National Endowment for the Arts: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced it has recommended American Rescue Plan (ARP) awards totaling $57,750,000 to 567 arts organizations to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. The organizations may use this funding to save jobs, and to fund operations and facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation.
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This is such a huge relief. Of course, since I am not privy to the exact details of how these grants will be dispersed and subsequently used, I can not tell you exactly how far this money will stretch but the fact that it is being awarded in the first place is a huge step in the right direction. As we have been seeing, larger productions or theaters have been able to counter the resurgence of Covid 19 with lowered ticket prices but for huge swaths of the theater community in places not as well funded this is not an option. Arts in general are what people have historically turned to during times of uncertainty and economic fear. FDR put in place ways of helping out theaters during the Great Depression as part of his work programs because he knew that. The arts are the pumping hearts of any economic system and these grants will hopefully work as the defibrillators to get these theaters pumping again.
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