Grantmakers in the Arts's website will be dark on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
as part of a nationwide movement to draw attention to two pieces of pending legislation,
the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA),
both of which we believe threaten free speech and inhibit artistic creation and innovation.

You can learn more about this from our colleagues:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media
Benton Foundation
The MIT Media Lab
Joi Ito
Stop the Wall