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Newport County arts organizations receive COVID relief funds


Daily News staff
PROVIDENCE The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts awarded nearly $1 million in COVID relief funds to artists, professional arts education associations and arts and culture organizations, including a number in Newport County.
These grants, announced in a press release Monday, will provide needed assistance to organizations, artists and arts educators who continue to experience economic hardship as a result of the COVID pandemic.
“I’m immensely proud that we can provide this essential support to artists and nonprofit arts organizations here in Rhode Island. These are difficult times for everyone in the arts sector,” Randall Rosenbaum, executive director of RISCA, said in announcing the grants. “The pandemic has closed concert halls, theaters and museums, and put working artists out of work. The ability to pay salaries and help artists pay rent and put food on the table is critical to the lives and livelihoods of these Rhode Islanders, and ....

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