GIA Podcast

About GIA Podcast

Podcast by Grantmakers in the Arts

Publisher

Grantmakers in the Arts

Category

government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jan 2016

Latest episode

12 May 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Justice and Healing Create Responsive Program Design For All with Dance/USA

   Haowen Wang of Dance/USA interviews artists Laurel Lawson and Peter Rockford Espiritu (Tau), and curator Michèle Steinwald about creating responsive program design through eight years of the DFA program.

2. 

   9 Mar 2026

   Stepping Aside Without Stepping Away: Lessons from an Eight-Year Experiment Designing with Artists

   Across the nonprofit arts sector, national regranting programs are ending and institutional infrastructures are shrinking as philanthropy resets how it supports the field. In this moment of contraction and uncertainty, institutions can no longer afford to remain unprepared to work with artists on structural design. The Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists program (DFA) became one attempt to learn how. In this episode, Haowen Wang of Dance/USA joins artists Laurel Lawson and Peter Rockford Espiritu (Tau), and curator Michèle Steinwald to reflect on eight years of responsive design through DFA. Together, they examine moments of rupture, redesign, and learning, and share lessons about what it takes for institutions to reposition themselves so artists can lead. This episode was recorded on March 9, 2026.

3. 

   4 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Disability Culture Lab on AI, Policy, and Creative Power

   AI is often framed as either a miracle tool or a looming threat, but what does it actually mean for disabled artists navigating grants, fellowships, and creative partnerships? In this episode, Meier Galblum Haigh [Hague] and Kenrya Rankin from Disability Culture Lab take over the GIA podcast to unpack the realities of AI, from access tools to authorship, labor, and institutional policy. Listen for an examination on how justice-minded organizations can channel conversations about AI that center on disabled artists’ autonomy, creativity, and care.

Inside a recent episode

How Justice and Healing Create Responsive Program Design For All with Dance/USA

Published 12 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] As you will hear in this podcast, DFA went through its share of mistakes and challenges. And we want to use this podcast as a case study for our collective learning. So we ask, what conditions must be present for artists to exercise agency and leadership without absorbing institutional labor? What institutional behaviors must shift for artists center design to be real? And also, what forms of continuity, relationship, and collective capacity are already functioning as infrastructure within artists communities? And how do we learn from them as institutions? So with these guiding questions, I want to shift the attention to my colleagues. […]

Who has been a guest on GIA Podcast

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• Dr Maria Rosario Jackson
• Will Boyd
• Kelle Jolly
• Eddie Torres
• Eleanor Savage

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5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

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Social presence

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Engagement

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