How do you get people who are not on your boat onboard when it comes to the usefulness, value, and impact of arts and culture on communities? In this workshop, learn to match what you have to what they need, use language that they understand, and back it up.
Calling on Artists & Creative Workers to Share Their COVID-19 Experience
Americans for the Arts and Artist Relief, with support from the Ford Foundation, have launched a second-round survey to understand what is happening to creative workers as we approach the end of the year, and what is needed for recovery. This survey collects the data and stories we need to advocate for artists and creative workers, so we can all come out stronger on the other side.
Nominate a traditional artist for the Indiana Heritage Fellowship Award
Deadline extended to January 20, 2021
The Indiana Heritage Fellowship Award recognizes a traditional artist who has made outstanding contributions to their artistic tradition and to their community. The award honors an individual’s long-term achievement within an art form that is rooted in community life in Indiana. Recipients of this award will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and an art prize.
Watch the recording of the informational workshop hosted by TAI Director Jon Kay and contact TAI for assistance with your nomination package at tradarts@indiana.edu.
Mental health resources for artists
Feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, or alone? It can help to connect to others. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, free, confidential support is available. To be connected to a crisis counselor, call 211 and enter your zip code, then follow the prompts and select number 3 for the Be Well Crisis Helpline.
More help lines here: https://bewellindiana.com/#support
- Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
- 16 Directories for Therapists of Color
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
- Free Online Guided Meditation
- What to do if you can’t afford therapy
- Disability Support for entertainment professionals and their families
- Be Well Indiana - mental health resources for Hoosiers
The arts offer meaningful, enjoyable experiences and valuable benefits to employees and their families.
When businesses partner with the arts they get more inspired and engaged employees. Partnering with the arts helps recruit and retain talent.
- 69% of Americans believe the arts “lift me up beyond everyday experiences. - Americans Speak Out About the Arts 2018
- 75% of large companies ($25b+) provide free/discounted tickets, offer release time for volunteering, and provide grants to arts organizations where employees volunteer. - Business Contributions to the Arts: 2018 Edition
- 92% of companies offer a matching gift program, and 55% of companies match employee gifts to any organization of the employee's choosing. - Giving in Numbers 2018
Arts Trust Project Highlight
Parkview Huntington Family YMCA
The Parkview Huntington Family YMCA School of the Arts delivers classes in various mediums to Huntington County residents. Their year-round classes and productions feature eight different types of dance, piano, guitar, violin, viola,
cello, fiddle, and singing, all of which are displayed at regularly scheduled community productions. Students are taught by hired teaching artists, which both supports the gig economy of artists and gives students access to instruments and artists they otherwise wouldn’t.
To honor contributions to the Arts Trust endowment, we are pleased to share that as of July 1, 2020, purchasing a Celebrate the Arts license plate not only contributes to an established long-term trust, but also, along with funds from the Indiana Arts Commission’s appropriation from the Indiana General Assembly, supports Arts Project Support grants across the state. Each year, one Arts Project Support grant from every county with a project will hold the unique honor of being an Arts Trust License Plate Project
View more Arts Trust Projects.
Purchase an Arts Trust Plate.
Stories you may have missed
A new statue commemorates Logansport's immigrant history.
Northeast Indiana artist Sarah Thompson (Sarahmics) is not a production potter, but an artist. She feels every piece she creates is a work of art (even a lowly spoon rest or coffee mug) and therefore, deserves the utmost care and attention to detail.
Jacob Drummer (Muncie, IN) in a choreographer and teacher who brings people together using dance.
The art-trepreneurs at 1336 are recycling old campaign signs to empower neighborhood artists.
Jiffy Lube of Indiana received the Arts and Business Partnership Award from Americans for the Arts.
First members of Snowed-In Residency at Kirkland Art Center announced.
The Hedge is offering craft kits for adults and kids.
Clint Breeze says the most important thing for artists to focus on right now is their purpose.
Things to keep up-to-date on
- Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants are one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies. The application is open now through January 6, 2021 for emergency treatment between May 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021.
- Google is offering free training, tools, and resources to help you grow your skills, career, or business
- A group of arts professionals compiled existing advice and their personal experience to share their four biggest tips for independent contractors navigating COVID-19.
- A Handbook for Artists Working in Community was developed by Springboard for the Arts
- Be in-the-know on the current state of the pandemic.
- Visit the Artist Services Hub to find resources
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The Indiana Arts Commission is dedicated to the vision of the arts everywhere, every day, for everyone in Indiana.
The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) is an agency of State Government funded by the Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agenc