COVID-19 Resources for Artists

At Studio Two Three, it is our fundamental belief that artists create the conditions for a healthy and vibrant society. Since 2009, we've provided thousands of artists with 24/7 studio access, robust educational programs, artist residency & essential support of a creative community. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is having an immediate and devastating impact on our arts and cultural community. Now more than ever, we are committed to supporting artists and amplifying their critical role in our communities.

We have compiled the resource list below to help our artist community and will continue to update this list as resources become available. 
As we face this unprecedented challenge, we are deeply grateful for you, our community of artists, art lovers & activists. We hope you and those you love are safe. We are in this together and we will get through this together. 

Please email info@studiotwothree.org if you have additional resources you think we should share.

Funding Opportunities

STIMULUS CHECK INFORMATION

  • Our CPA, Gary Levine, shares some guidance on stimulus checks for all of us.

NYFA EMERGENCY ARTISTS GRANT

  • New York Foundation for the Arts has compiled a list of emergency grants for US artists. 

CREATIVE CAPITAL RESOURCES

  • In response to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), Artist Trust has created a growing list of resources to support artists. 

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS RESOURCES

  • A robust list of COVID-19 resources for individual artists and arts organizations.

Rents, Mortgages, Utilities & Student Loans

Learn about your options if you are unable to pay your bills due to the pandemic.

DOMINION ENERGY COVID-19 UPDATE

  • Dominion Energy will not shut off power or gas for non-payment.

CITY OF RICHMOND PUBLIC UTILITIES

  • City of Richmond will not turn off water due to nonpayment.

BANKS OFFERING DEFERMENT ON MORTGAGES DURING CORONAVIRUS

  • A list of banks by asset size and the mortgage assistance programs they’re offering to those adversely affected by COVID-19.

FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN FORBEARANCE INFO

  • Options & info for students, borrowers and parents.

COMCAST ASSISTANCE DURING COVID-19

  • No disconnects or late fees for nonpayment, pausing data plans, Xfinity WiFi free for everyone.

VERIZON ASSISTANCE DURING COVID-19

  • No disconnects or late fees for nonpayment, you must fill out a short form on their site.

Pro Bono Work & Discounts For Artists

Legal PRO BONO WORK FOR ARTISTS

Artists who are worried about contracts or business-related legal issues, please feel free to reach out to
James Williams <james@tingenwilliams.com>

He is generously donating his time to offer free or heavily discounted legal fees. *James can't offer to cover trademark registration services, copyright registration services, or other services that involve filing fees for free, but can offer free or heavily discounted legal fees for his time. 

GENERAL ARTIST RESOURCES

Space Grant 1708

  • This is an opportunity for an individual artist to use the gallery as a studio space, our storefront window as an exhibition platform, and more. Space Grant 1708 offers the gallery to artists and creatives from all disciplines, media, and interests to work where they might not have the space otherwise.

Richmond Artists Facebook Page

  • For artists in the Richmond metro area. Have a job you need help with? Temp work, handyman help, creating websites, manual labor, babysitting, etc? Post your jobs here, and let's help each other out, and support each other during the Covid-19 outbreak when work may be hard to come by for freelance artists.

COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources

  • This list is specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community.

Community Care in the Time of Coronavirus

  • The U.S. Department of Arts & Culture has created a resource list for creative community care and teaching, healing, and social justice resources.

$5000 Artist Grant from Artist Relief

  • An organization combined on arts grant-makers coming together to support artists in need.

CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund) 

  • CERF+ provides rapid relief and career recovery loans through their own grants (for artists working in craft disciplines) as well as a list of emergency resources for artists in other disciplines. Additionally, CERF+ just launched the COVID-19 Response Fund to support artists working in craft disciplines. "This fund is essential to our rapid and effective response to those artists who are suffering severe health impacts from the coronavirus, ensuring that CERF+ has the funds necessary to respond to this unprecedented crisis," said CERF in an email release. If you are able, please donate to the CERF+ COVID-19 Response Fund.

Artists' Charitable Fund

  • Colorado-based Artists' Charitable Fund assists American visual fine artists (painters and sculptors) living anywhere in the United States by paying a portion of their medical/dental/eye-care bills. For example, the Fund has purchased a wheelchair, paid for eye surgery, provided funding for an artificial leg, paid partial medical expenses of several artists who have cancer, as well as other needs for medical assistance. You can find out more about the fund as well as donate here. 

Artists' Fellowship, Inc.

  • The Artists’ Fellowship provides emergency aid to professional fine artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship.

  • The organization defines eligibility to “Professional” is defined as those visual artists who make their livelihood through sales as reported on a Schedule C with a U.S. Federal tax return. An active exhibition history is also an important part of documenting “professional.” You can find the application here.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

  • Emergency Grants offers immediate assistance to artists that have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding. Artists should be living and working anywhere in the United States, though projects can occur in the U.S. and abroad.

  • 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 now $1,600.

  • These grants do not cover life-related emergencies such as food, rent, medical bills, childcare, and other basic necessities, reimbursement for expenses that you have already incurred, or projects with no scheduled exhibition or performance dates, so look closely at the requirements and limitations.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts 

  • The Foundation will disburse $1,000 grants to artists who have had performances or exhibitions canceled or postponed because of the COVID-19 virus.

Rauschenberg Emergency Grants

  • The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation partnered to offer a new medical emergency aid program for artists. The one-time Rauschenberg Emergency Grants will provide visual and media artists and choreographers with up to $5,000 to cover a number of unforeseen medical expenses. There is no deadline; applications will be accepted and reviewed by the panel on a monthly basis beginning in late May/early June 2020. 

Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund

  • If you are a musician who has lost income due to a canceled gig as a result of the Coronavirus / Covid-19 outbreak, this new grant provides monetary support to musicians who have lost income due to a canceled gig as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund

  • This emergency fund can provide up to $200 for people of color that are either working artist or art administration and are affected by COVID-19.

The Photographer Fund

  • Format has put together a $25,000 relief fund designed to help photographers facing financial difficulties during the outbreak. The fund offers $500 per person.

Artist Relief

  • 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 will distribute $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. Check out the FAQs and apply here.

COVID-19 INFORMATION

COVID-19 INFORMATION

CDC Information on what the virus is and how to protect yourself.