The Advisory Brief for Local and Public Health Agencies and Organizations calls for local public health agencies and organizations to mobilize existing local arts and cultural assets to develop creative responses to this crisis. The advisory brief offers action steps, real-time examples and resources related to communication, connection, resilience, and recovery.
Read MoreCalifornians for the Arts has joined other cultural organizations and arts and culture workers across the country to propose a set of relief and recovery policy actions legislators can take today to put creative workers to work. They will activate the creative economy for the common good, energize our fellow citizens, re-imagine how our communities can thrive, spark economic growth, and improve the lives of us all.
Read MoreThis post contains updates about current federal COVID-19 funding and new federal legislation being considered by Congress now.
Read MoreThe German government has doubled the amount of emergency pandemic aid for the arts, adding an extra €1bn to help cultural organisations and workers survive the second coronavirus lockdown, which was imposed last year in stages starting in the autumn.
Read MoreIn a recent study conducted by Californians For The Arts (CFTA), of the 600 plus California creative businesses, 79% of respondents have eliminated and/or reduced programs, and 16% are not confident they will be able to survive if programs cannot resume before April 1. It is clear that unless we develop guidelines for the arts to reopen safely, it will be almost impossible for this sector to survive the crisis.
Read MoreThe initiative supports the creation and premiere of 50 new works of the highest artistic quality and enduring value — works the foundation hopes will go on to inspire, engage and challenge audiences across the country and around the world in years to come. The $8 million initiative awards ten $150,000 commissions each year for exceptional new works by extraordinary artists working in partnership with San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit organizations.
Read MoreThe narrative Baker wants to put forth is that artists are “second responders.”
“We’re not running into a burning building pulling someone out, but we’re right there right as they come out and rebuilding a life and rebuilding a community,” she says. “That’s what the arts do.”
Read More“It’s interesting that people who have had no connection to art are suddenly asking questions,” he says. “And it’s good for artists to leave the art bubble and go into a public space to confront people with things that are funny or different from what they are used to. There will be tens of thousands of visitors to this centre.”
Read MoreRecognizing the essential roles of “artists as second responders,” who help us recover, reflect and rebuild following times of crisis, and the equally vital role that the broader arts community plays in the local and regional creative economy, the San Benito County Arts Council’s COVID Arts Relief Grant Program was designed to uplift the local arts sector through direct funding. Grant funds will be applied to rent, salaries, internet services and other overhead costs.
Read MoreIn the Bavarian town of Straubing, 84 works by 42 local artists are on show in a vaccination facility established in a trade exhibition centre. Patients awaiting their turn to be inoculated against the coronavirus can pass the time studying installations and sculptures in the reception room.
Read MoreThe application and further details for the 2021 Individual Artist Fellowships opportunity can be found at https://arts.ca.gov/grant_program/individual-artists-fellowship. Applications are due April 1, 2021.
Read MoreThe National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) is launching a new program that will provide health care workers the type of release and self-care they need to help them fight COVID-19 burnout and manage their stress during this critical time. […]
Programs like NOAH’s are much needed as hospitals and their art programs suffer financial losses during the pandemic. All non-emergency surgeries were canceled and many people avoided hospitalization, at least in the early months of COVID.
Read MoreIn collaboration with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) partners, the $2,500 artist grants and $5,000 organization grants aim to support those facing critical financial emergencies due to the impact of COVID-19 in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Read MoreWe know you have many questions about the Save Our Stages Act and how it will be administered. […] Questions from NIVA members should be directed to implementation@nivassoc.org, but please read the summary of the act first, as it may answer many of your questions.
Read MoreThe third cycle of COVID-19 Relief Grants will provide one-time $1,000 grants to artists working in craft disciplines who continue to face dire food, housing, and medical insecurities caused by the pandemic. Priority will be given to eligible artists who have traditionally been underserved by the grantmaking community, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and materials-based folk and traditional artists.
Read MoreTo promote access to capital, initially only community financial institutions will be able to make First Draw PPP Loans on Monday, January 11, and Second Draw PPP Loans on Wednesday, January 13. The PPP will open to all participating lenders shortly thereafter.
Read MoreThis is a growing grants database with fundraising opportunities focusing on awards averaging $1,000+, prioritize BIPOC and LGBTQIA+, and unrestricted funding.
But if Hollywood is going to continue reaping the creative benefits of the theater — the actors’ training, the ambitious storytelling, the characters fleshed out over countless rewrites — it bears an obligation, artistic and moral, to assist the theater in its time of need.
Read MoreThe budget for 2021 allocates funding to preserve Berlin museum buildings, renovate the Bayreuth Festival theatre, boost provenance research and grant free admission to the Jewish Museum Berlin
Read MoreAt first, the calls for a New Deal for the arts, or a new Federal Theatre Project, were sparse. But since the summer, an array of theater executives — including Ybarra, Eustis, Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director Nataki Garrett and Woolly Mammoth Theatre artistic director Maria Manuela Goyanes in Washington — have formed a nationwide coalition. Their goal? Much like the first iteration of the Federal Theatre Project, it’s to get Congress, the White House and the country to see performing artists as workers.
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