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Catalytic Funding and Cultural Strategy: Reimagining the Role of Arts Philanthropy - LIVE 10.06.2025

Catalytic Funding and Cultural Strategy: Reimagining the Role of Arts Philanthropy - LIVE 10.06.2025 Houston Endowment’s Bao-Long Chu will discuss how arts funders can serve as strategic allies within a fragmented and under-resourced cultural sector—moving beyond transactional grantmaking toward approaches that build trust, redistribute power and foster lasting collaboration. Participants will consider how data, including insights from SMU DataArts, can be used to shift from a scarcity mindset to one that strengthens advocacy, informs equitable investment and supports more intentional decision-making. Chu will share examples from Houston Endowment initiatives such as the BIPOC Arts Network and Fund (BANF), the seven Houston Cultural Districts, the planning process for the region’s first Latino Arts and Culture Center, and a public art feasibility study. These cases illustrate the vital role of funders as intermediaries accountable to social movements while contributing to an emerging arts policy framework for Texas’s Gulf Coast region—aimed at creating a more coordinated, inclusive and sustainable cultural ecosystem. Following the presentation, a panel discussion will feature Margaret Black, LH Capital Inc./Lyda Hill Philanthropies, and Amanda Fransham, Senior Program Officer at the Meadows Foundation. Panelists will reflect on how the sector can apply the lecture’s insights within their own work, exploring practical strategies, challenges and opportunities for embedding these learnings into real-world contexts. Copyright for Meadows Division of Music Concert Recordings is assigned to Southern Methodist University. Copyrighted recordings are made available for personal use only and may not be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without written permission from the university.