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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…

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…

Creative Capital: List of Arts Resources During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Creative Capital has always been anchored by a rich spirit of community and mutual generosity, and we believe that continuing communication and exchange are crucial for all of us. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, we have created a list of resources for artists working in all disciplines, as well as arts philanthropists, and arts professionals. More…

New York Foundations Create $75 M. Fund to Support Arts Nonprofits and Social Services Impacted by Coronavirus

Amid the increasing closures brought on by the coronavirus, a consortium of 18 foundations has created a $75 million fund to support small and midsize nonprofit arts and cultural organizations as well as others offering social services.

The NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund, which will be administered by the New York Community Trust, allows organizations to apply for grants and zero-interest loans to “to help them respond to emerging needs, cover losses associated with the disruption of their operations, and help them continue their critical work,” according to a release announcing the fund.

To qualify, organizations must be New York City–based 501(c)(3) organizations that have previously received funding from the city or the state, with an annual operating budget of less than $20 million and a “track record of robust programming and services for New York residents.” More…

NYS Arts Go Online: Virtual Events for All Ages

In these unprecedented times, New York’s arts and culture play as valuable a role in our lives as ever.

New York State Council on the Arts is proud to support their grantees as they ensure that all New Yorkers can continue to experience our creative culture while upholding essential public health measures.

From family art projects to theater, independent film, opera, streaming house concerts and centuries of incredible painting and sculpture, as we practice social distancing, we can still connect through the arts. More…

The Social Distancing Festival

This is a site for celebrating artists and the work that has been cancelled/delayed/disrupted. So far, submissions have included clips from rehearsals, scenes done with cast-mates over webcam, recordings from previous workshops, design plans, and performers just doing the song they were really excited about singing into their webcam. It doesn’t need to be anything formal or polished! Learn more…

Nightly Met Opera Streams

A day after canceling upcoming performances due to concerns around the coronavirus, the Metropolitan Opera announced that it would stream encore presentations from the award-winning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions on the company website for the duration of the closure. The new offering will begin on Monday, March 16 with the 2010 HD performance of Bizet’s Carmen, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring Elīna Garanča in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José.

All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30pm EDT and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. The homepage link will open the performance on the Met Opera on Demand streaming service. The performance will also  be viewable on all Met Opera on Demand apps. Read more…