PROJECT NUMBER ONE
Doing my part to continue advocating, educating and exchanging information for artists. Please find below a shared list of resources for artists, art professionals, philanthropists, and art lovers.
10.15.2020
Cuyahoga County announced $4 million in funding will be made available through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”).
Learn more about requesting funding or to sign up to receive updates here.
07.29.2020
Want to be an arts hero?
BE AN ARTS HERO is an inter-sectional grass roots campaign comprised of Arts & Culture workers, Unions, and institutions in the United States pushing the Senate to allocate proportionate relief to the Arts & Culture sector of the American economy. ArtsHero is 100% volunteer run.
07.05.2020
Greater Cleveland’s storied arts and culture sector needs support like never before
“As we work together to provide relief and support our communities, we must also work together to protect one of our greatest regional assets: our arts and culture sector.” - Jill Paulsen, Megan Van Voorhis and Fred Bidwell. Read more here.
06.28.2020
The Ins and Outs of City Budgets
Do you know if your city supports arts and culture? Use this illustrated guide to find out what you should know by CityLab’s visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger.
06.09.2020
HERE Are 25 organizations you can donate to that support emerging Black Artists, Thinkers, and Change-Makers.
SOURCE: ARTNET.COM
06.06.2020
Photo credit: artist unknown
05.19.2020
THE LIST
The Big Artist Opportunities List Assembled and maintained by Everest Pipkin. Questions / concerns / comments Please contact everest.pipkin @ gmail or @everestpipkin on twitter
05.06.2020
LISTEN IN
Conversations are shifting from searching for relief funds to learning to rebrand for new revenue generators to survive. One organization, Arts Cleveland, holds weekly check-ins with the arts communities and individual artists. Search the Arts Cleveland Calendar here.
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05.06.2020
NEW ADDITIONS
The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis totaling $10,000.00 USD. Next deadline May 19th. NOTE: $40 Application Fee
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Established as part of Lee Krasner’s legacy, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant was set up to support and strengthen the creative lives of artists.
DETAILS: Mid-career professional artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. Field: Painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmaking. Awards range from $5,000 to $30,000, depending. Ongoing deadline.
04.14.2020
CALL FOR ARTISTS
www.onelakewood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Wagar-Park-Street-Mural-Call-for-Artists.pdf
The City of Lakewood OH is excited to announce a Call for Artists for the Wagar Park Street Mural. This is the first step of a two-step process to select the best and most qualified public artist(s) for the project.
Deadline: May 11, 2020; 4:00 pm
04.07.2020
IN THE CLE?!
OPPORTUNITIES
https://www.land-studio.org/artists/calls-for-artists/van-aken-district-murals-call-for-artists
The Van Aken District is seeking portfolios from artists interested in having their work displayed as a large-scale printed mural in May 2020. Six total artworks will be displayed by up to six artists. Submission deadline Monday, April 13.
https://spacesgallery.submittable.com/submit
The Satellite Fund: Emergency Relief Grant
Applications will be accepted through April 24th, 2020 with release of funding soon thereafter.
2020 Urgent Art Fund
Applications for the Urgent Art Fund will be accepted on a rolling basis until all 5 project support grants in 2020 have been awarded. Ends December 21, 2020.
03.31.2020
UPDATES!
NATIONAL GRANTS
Actors Fund Entertainment Assistance Program
The Actors Fund provides services and financial support to entertainment professionals facing personal or work-related problems. It is also a conduit for emergency financial assistance in times of pressing need or in response to catastrophic events.
Anonymous Was A Woman Emergency Relief Grant
This special grant allows women-identifying artists to apply for up to $2,500 for financial hardships from loss of income or opportunity as a direct result of the crisis. The application opens April 6.
Artists in any discipline who have been impacted by COVID19-related cancellations and closures may apply for assistance from this relief fund.
Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund
This emergency fund can provide up to $200 for people of color that are either working artist or art administration and are affected by COVID-19.
The Author League Fund helps professional writers in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune by providing no-strings-attached “loans” to pay for pressing expenses.
The Blues Foundation HART Fund
The Blues Foundation Handy Artists Relief Trust Fund is available to Blues musicians and their families who are in financial need due to a broad range of health concerns.
The Carnegie Fund for Authors awards grants to published authors who are in need of emergency financial assistance as a result of illness or injury to self, spouse, or dependent child, or who has had some other misfortune that has placed the applicant in pressing and substantial pecuniary need.
ConvertKit has established a fund to help creators in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have already received more applications than they have funding, but encourage creators to still apply.
** Dramatists Guild Foundation **
DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Jazz Foundation Musicians Emergency Fund
Musicians who have made a living playing blues, jazz, and roots music can apply for emergency funding from the Jazz Foundation.
Kinkade Family Foundation Emergency Grant for Curators
This emergency grant provides funding for a curatorial project that sheds light on the world during this time of darkness. Priority will be given to curators who have a venue secured for their project and are greatly impacted by the challenges we are facing due to COVID-19.
The Musicians Foundation provides grants to U.S. musicians in any genre in a time of acute need due to personal, medical, dental, or family crisis, natural disaster, or other emergency situation.
The New York Foundation for the Arts has a running list of additional emergency grant opportunities for artists, categorized by disciplines.
PEN American Writers’ Emergency Fund
The PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund is a small grants program for professional—published or produced—writers in acute or unexpected financial crisis. Depending on the situation and level of need, grants are in the range of $2,000.
Format has put together a $25,000 relief fund designed to help photographers facing financial difficulties during the outbreak. The fund offers $500 per person.
Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund
This fund is for queer writers of color who are in need of financial assistance. The fund will make disbursements once per day.
This relief fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet because of COVID-19.
Art Interrupted Emergency Arts Fund
Twenty Summer has launched an emergency fund for artists and arts organizations suffering from unexpected and unmanageable financial loss as a result of the COVID-19. Artists can receive up to $500, while arts organizations can receive up to $1,000.
RESOURCES
Coronavirus Preparedness for Theatres
This webinar by the Theatre Communications Group provides a holistic take on preparedness for theatres, including, general preparedness strategies, how to forecast budget shifts should productions be cancelled, how to navigate insurance, and more.
Disaster Resilience for Northern California Grantmakers
The Northern California Grantmakers has a series of online discussions to work together to form a philanthropic response.
A list of resources specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community, including actors, designers, producers, technicians, stage managers, musicians, and more.
USEFUL INFO ?
This is an evolving map that shows where United States officials have passed, or where tenants are working to pass, emergency tenant protections during the COVID-19 crisis.
Guidelines for the Postponement or Cancellation of Work
WAGE provides some basic guidelines that can be used by artists and nonprofit institutions as we begin to navigate the future of work in the arts field during the pandemic.
How Self-Employed Artists and Small Businesses Can Apply for Financial Aid
Art Newspaper has gathered information about grants and loans in the US and Europe to help self-employed artists and small businesses in the arts community get through the COVID-19 crisis.
03.30.2020
EMERGENCY GRANTS
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants
NYFA and the Rauschenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.
https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Rauschenberg-Emergency-Grants
Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Emergency Grants
Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (painters, printmakers, and sculptors)
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/emergency-grant
CERF+ Artist Safety Net
Artists who have suffered from a recent, career threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire or natural disaster, can apply for funding. CERF+ also has a list of resources centered around the pandemic.
ARTISTS GRANTS, FUNDS, AND FREELANCE OPPORTUNITIES
Artwork Archive
Financial Relief Resources for Artists During COVID-19
Women’s Arts
Links for a number of emergency funds, broken up by discipline
https://www.womenarts.org/funding-resources/emergencyfunds/
Artists’ Charitable Fund (visual artists grants for medical expenses)
Assists American visual fine artists (painters and sculptors) living anywhere in the United States by paying a portion of their medical / dental / eye-care bills.
http://artistscharitablefund.org/index.html
Howlround Theatre Commons
Artists In a Time of Global Pandemic (streamed on March 16), For US-Based Freelance Artists and Cultural Workers in all Disciplines along with artist resources.
https://howlround.com/happenings/artists-time-global-pandemic-asl-captioned
ART LOVERS: Virtual Tours
Cleveland Museum of Art
Clevelanders know the museum is always free, but when you get can’t to the brick and mortar, home is where the art is.
https://www.clevelandart.org/home-where-art-stay-connected
Travel & leisure
Some of us are stuck at home. 12 Museums Offer Virtual Tours from Your Couch (Video)
https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
Google Arts & Culture
Love the Guggenheim? No problem… Go today!
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en
Louvre Museum Online Tours
Enough said.
UPDATED!
And then, just like that, friends helped grow the list of virtual tours.
National Gallery of Denmark
Harvard Art Museums
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections
Swedish National Museum
https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/samlingarna
Slovak National Gallery
https://www.sng.sk/en/collections
Finnish National Gallery
https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/search
Mauritshuis Gallery
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/
The Met
St. Louis Art Museum
https://www.slam.org/explore-the-collection/collection-highlights/
The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org
National Archives
Smithsonian
https://www.si.edu/collections
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