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As 2020 draws to a close the Nevada County Arts Council is inviting professional artists whose livelihoods have been impacted by the COVID-19 public health crisis to apply for relief funding.
Eliza Tudor, executive director at the council, said in a press release, “We are grateful that, with the support of our coalition of local arts organizations, we have now reached a critical sum from which to launch the application phase of the Nevada County Artist Relief Fund, and we invite artists in all disciplines to apply for a micro-grant.”
Artists who wish to apply for micro-grants can do so by visiting Nevada County Arts Council’s Artist Relief Fund page at http://www.nevadacountyarts.org/artist-relief-fund
Friday, December 18, 2020 1:00 am
Artists share cheer with Virtual Holiday Spectacular
Streaming showalso serves asarts fundraiser
COREY MCMAKEN | The Journal Gazette
Local musician Andy Lott realized a few months ago that it was looking more and more as if Christmas wasn t going to be the same this year for local artists or the community.
Some performances were going virtual because of the pandemic. Some were outright canceled. There were going to be fewer opportunities for gig workers such as musicians, and similarly few opportunities for the community to enjoy the arts at the holidays.
So in August, Lott and his wife began thinking of ways to make that connection between musicians and the community. As they talked to members of the local arts community, the project snowballed to become the Virtual Holiday Spectacular, which will be streamed free Sunday, then be available to replay for a month on Facebook. No Facebook account is needed to watch the stream.
The emergency fund is open to poetry organizations and organizations that use poetry as an expression of their missions, located in the United States. This includes organizations fighting for social justice and working to advance racial equity in poetry and affiliated art.
One-time emergency grants will be awarded in the range of $5,000–$20,000, determined by organizations’ annual budgets and requested funds. The application period closes on March 31, 2021, with two awarding dates: January 31, 2021 and March 31, 2021.
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While the Foundation is still working to define how its grantmaking can best identify and meet the needs of its stakeholders in the long-term, this fund aims to provide support for urgent needs due to immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On a mission to teach their students about descriptive writing while guiding them to impact their community, student teacher Alicia Frost Vandevorst and teacher Michelle Litton Ogaidi organized “The Mirror Project.”
They challenged their students the sixth- through eighth-grade PACE program at Forest Charter School to set a scene through a piece of descriptive writing, which 26 local artists then used as inspiration for pieces of art meant to reflect the students’ writing as closely as possible.
Ogaidi said that, after asking the local artists for their help, she and Vandevorst wanted the project to support the local artist community in return.