anti-racism resources
These are a list of resources to help educate on the systemic racism that exists in our country. Included in the document are petitions, books, guides, movies, and websites. We will be updating the list continuously. Please email Lydia Garcia, Communications Manager, if you have a resource you would like to add at lydia@artleaguehouston.org.
This document created by the National Guild for Community Arts Education is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
RESOURCES for individual creatives and Arts organizations
The following is a list of resources for individual creatives and arts organizations. This list will be updated as new resources become available. Please email Erin Carty, Communications Manager, if you have a resource you would like to add at erin@artleaguehouston.org.
Fresh Art’s Artist Resource Library features a curated selection of artist business resources including career-focused articles, templates, and tool kits, plus videos and virtual conversations featuring Houston area artists and experts.
Houston Arts Alliance offers resources to help artists and non-profits navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. HAA has created simple guides to help you through the process, specific to either individual artists or administrators running an arts organization. Also, if you have time or financial capacity to help others, we've created a guide for that too!
Houston Arts Alliance is compiling resources to help the arts & cultural community remain resilient in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. One approach is to develop a way to make events digitally accessible to your audience. This link includes tools, articles, and examples to help with this.
Texas Commission on the Arts offers resources including links to state, regional, and national sites offering assistance.
Humanities Texas invites Texas cultural and educational institutions facing financial hardship resulting from the coronavirus pandemic to apply immediately for fast-track Relief Grants.
Americans for the Arts has created a survey that is designed to collect information about the financial and human impacts that the spread of the coronavirus has had on arts and cultural organizations. The survey also collects basic information about the participating organizations so that the data can be parsed by specific geographic regions, artistic disciplines, and budget categories.
CERF+ emergency assistance includes grants and/or brokered assistance, such as booth fee waivers and discounts or donations on supplies and equipment. Artists interested in CERF+ emergency assistance must first complete an inquiry form.
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.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance - The U.S. Department of Labor has announced new guidance outlining flexibilities that states have in administering their unemployment insurance (UI) programs to assist Americans affected by the current outbreak of COVID-19.
Learn what financial relief is available to you as an artist, how to navigate the system and what actions you can take to help stabilize your finances.
If you are a musician who has lost income due to a cancelled gig as a result of the Coronavirus / Covid-19 outbreak, please fill out the form below to apply to receive support from Equal Sound's Corona Relief Fund.
The PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund is a small grants program for professional—published or produced—writers in acute or unexpected financial crises. Depending on the situation and level of need, grants are in the range of $2,000.
This website is a list specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community. This includes, but is not limited to, actors, designers, producers, technicians, stage managers, musicians, composers, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, craft artists, teaching artists, dancers, writers & playwrights, photographers, etc.
Founded in 1914, Musicians Foundation is the country’s oldest independent nonprofit organization dedicated to providing financial assistance to musicians and their families in times of need, crisis or transition.
The Recording Academy® and its affiliated charitable foundation MusiCares® have established the COVID-19 Relief Fund to help our peers in the music community affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Our Entertainment Assistance Program functions as an entryway and guide through The Fund’s many programs when you’re facing personal or work-related problems. It is also a conduit for emergency financial assistance in times of pressing need or in response to catastrophic events.
The Artists’ Fellowship provides emergency aid to professional visual artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship to professional visual artists practicing in drawing, painting, sculpting, installations, graphics, fine art photography, and fine art ceramics.
Resources, articles, and tips for organizations and individuals.
Visit this site for a comprehensive list of Resources for Individual Creatives and Arts Organizations, Mental Health and Well-being Resources, and Resources for Immediate Response. ALH would like to thank the Arts Council of Forth Worth for sharing their list!