Artist Resources: Amid Covid-19

Deadlines

Through May, 2020.

Prizes awarded weekly.

Vital Spaces challenges you to recreate or reinterpret works of art from New Mexico-based collections and post your pictures to Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using #NMtwinning.Check out #mettwinning and #betweenartandquarantine for inspiration. Beginning on May 4, 2020 and continuing for the next four weeks, five submissions from each week will be randomly selected to receive a $200 prize thanks to a generous grant from the Falling Colors Foundation. While anyone is welcome to participate, you must live in New Mexico to be eligible to win a prize. 

At the end of the four weeks, staff members from each institution will vote on the top three submissions amongst all of the posts and those winners will each receive a prize of $300. The winners of all the prizes will have the choice to receive the money personally or to donate it to the All Together New Mexico Fund.

Application Round 3 Begins (Tentative): June 1, 2020

Culture Connects Coalition, an initiative of the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department, is a fund to support arts and culture in all their expressions for the greater good of the City of Santa Fe's community and constituents. In response to COVID-19 pandemic and to reduce its greater impact on our community, Culture Connects has partnered with Lannan Foundation to form the Artist Relief Fund to help those artists most dramatically affected. The next round of rolling applications for Artist Relief Fund Grants up to $1,000 is anticipated to begin June 1, 2020.

Deadline for Applications, Cycle III: June 17, 2020, 11:59 pm

Artist Relief is distributing $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and co-launch the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, designed by Americans for the Arts, to better identify and address the needs of artists moving forward. The initiative is organized by a coalition of national arts grantmakers, and will operate through September 2020.  Before applying, please self-evaluate whether you are experiencing dire financial emergencies during this time and make space for those most urgently in need.

Monthly submission deadlines through October 2020.

Distributed by the Center for Craft and supported by the Windgate Foundation, the Craft Futures Fund supports craft communities throughout the United States and their creative responses to COVID-19. These one-time, unrestricted grants of $5,000 will be disbursed to craft-based education projects that seed resilience, foster community, and amplify impact. 

The project will fund up to $30,000 each month from May 2020 – October 2020 to support craft-based education projects. These one-time, unrestricted grants of $5,000 will be disbursed to craft-based education projects that envision and build new futures for craft.

Ongoing

The Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund is intended to help those pursuing careers as artists or arts administrators whose income has been directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund is for those who self-identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). If you fit this description and you are in need of short-term, immediate financial assistance, they can help. The fund will disburse micro-grants in the amount of $200 per person, on a first-come-first-served basis. If you do not identify as BIPOC, please consider donating to this fund through the project's Kickstarter.

If you are an artist who has suffered financial losses as the result of a project cancelation or postponement due to COVID-19 you can apply for relief through the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund.  Each month FCA receives an average of 95 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-15 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $2,500, and the average grant is $1,600. Applicants must be living in the United States or U.S. territories and have a U.S. Tax ID Number. They must have committed performance or exhibition opportunities, and be able to provide specific dates at the time of application.

Southwest Contemporary is requesting submissions of short videos of exhibitions at commercial galleries, nonprofits, and artist-run exhibition spaces across New Mexico. Videos will be hosted for free on the media company's website and YouTube channel. To participate: 

Take a short video with your smartphone, walking through your current installation, highlighting a few pieces, perhaps with a curator or artist giving a quick overview of the show. The tone can be serious or fun, it’s up to you! Your video can be casual but should provide an enjoyable and clear viewing experience. Make sure you have good lighting, a quiet space, and a steady hand. Videos must be no more than 5 minutes (1-2 minutes is ideal!). 

The New Mexico Tourism Department is focused on sharing relevant information and resources to provide assistance to arts businesses in this moment of crisis.  One of the department's primary initiatives is capturing the economic impact from COVID-19 that arts organizations are experiencing. In order to build best practices and unlock resources for recovery, they're requesting real-time data through an economic impact survey. Please consider contributing to the survey! The sooner they are able to capture the economic impact, the more effective their recovery strategies and tactics will be.

In response to the current global COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in the temporary closure of 516 ARTS, the Albuquerque nonprofit has launched a digital initiative to help contemporary artists stay connected with audiences and community online. Artists from anywhere in the world are invited to participate in the digital project by sharing their work in order to help maintain their daily practices, cope with challenges, and stay inspired. 516 ARTS will feature a selection of the submissions on their social media and website for the duration of our closure, along with images and content selected by our staff.

Earth Care New Mexico has shifted the organizing and staff resources of its Climate Emergency and Youth at the Center campaigns to respond to the immediate needs of the local community in this time of crisis. The organization writes:

Times seem really wild and unpredictable right now and we can isolate and hoard or possibly find a way to stay in community and help each other out. Safe distancing is important, but so is solidarity. Here's the idea: pair those in need in Santa Fe with those able to help by filling out this form. We'll do our best to match offers with requests. Please share this Google form with neighbors, friends, family & on social media so we can reach those who need help & organize our communities to respond.

Americans for the Arts is gathering data and impact stories through an Economic Impact Survey that takes about 5 minutes to complete. The survey captures a broad spectrum of data and stories that demonstrate how arts and culture workers have triumphed and survived this crisis as well as the effect of the outbreak on operations through cancelled events, lost wages, and additional expenses. We encourage you to share this survey with your communities. Make your voice heard!

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Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2020 

The Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS and a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, has announced a second round of emergency relief grants to benefit the local arts community. In partnership with the Fredrick Hammersley Foundation, which is providing $60,000 toward this effort, this round will provide grants of $5,000 to 12 alternative art spaces in New Mexico that have lost income as a result of the cornavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Emergency relief grants are for small, artist-run, alternative visual artspaces in New Mexico that have lost income as a result of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Non-commercial and 501(c)3 non-profit organizations throughout the state are encouraged to apply.