Artist Resources: Statera Responds to COVID-19

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March 13, 2020

Dear Statera Community,

As the impact of COVID-19 becomes more wide-reaching, we activate around the specific threat to those whose livelihoods depend on the arts. In addition to the effects on work weeks, dollars, and jobs, we recognize the impact on community for those in containment situations, and out of work. Statera continues to advocate on behalf of artists everywhere. Here are a few specific avenues for proactive support:

• Immediate support: Statera has compiled an Emergency Response Resource Directory with links to financial support, advocacy channels, and more.

• Advocacy: Let your voice be heard with those advocating for Congress to keep the arts at the forefront of relief and support decisions.

• Readiness: ArtsReady is “an online emergency preparedness service by and for arts/cultural nonprofits with customized business continuity plans for post-crisis sustainability.”

• Community: Disrupting isolation in coming weeks is paramount. We encourage you to connect via Statera’s virtual community like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. In addition, Statera will offer multiple virtual community opportunities for Mentorship, Membership, and SWAN communities in the coming month.

Above all, we recognize that physical distance does not need to mean loss or distance of community. We continue to innovate around ways to support this community during this time and beyond.

Yours,

Melinda Pfundstein, Executive Director
& The Statera Team

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Artist Resources

Advocacy for Freelance Artists & Arts Organizers

• Covid 19 Freelance Aritst Resources, a co-created list facilitated by Hannah Fenlon, Ann Marie Lonsdale, Abigail Vega.

• Resources for the Artist Organization Field, a co-created word doc facilitated by Common Field

Social Justice Action

• Additional Resources for Facing Coronavirus by adrienne maree brown

• Art Became the Oxygen: An Artistic Response Guide created by the US Dept. of Arts & Culture (USDAC)

• Caring Accross Distance: Some Things to Consider Before Movement Gatherings During COVID-19 by Maryse Mitchell-Brody

• Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens via Healing Justice

• COVID-19 Preparedness for the Arts Sector via the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness & Emergency Response

• Performing Arts Alliance, the national policy advocate, leadership forum, and learning network for America’s nonprofit performing arts organizations, artists, and allies.

For Artists who are Caregivers

• Care for your Caronavirus Anxiety via Shine Self-Care Community

• Centering People with Chronic Illness via Chronic Illness Leadership for Emergent Times (CILET)

• Supporting Artists with Families in Our COVID-19 Plans via Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL)

TRAVEL & VISA INformation FOR ARTISTS

• How the current travel bans will affect artists via Artists From Abroad

• International Artist Visa Processeing via The Performing Arts Alliance

Funding for Artists

• Comprehensive List of Funding Opportunities from 3Arts

• Emergency Grants – Foundation for Contemporary Arts 

• Emergency Grants – New York Foundation for the Arts for visual artists

• Emergency Grants – Rauschenberg Foundation 

• Emergency Grants – WomenArts 

• Emergency Relief Programs – Alliance of Artist Communities

• Emergency Grants for Visual Artists, a comprehensive list with tips

• AGMA Relief Fund, administered by The Actor’s Fund

• Actors Fund Emergency Financial Assistance (not just for actors)

• CERF+ Artist Safety Net focusing on craft artists

• Shade Literary Arts Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund 

• Local 802 Emergency Relief for musicians

• The National Writers Union Freelance Solidarity Project for writers

• I Lost My Gig

• PEN America Writers Emergency Fund for writers

• Emergency Grants – Dramatists Guild Foundation

• Emergency Funding – CERF + The Artists Safety Net

• MusiCares, a fund by The Grammys

• Missed Tour, merch for sale to support musicians

• Musicians Foundation Emergency Fund for musicians

• Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

BEST PRACTICES FOR ONLINE TEACHING, LEARNING, and GATHERING

• Accessible Teaching in the Time of COVID-19 via Mapping Access

• Distance Learning Tips via NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study

• Resources for Moving Dance-Based Pedagogy Online via Dance Studies Association

• Remote Teaching Resources a spreadsheet managed by Daniel Stanford, Director of Faculty Development & Technology Innovation, Center for Teaching and Learning, DePaul University

• Teaching Theatre Online: A Shift in Pedagogy Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak by Dr. Daphnie Sicre, Loyola Marymount University

• Teaching Theatre in an Online Format, a 21-min video offering from Michael Rohd, teacher, director, Founding Artistic Director of Sojourn Theatre Company and member of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice.

• “Ways of Gathering In the Age of COVID-19” via HowlRound

Local Resources & INfo

• BATON ROUGE Arts Council creative relief for artists during COVID-19

• MISSISSIPPI Arts Commission COVID-19 resources for the Arts Sector

• NEW YORK CITY Small Business Services Assistance and Guidance During COVID-19

• NEW YORK CITY CultureAID, a collaborative network committed to strengthening NYC’s cultural community before, during, and after disasters.

• NEW YORK STATE Council on the Arts resouces for Arts & Cultural Organizations

• SEATTLE Artist Relief Fund facilitated by Ijeoma Oluo

• SOUTH CAROLINA Arts COVID-19 Response

• WASHINGTON STATE Arts Commission is posting daily updates on COVID-19

• WEST COAST: GoFundMe Supporting Performing Artists