Grantmakers in the Arts is eager to welcome you – finally - to San Juan! Following a pivot late in 2021, we postponed the in-person experiences to 2023, and here we are! While much has occurred in the interim, the communities and organizing efforts led by artists, culture bearers, and grantmakers, remain. As we look toward the future – a future that must be more equitable and just – we must reflect on how the past informed our present.

Puerto Rico, La Isla del Encanto, and its people shape and are shaped by place and environment, history and geopolitics, and a complex colonial history that defines its status as a US territory, the ancestors of our legacies – Taíno, African, and European – and diverse social and cultural narratives of an island and a diaspora. We look to Puerto Rico for energy and inspiration, creativity and struggle. While we do this, the creators who supply that source of relief at the end of a long day are succumbed to the inequities of the labor force, affordable space and access, asset ownership, and the nonprofit industrial complex. How are we, as stewards of wealth and holders of power, using our imaginations to build a present and future that will redress past and present struggle? Artists and activists are among the many calling for change, and they continue to lead the way for imagining different relationships of belonging in new futures.

Join us in-person for four days of immersion in the vast and layered cultural ecosystem of Puerto Rico with keynotes, breakout sessions, off-sites, cultural tours, and more!

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