Deadline: 30-Apr-21
Applications are now open for the XI Cycle of Artist Relief Program to support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States.
Artist Relief strives to ensure that artists of all disciplines across the country, in every region, of every race, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability status, and socioeconomic class, have access to this emergency fund.
To ensure equitable distribution of funds, they encourage artists of color, native and Indigenous artists, immigrant artists, disabled artists, LGBTQIAP+ artists, and artists working outside of major cities to apply.
Funding Information
- Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19.
Eligibility Criteria
- Practicing artists living in all 50 states, Tribal Nations, and territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are able to apply.
- Applicants must be 18 or older, able to receive taxable income in the United States regardless of their citizenship status, and have generally lived and worked in the United States for the last two years.
- To be eligible, you must be able to answer ”Yes“ to the prompts listed below. Please note that the Artist Relief coalition partners will make final eligibility determinations as needed.
- I am a practicing artist able to demonstrate a sustained commitment to my work, career, and a public audience;
- I am experiencing dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- I am 18 years of age or older;
- I can provide a Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) after I’ve been notified of my selection;
- I have been living and working in the U.S. for the last two years;
- I am not a full-time employee, board member, director, officer, or immediate family member of any of the coalition partners;
- I have not previously been awarded a relief grant from this fund.
- In efforts to streamline their vetting and selection process, they are asking each applicant to identify with ONE of the listed disciplines below. They understand that many artists practice between and across fields and are multidisciplinary in nature. However, due to our internal capacity, they ask that you do your best to select the discipline with which your work most deeply aligns.
- Craft (ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, metals, textiles, etc.)
- Dance (dancers, choreographers; aerial, ballet, hip-hop, jazz, tap, etc.)
- Design (fashion, graphic, industrial, object, all forms of architecture, etc.)
- Film (animation, documentary, episodic, experimental, narrative, etc.)
- Media (work at the intersection of technology, aesthetics, storytelling, and digital cultures, etc.)
- Music (composers, musicians; classical, contemporary, experimental, folk, instrumental, jazz, pop, world, etc.)
- Theater & Performance (directing, experimental, live action, playwriting, puppetry, tactical and site performance, etc.)
- Traditional Arts (work related to the continuity and evolution of a tradition and/or cultural heritage such as cultural dance, cultural music, oral expression, and traditional crafts, etc.)
- Visual Art (installation, painting, performance art, photography, sculpture, sound art, video, etc.)
- Writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literature for children, criticism, graphic novels, journalism, arts writing, etc.)
For more information, visit https://www.artistrelief.org/