Livestreaming REAL TALK!, a guided response to Creating New Futures: Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance, a tentatively-titled, living document-in-progress, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 14 May 2020 at 12 p.m. HST (Hawaii, UTC-10) / 2 p.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC-8) / 3 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4). Produced by Abrons Arts Center and The Creating New Futures Working Group. More…
Author: Emily Caffery
Dance Magazine: Has Anyone Asked Artists What They Need?
By Raja Feather Kelly | May 11, 2020
It’s Monday, May 4, 2020 at 6:20 pm and I start a text chain with 10 artists I find in my phone. I’m at home, I am bored, and I am in this sort of limbo with myself. Dusty Springfield has been on repeat. In my head. My love-letter-slash-sad-love-song to New York City right now: I just don’t know what to do with myself. More…
Opinion: People Need Art in Times of Crisis. That’s Why Museums Should Be Among the First Institutions to Reopen for Business—Here’s How
artnet News Op-Ed: The cultural strategy expert Andras Szanto offers a step-by-step look at how museums could help the public regain a sense of normalcy. More…
Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts
The Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and the Cy Twombly Foundation have partnered to establish an emergency relief grant program, administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), that will provide $1,250,000 in aid to Tri-State non-salaried workers in the visual arts who have experienced financial hardship from lack of income or opportunity as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis. NYFA wishes to thank the Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation for being the first funder to contribute to the Tri-State Fund, following the announcement of the Fund. Those interested in donating to the fund may do so here. More…
Join the first-ever National Arts Action Digital Summit
Americans for the Arts is bringing a brand-new experience to engage with hundreds of arts advocates from across the country virtually at the National Arts Action Digital Summit. The National Arts Action Digital Summit includes three plenary and ten issue-specific webinars live April 27 through May 1, 2020. Over these five days, you’ll gain a depth of knowledge from policy experts at Americans for the Arts and many of our National Partners, including sessions on the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Education, Charitable Giving, Arts and Juvenile Justice, and many more. More…
CUNY Law Film Fest 2020
This collection of documentaries and films presented by our community and special guests explores issues at the intersection of social justice and advocacy.
Watch the featured films on your schedule and then meet us on online each week on Friday at 12:30PM for discussions with law professors, journalists, filmmakers, organizers, and a few special guests. More…
Louis Armstrong’s museum has gone silent, but ‘Pops’ is still talking
For years, Armstrong’s personal, reel-to-reel tapes have been a kind of hidden jewel, recognized and accessed by scholars and jazzniks through the archives at Queens College. But this week, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, also in Queens, launched a free, curated online program to bring the material to a wider public. “That’s My Home” is the richly designed story of Armstrong told in chapters with archival photos, essays from research collections director Ricky Riccardi, and a wealth of fascinating sound clips. More…
The Arts Respond to COVID-19
Boston University’s Arts Administration program has compiling media items related to the pandemic, aiming to highlight the creativity of our field in these listings of streaming performances, virtual exhibitions, and media reports of the ways in which the crisis is affecting the arts community – and the ways in which artists and arts organizations are responding. We are also tracking community resources to support artists and arts organizations in these difficult times. More…
Navigating COVID-19 for Nonprofits: From Financial Triage to Scenario Planning
Nonprofit financial experts from Fiscal Management Associates offer information and resources in this free webinar sponsored by Wallace on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.
In these unprecedented times, many nonprofit organizations are being challenged in a variety of ways, including shifting staffing structures, sudden changes in service delivery or capacity, and current or future loss of revenue. These changes can put the financial health and resilience of nonprofits at risk. This webinar will review some of the key areas organizations should consider focusing on and provide tools they can use in navigating this process. More…
The Cultural World Is Ailing. That’s Why 23 Arts Groups Have United to Give $5,000 to 100 Artists Every Week Until September
The presidents of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Arison Arts Foundation explain why they helped create a new $10 million relief effort for artists. More…