UNDATED -Beachfront Dance School in Gary has received a $15,000 dollar grant. The organization is one of an additional sixty-one Midwestern arts and culture organizations that received COVID-19 relief grants Tuesday from Arts Midwest. The funds come from the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund.
The goal of the fund is to invest in historically under-resourced arts and culture organizations across the United States as they work to weather the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with these priorities, thirty-two of the funded organizations are based in rural areas, twenty-five are led by and serving people of color, and five are led by and serving Native and Indigenous communities.
The sixty-one selected organizations will each receive between $10,000 - $50,000 as a one-time investment. Recipients may direct United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund grants to their most pressing needs and opportunities.
Americans for the Arts estimates current losses for the creative sector are over $14.5 billion dollars due to impact from COVID-19. These losses exacerbate deep, existing inequities present nationwide. Historically under-resourced communities and organizations now face an additional lack of access to critical support, investment, and capitalization to weather the pandemic, putting their work acutely at risk.
The United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund began in June 2020.
