Artist Relief
U.S. grantmaking organization
Founded | 2020 |
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Type | Financial Relief |
Focus | Emergency Grant Distribution |
Method | Direct aid |
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Artist Relief is an emergency initiative founded in 2020 by a coalition of national arts grantmakers to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . [1] [2] [3]
History
Artist Relief is an emergency initiative organized by the Academy of American Poets , Artadia , Creative Capital , Foundation for Contemporary Arts , MAP Fund, National YoungArts Foundation , and United States Artists —all mid-sized national arts grantmakers—to distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and co-launch the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers , designed by Americans for the Arts , to better identify and address the needs of artists moving forward. [2] [1] As of August 2020, the initiative had distributed $13.5 million through these grants. [4]
In 2020, the annual concert series Hardly Strictly Bluegrass worked with Artist Relief to administer a $1 million artist relief fund to musicians effected by the COVID-19 pandemic. [5]
References
- 1 2 "Are You an Artist in Need of Aid? Here Are Dozens of Emergency Grants, Medical Funds, and Other Resources to Help" . artnet News . 2020-04-14 . Retrieved 2020-05-22 .
- 1 2 "Artist Relief Emergency Fund Receives Over 55,000 Applicants in Barely 2 Weeks" . Observer . 2020-04-24 . Retrieved 2020-05-22 .
- ↑ Quito, Anne (9 April 2020). "US artists can now get $5,000 emergency grants without a tedious application process" . Quartz . Retrieved 2020-05-22 .
- ↑ "Artist Relief Raises $2 Million for Individual Artists" . American Theatre . 2020-09-25. Archived from the original on 2020-10-10 . Retrieved 2021-03-27 .
- ↑ "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass announces full lineup—and $1 million artist relief" . 48 hills . 2020-09-25 . Retrieved 2020-10-26 .
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