Culture Connects Coalition

Artist Relief Fund Seeks donations

A fund to support arts and culture in all their expressions for the greater good of our community and constituents

Culture Connects Coalition is a fund to support arts and culture in all their expressions for the greater good of our community and constituents. As our first initiative, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to reduce its greater impact on our community, we have partnered with Lannan Foundation to form the Artist Relief Fund to help those artists most dramatically affected.

As a result of the overwhelming response to Round One and our interest of distributing funds to the greatest number of artists in the community, ALL RELIEF FUNDNG will be awarded in the amount of $500. If you applied for Round One, your application will be automatically be resubmitted for a future round unless you are selected for an awarded grant. You do not need to re-apply.

Round Two applications closed May 17, 2020 with 140 applicants. Anticipation announcement and award of Artist Relief Funds by the end of June.

Please note: it will take time to review applications, award applicants, and have payments processed. We cannot make funding immediately available through this relief fund. We hope artists will have to wait no longer than four to six weeks to receive funding and we will do our best to move quickly.

PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BEFORE APPLYING.

Our guidelines for relief requests are here. If you prefer Spanish, see here.

Call to Action: Help us reach our goal of $100,000 for support of our artistic and cultural bearers that make Santa Fe amazing!

Our fundraising goal remains $100,000 and we halfway there thanks to the generous members of the community that have already pledged funding in order to assist one of our most valuable economic resources: our creatives. 

In the interest of continuing to provide relief to artists, we encourage members of the public interested in helping local artists to make a tax deductible donation of any amount now.  

Questions:  contact Pauline Kanako Kamiyama, Director, Arts and Culture Department at [bot protected email address]; call us at 505.955.6653.

Culture Connects Coalition is a fund to support arts and culture in all their expressions for the greater good of our community and constituents

Here is a terrific conversation we had with The Magazine and Southwest Contemporary. Plus, we have already gotten some wonderful coverage about our new initiative from Hyperallergic and Pasatiempo, as well as The Santa Fe Reporter.

Donate now to support our community. Contact Pauline Kanako Kamiyama, Director Arts and Culture Department to make your pledge now, [bot protected email address]; phone: 505.955.6653.

Thank you to the generosity of our arts community whose compassionate action will help support artists.

Lannan Foundation $10,000 Seed Grant and $15,000 Challenge Grant
                              

Funding distributed by the Santa Fe Art Institute

Here is a list of Covid-19 resources.