Penn Hill Group Executive Vice President Alex Nock recently spoke at the Grantmakers in the Arts 2012 conference in Miami Beach, FL. Nock gave a report on the efforts of GIA’s Arts Education Funders Coalition to enhance the status of the arts within federal education policy, and a forecast of education policy action in 2013. Nock also presented at a session on Arts & Democracy: The Effects of the 2012 Election on the Arts.