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Kate Walter
My Life Has Been Cancelled

Kate Walter Reading Her Work on March 4, 2020 photo: @Maile Studios

I live in Westbeth Artists Housing, in Greenwich Village, and had a successful reading of my novel in progress in the community room on March 4. About 50 people attended.

Everyone liked the chapter I read and told me I had to finish the book. We chatted and drank champagne. Hard to believe that wonderful evening was only two weeks ago. All events in my building are now postponed, including the flea market and a big exhibit in the gallery.

Along with my neighbors at Westbeth, we survived 9/11, watching the horror from our rooftop. We survived Hurricane Sandy, which flooded our basement. But those disasters brought us together. The virus is isolating us. We got a memo from management not to hang out in the lobby.

All of this is depressing. I feel like I need an extra therapy session. But the virus has helped me to put things in perspective…

Read the complete article published online at AARP Magazine HERE

Barbara Hammer
Online screening

photo: Eric McNatt for 2017 Queer | Art Community Portrait Project

A selection of films by the legendary filmmaker Barbara Hammer is being given a free online screening by Company Gallery as part of the “In Company With” series.

Access screening here:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/incompanywith

A suggested donation to Queer | Art, which helps organize the. Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Film Grant is encouraged.

The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support to moving-image art made by lesbians. The grant is supported directly by funds provided by Hammer and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges.

List of Funding and Grants for Artists

We will update the list as more information becomes available.

Cultured Magazine list of grants and resources from a variety of sources.
https://www.culturedmag.com/emergency-grants-covid19/

Creative Capital list of grants available from a variety of sources.
https://creative-capital.org/2020/03/13/list-of-arts-resources-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation – (USA)
https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/individual-support-grant-1/

American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) Relief Fund– (USA)
https://agmarelief.org/

Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund – (USA)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv4AazvLFVUNAgXoxqBqfZ7jJVkrMroa-CET6Vt6XygR-CaQ/formResponse

CERF+ – (USA)
https://cerfplus.org/get-relief/apply-for-help/

Dramatists Guild Foundation – (USA
https://dgf.org/programs/grants/grants-for-writers/

Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund – (USA)
https://equalsound.org/musicians-corona-relief-fund-application/

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants – (USA)
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants

Jazz Foundation of America – (USA)
http://www.jazzfoundation.org/what-we-do/housing-and-emergency-assistance

Joan Mitchell Foundation – (USA)
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/emergency

MusiCares – (USA)
https://www.grammy.com/musicares

PEN America Writers Emergency Fund – (USA)
https://pen.org/writers-emergency-fund/

Pollock-Krasner Foundation – (USA)
http://pkf.org/our-grants/#pollock-krasner-foundation-grant

Rauschenberg Emergency Grants – (USA)
https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Rauschenberg-Emergency-Grants

Sweet Relief COVID-19 Fund – (USA)
https://www.sweetrelief.org/covid-19-fund.html

The Actors Fund – (USA)
http://actorsfund.org/services-and-programs/entertainment-assistance-program