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

Round Two Artist Relief Applications Closed

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 GRANTS will be awarded in the amount of $500. If you applied for Round One, your application will be automatically be resubmitted for all future rounds unless you are selected for an awarded grant. You do not need to re-apply.

Generous members of the community have already contributed over $50,000 (of our $100,000 goal) in order to assist one of our most valuable economic resources: our creatives. Applications will open Monday, May 4 and are anticipated to close May 17 (or until we reach 150 applicants). As a result of the overwhelming response in Round One, we anticipate applications will close before the May 17.

Beginning May 18, we will begin reviewing applications received between May 4 – May 17.

We anticipate releasing the application form for Round Three on June 1.

Round One applications are currently being reviewed and we plan on releasing notifications the week of May 11.

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.

For more information, to read the guidelines and to apply:

https://www.santafenm.gov/culture_connects_coalition

In the interest of continuing to provide relief to artists, we also encourage members of the public interested in helping local artists to please contact the Arts and Culture Department to make your contribution and pledge your support: [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

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

PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BEFORE APPLYING.

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.