back on the program's successes and where public art may be heading.
Read MoreThe Walton Family Foundation has been engaged in a concerted push to create a strong arts ecosystem in Northwest Arkansas. Its latest move involves a partnership with Artspace.
Read MoreWinners of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation's Open Spaces grants think public art can engage communities around issues like immigration, women's rights, and gentrification.
Read MoreWith donor support for "activist art" showing no signs of abating, we explore how one funder is engaging this area with its latest round of funding for social justice and the arts.
Read MoreA gift for a new arts district in Fayetteville by the Windgate Charitable Foundation—a funder primarily comprised of donations of Walmart stock—aligns with Alice Walton's vision of creating a regional arts hub.
Read MoreWith funders becoming increasingly concerned with the unraveling of our social fabric, we dig into a provocative gift exploring art's ability to foster empathy and "affect positive social change."
Read MoreAs funders accelerate efforts to boost racial equity across the arts sector, we chat with a former grantmaker who's now focused on driving faster change in this space.
Read MoreOver half of ArtPlace America's 2017 National Creative Placemaking Fund projects hail from rural communities. We dig into the drivers behind this development and its implications.
Read MoreThe Kenneth Rainin Foundation is doubling down on a costly bid to protect beleaguered Bay Area arts and cultural organizations from displacement. Is this a model for other cities and funders?
Read MoreFive months after its launch, the fund, seeded with money from Gund's sale of Roy Lichtenstein's "Masterpiece," announced its first round of grants, with a surprising focus on literary organizations.
Read MoreA new study looking at trends in corporate philanthropy suggests that the real-world positive impacts of investing in the arts is finally catching on across Fortune 500 companies.
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