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Dear Friends,
WPA recognizes the profound economic and artistic toll that the COVID-19 virus is taking on visual artists in our region. We want our supporters and our artist friends to know: we are here for you!
WPA has launched a recovery fund for artists impacted by the COVID-19 crisis with $60,000 in seed funding from a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Wherewithal Recovery Grants are available to professional visual artists, as well as moving-image/performance/sound artists with a history of presenting or performing in visual arts contexts (galleries, museums, etc.), living inside the DC-area Beltway. The $1,000 grants are intended to help offset lost income from cancelled exhibitions, performances, or lectures, and from canceled or furloughed employment.
For questions about Wherewithal Recovery Grants, please contact Nathalie von Veh at nvonveh@wpadc.org
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
WPA welcomes donations to the Wherewithal Recovery Fund. Your contribution will be 100% tax-deductible, and will help us reach more DC-area artists who are directly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Donate here today! Additionally, WPA will soon announce the details of a collaboration this June with the online platform Artsy. HIGH FREQUENCY: a Benefit Auction to Support WPA and Artists will feature an amazing selection of artwork by artists from the DC-area and beyond. Artwork purchases will not only provide crucial operating support for WPA, 50% of the sale proceeds will also go directly to the artists--at a time when they need it more than ever! Stay tuned.
For questions about donating to the Wherewithal Recovery Fund or about the High Frequency auction, please contact Alexa Kaye, WPA's Individual Giving and Development Director, at (617) 710-3829 or akaye@wpadc.org.
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COVID-19 VISUAL ARTIST IMPACT SURVEY
Thank you to the over 200 artists from across the country who have completed WPA's COVID-19 Visual Artist Impact Survey. If you are an artist and haven't completed the survey yet, submissions are ongoing. The goal of this survey is to collect data and anecdotes to unlock more emergency funding, and to document this historic moment.
Special thanks to the artists who have completed the survey to date and to the many organizations that have circulated it, among them: A.I.R., New York, NY; Arlington Arts, Arlington, VA; Asian American Arts Alliance (A4), New York, NY; Baltimore Office of Promotion in the Arts, Baltimore, MD; Black Artists of DC; BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD; CulturalDC, Washington, DC; EastCityArts, Washington, DC; GRIT Fund, Baltimore, MD; Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC; Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; IA&A Hilyer, Washington, DC; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Maine College of Art, Portland, ME; MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD; Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK; Prince George's Arts & Humanities Council, MD; Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC; Space538, Portland, ME; Stable Arts, Washington, DC; Transformer, Washington, DC; Virginia Commission for the Arts, Richmond, VA; W.A.G.E., New York, NY; Washington Sculptors Group, Washington, DC.
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