Arts Sector Emergency Resources
This list is not comprehensive. For more information, please refer to the Databases of Arts Sector Emergency Resources below.
1. Nationwide Organizations Offering a Range of Services to Artists in Emergencies
The Actors Fund
Social services and financial assistance primarily for performing artists, but some funds aid visual artists.
Searchable database of emergency resources throughout the U.S.
http://www.actorsfund.org
Database:http://actorsfund.org/services-and-programs/resources
Eastern Region: 1-212-221-7399, x. 119; intakeny@actorsfund.org
Central Region: 1-312-372-0989, dtowne@actorsfund.org
Western Region: 1-323-933-9244, intakela@actorsfund.org
CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund+Artists’ Emergency Resources)
Emergency readiness, relief and recovery programs, financial and educational, for craft artists throughout the U.S.
Information services for artists in all disciplines affected by disasters.
1-800-229-2306
http://craftemergency.org
Also check with any discipline and geographic-specific service organizations to see what they are doing.
2. Databases of Arts Sector Emergency Resources
The Actors’ Fund
http://actorsfund.org/services-and-programs/resources
NYFASource, based at The New York Foundation for the Arts
http://www.nyfa.org
Go to "NYFASource" for a searchable database of artists' resources.
Emergency-specific resources:
http://www.nyfa.org/source/content/content/disasterresources/disasterresources.aspx
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
http://craftemergency.org/programs/relief/recovery/
Chicago Artists Resource
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/dance/node/440 and
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/dance/node/252
Springboard for the Arts
This is a very good resource for regionally and locally based funds, as well as national sources.
http://www.springboardforthearts.org/Resources/Resource_Search_Advanced.asp?...ResourceCategoryID.
Pew Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Resource Guide
published in 2006
www.pewarts.org/PFAResourceGuide.pdf
Artist Trust
http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/resources#cat38
Women Arts Directory of Emergency Funds
http://www.womenarts.org/fund/EmergencyFunds.htm
South Arts Recovery Resources for Artists and Arts Organizations
http://www.southarts.org/recovery
Americans for the Arts Listings
http://www.artsusa.org/pdf/get_involved/erfindresources.pdf
3. Financial Assistance in Emergencies
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
For visual artists
1-212-226-05811
http://www.gottliebfoundation.org/emergency_grants.htm
Artists Fellowship, Inc.
1-646-230-9833
http://www.artistfellowship.com
Change, Inc.
1-212-473-3742
Herbert and Irene Wheeler Foundation
718-951-0581
Joan Mitchell Foundation
The Foundation aids and assists painters and sculptors, and provides targeted relief to those affected by a catastrophic event, such as Hurricane Katrina.
info@joanmitchellfoundation.org
http://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
For painters, artists and sculptors who work on paper, including printmakers
http://www.pkf.org/grant.html
Springboard for the Arts Emergency Relief Fund
They also have an Artist’s Loan Fund
http://www.springboardforthearts.org/services/ERF.asp
4. Legal Aid
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
This national network has provided help in past disasters. For a directory, go to:
http://vlany.org/resources/vladirectory.php
5. Emergency Relief Residencies
Alliance of Artist Communities
The Alliance for Artist Communities sponsored a program for hurricane-affected Gulf Coast artists at six California artist communities, with the aid of the James Irvine Foundation. Check them as a resource.
http://www.artistcommunities.org
6. Ongoing Programs
Kala Art Institute
http://www.kala.org
Santa Fe Art Institute
http://www.sfai.org/applications.html#em
Residency Director Michelle Laflamme-Childs at (505) 424-5050 or mchilds@sfai.org
7. Artist Relocation Programs
A number of cities and towns provide tax credits, loans, grants, and other financial incentives
for purchase or construction of affordable artists’ housing, work or retail space in designated districts)—programs that may be a post-disaster option. For a listing of these communities, go to
www.squidoo.com/artistsrelocation