Good Afternoon,
Here is the latest COVID-19 News Update.
All the best,
From: Jerelle Jenkins <jejenkins@artsusa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 12:33 PM
Greetings,
Here’s the latest Coronavirus (COVID-19) news…
A reminder that we are circulating this news digest weekly on Tuesday. We are continuing to update the Resource Center on a regular basis. If you see interesting or helpful items or have a resource to share, please email me at jejenkins@artsusa.org.
We invite you to share this news roundup with your networks and colleagues.
AFTA NEWS/UPDATES
- American Rescue Plan State & Local Block Grant Arts Tracker -
Help us document your success and inspire other arts organizations by example! If you are working with your state or local city, county, or tribe governments to secure ARP block grants for economic relief and recovery for the arts, please take a few minutes
to fill out the Americans for the Arts Tracker Google Form, so we can share your examples.
- Check out the new Creative Workers.net! This site now houses the Put Creative Workers to Work policy platform, talking
points, coalition and endorsers list, and action steps.
- We urge all arts and cultural organizations to complete the new COVID-19 Impact Survey for Organizations.
This revised survey enables Americans for the Arts to continue tracking the human and financial impacts of COVID-19 on arts organizations as well as understand the challenges with recovery and re-opening. All types of arts and cultural organizations should
participate. Please share the link with other organizations and businesses in your community.
- Americans for the Arts and Artist Relief, with support from the Ford Foundation, have launched a new COVID-19
Impact Survey for Artists. This revised survey enables the partners to gauge what is happening to our creative economy and address what is needed to provide relief and spur recovery. All types of creative workers should participate practicing artists,
culture bearers, educators and teaching artists, creative entrepreneurs, and hobby artists). Please share this link with your artist networks.
- Current Research Findings (June 28, 2021): COVID-19’s Impact on The Arts—The coronavirus continues to have a devastating
impact on America’s arts sector. Even as arts organizations cautiously begin to open, artists remain among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce. 99% of producing and presenting organizations have cancelled events and financial losses
to nonprofit arts organizations are $16.5 billion. Among organizations yet to reopen, 42% lack the funds needed to restart in-person programming and most expect it will take 3+ months to assemble those funds.
- Book Randy Cohen, VP of Research to speak to your community’s arts leaders and decision makers about the pandemic’s impact and the vital role
the arts can play in rebuilding your community.
- On behalf of Americans for the Arts and Arts Action Fund members, Nina Ozlu Tunceli participates in Daily Briefings with the SBA’s Shuttered Venue team to ask your questions, provide
problem case examples, and learn the latest. Get Nina’s up-to-the-minute takeaways with her SBA Daily Updates posted at
https://www.artsactionfund.org/news and social media. You can also follow Nina on Twitter
@Nina4arts for daily tweets.
- OFFICE HOURS! Extended through 2021 on Fridays (excluding holidays) from 11:00a to 12:00p
EDT. Join Nina Ozlu Tunceli with the Americans for the Arts Action Fund to get answers to your most pressing questions about navigating the CARES Act, Economic Aid Act, and American Rescue Plan. Check the link for any additional dates or occasional
blackout dates.
- For our latest breaking news, legislative updates, and technical assistance on COVID 19 Federal Resources, please visit www.ArtsActionFund.org/COVID19Resources
- 2021 COVID-19 Arts Resources Table – The table provides information on all of the new and expanded federal
resources for artists and arts organizations as a result of the economic aid package enacted on December 27, 2020.
- Book
Nina for your next local, state, or national webinar related to federal economic opportunities for the arts such as the CARES Act, Economic Aid Act, and American Rescue Plan. Free for members.
FIELD PROGRAMMING
(We will feature new offerings here – free to low-cost opportunities. Previous listings have been moved down to below the signature)
The Rescue Plan’s Grants to Local Arts Agencies for Subgranting program recognizes the central role that local arts agencies play in supporting artists, enhancing the quality of life in their communities, and increasing
public access to the arts. Local arts agencies are valued partners of the Arts Endowment, greatly extending our reach and impact to assist communities responding to the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for an information session
with staff from the National Endowment for the Arts, hosted by Nina Ozlu Tunceli. This session is intended for local
arts agencies.
The Rescue Plan’s Grants to Organizations program will be carried out through one-time grants to eligible organizations including, but not limited to, nonprofit arts organizations, local arts agencies, arts service organizations,
units of state or local government, federally recognized tribal communities or tribes, and a wide range of other organizations that can help advance the goals of this program. Join us for an information session with staff from the National Endowment for the
Arts, hosted by Nina Ozlu Tunceli.
FIELD NEWS
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
THEATRE, DANCE & MUSIC
GENERAL NEWS
RELIEF FUNDS & GRANTS
- RJE Sprout Fund Invites Proposals From Artists Working With
Underserved Communities: A total of $50,000 will be awarded in June 2021, but awards will continue to be administered throughout the calendar year on an ongoing basis. All artists – whether formally trained, self-taught, or whose creative work falls outside
traditional art forms – are encouraged to apply. Artists are also encouraged to apply for funds for projects that involve their communities (e.g., art classes, art therapy, outreach, and non-traditional projects). Deadline: Rolling.
Thanks for reading. We hope you find this news digest to be a helpful tool to navigate this very complex situation, and welcome feedback at services@artsusa.org. If you were
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Equity and Local Arts Engagement Team
Americans for the Arts
Best,
Jerelle Jenkins
Local Arts Services Coordinator
Americans for the Arts
202.371.2830 x2086
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