Hello fellow artists! Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, we have widespread unemployment amongst people in the arts. Vallejo Gantner (the former Artistic Director of PS122 and now the Artistic and Executive Director of the Onassis Foundation) is independently creating a website so that artists can sell their skills to people who can and will pay for them. I know that there are a lot of side jobs that people have that they can no longer participate in and so we are attempting to make it simpler for you to make some money while you’re trapped in your home! More…
Month: March 2020
American Theatre: New York’s Downtown Theatre Stars Find a Way to Give Back
NEW YORK CITY: Broadway artists have had their living-room extravaganza to benefit the Actors’ Fund. But what about New York’s Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and downtown artists, especially those living paycheck to paycheck, and in all too many cases below the poverty line?
That’s where the Trickle Up comes in. This new “grass-roots subscription platform” will feature a curated group of established artists, who will share videos of solo performances, conversation, and other behind-the-scenes goodies, and donate the proceeds to other New York theatre and performance artists in need. More…
Vulture: How One Theater Company Is Facing a Dark Spring
March 19, 2020 | By Helen Shaw
If you time the Theater Shutdown from Thursday, March 12, then we’re through day seven. Seven days of turning into the City that Never Gathers. Seven days! Time enough for God to make a world. But as we move further into the crisis, it also seems to have been enough time to rock ours to its foundations. New York culture exists right at the survivalist brink at the best of times, and with the violence of its forced closure starting to reverberate through a hand-to-mouth sub-economy, doubts have started to grow. How exactly are we going to reboot all of live performance? How far do these repercussions go? More…
Performing Arts Alliance: Overview of COVID Paid Leave and Employer Relief Provisions
We wanted to share this updated information with you from the federal agencies responsible for administering paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, signed into law on March 18. Following is a top-line overview with direct links to information available from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Both agencies are expected to release more details this week, which should provide answers about how the requirements and relief apply to staff, artists, and independent contractors who are not able to work due to program cancellations; inability to telework; and other impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. Performing Arts Alliance will keep you up to date as those details become available. More…
COVID-19 Art Stories
When the first countries began to lock down in response to COVID-19, I was in the midst of researching the aftermath of the Black Death in York in the fourteenth century, and the rise of the documented practice of arts management. The urgency of what was happening in the world almost seven centuries after those events led me to want to capture and amplify the stories of those in the front lines of arts and culture. These are their words, unedited. More…
NAPAMA: COVID-19
NAPAMA is working on targeted resources for agents, managers, and self-represented artists. This information will be updated as more links and information are shared and become available.
A task force created by NAPAMA has developed a list of frequently asked questions and responses regarding the coronavirus/COVID-19 epidemic. The FAQs will be helpful for the entire field with special focus on issues facing agents, managers, and self-represented artists.
BRIC: Resources for Artists During a Public Health Crisis
As we take heightened precautions to support public health initiatives, including temporarily closing our doors, we want to maintain our unwavering support of the artistic and creative community and ensure that you continue to thrive. To that end, we have compiled a list of shared resources from local and national arts and culture organizations.
These resources offer assistance, such as financial support and opportunities for artists to continue to express their creative potential during these difficult times. More…
Digital Tools for Artists to Run a Remote Career During Coronavirus
At least temporarily, the world around us is changing. Especially in stressful times such as these, we need art in our daily lives. We can still come together and use art as healing. Because although we are being asked to do our part and stay in, it’s now easier than ever to stay connected to our communities and still run our art businesses online. To help the artists who feel shocked by these changes, we rounded up our favorite tools that make it easier to run an art business online. More…
Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund are standing up for the arts in America during COVID-19!
Request your members of Congress ensure Congress will include $4 billion—to be distributed though the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry, and expand eligibility through additional federal programs to ensure artists, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in the creative economy can utilize business interruption relief. More…
Creative Capital: Online Arts Events During the COVID-19 Outbreak
We have created a list of events that have moved online due to the crisis, in an effort to support artists, arts professionals, and cultural organizations, as well as to provide an enriching experience for those isolated at home as COVID-19 continues to spread. More…