With schools, art centers, galleries, theaters, and venues closed, and tours canceled many artists are struggling in this moment with day to day expenses. As a community of veteran artists we work to support one another and share resources. With that in mind we wanted to share a number of resources that are now available to provide relief and resources to artists.

Below is an initial list of resources compiled from a number of sources. Please share, apply, and encourage others to do the same.

If you are aware of other resources please send information and links to the Veteran Movement <veteran.art.movement@gmail.com>.



Emergency Grants for Artists

3Arts - Arts for Illinois Relief Fund for Artists

4Culture - Cultural Relief Fund

Actors Fund – Emergency Financial Assistance

Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grants – Interim Financial Assistance to Qualified Painters, Printmakers and Sculptors

American Guild of Musical Artists – Relief Fund

American Society of Journalists and Authors – Writers Emergency Assistance Fund

Anonymous Was A Woman & New York Foundation for the Arts - Emergency relief grant program 

Artly World - Artist Relief Project

Artist Relief

Artist Relief Tree

Artists’ Charitable Fund for Medical Expenses

Artists’ Fellowship – Emergency Aid to Professional Visual Artists

Arts Administrators of Color Network - Relief Fund

Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund

Authors League Fund

The Blues Foundation – COVID-19 Blues Musician Emergency Relief Fund

Book Industry Charitable Foundation – Assistance to Booksellers and Comic Retailers

Boston - Relief Fund

Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation – Idea Awards COVID-19 Response Grant

Center for Cultural Innovation- SF Arts and Artists Relief Fund

CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund) 

ConvertKit – The Creator Fund

Dramatists Guild Foundation – Emergency Grants

Equal Sound – Corona Relief Fund for Musicians

Format – The Photography Fund

For the People Artists Collective – Artists of Color Emergency Grants

Foundation for Contemporary Arts – COVID-19 Relief Fund

Freelance Co-op – Freelancer COVID-19 Emergency Fund

Greater Columbus Arts Council (Columbus, OH) - Relief Grant

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (Pennsylvania) - Relief Fund

Gospel Music Trust Fund

Haven Foundation

Jazz Foundation of America – Musicians’ Emergency Fund

Kickstarter – COVID-19 Artist Resources

Kincade Family Foundation – Emergency Grant for Curators

Max's Kansas City Project - Emergency Grant for New York Artists

Michigan Music Alliance’s Michigan - Artist Relief Fund 

Musicians Foundation – COVID-19 Emergency Relief Aid Grant Program

MusiCares - Relief Fund

NC Artist Fund - Relief Fund

National Coalition for Arts' Preparedness & Emergency Response (NCAPER)

New Music USA – New Music Solidarity Fund

New York Foundation for the Arts – Rauschenberg Emergency Grants

Oolite Arts (Miami, FL) - Relief Fund 

Pinetop Perkins Foundation – Pinetop Assistance League (PAL) for Elder Musicians

PEN America – Writers’ Emergency Fund

The Photographer Fund

Portland Area Artist Emergency - Relief Fund

Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund

Rauschenberg - Medical Emergency Grant

The Recording Academy MusiCares – COVID-19 Relief Fund

The Soze Foundation – Artist + Activist Relief Fund

Sustainable Arts Foundation

Spokane Arts - Relief Fund

Sweet Relief – COVID-19 Fund for Musicians and Music Workers

Theatre Bay Area - Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund

Twenty Summer – Art Interrupted Emergency Arts Fund

UNTITLED, ART  Emergency Fund