Essentials: Getting Your Work Seen
Positioning Artists for Resiliency during COVID-19: Updates from the Field
As part of Fresh Arts storytelling and resource sharing initiative to amplify the work that everyone is doing to support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, we will be interviewing key partners from the field who are working behind the scenes to support Houston’s arts community.
4/16/20: Disaster Resilience for Artists: Q&A Session with Houston Arts Alliance
Conversation with Lauren Hainley & Jimmy Castillo, Houston Arts Alliance; moderated by Reyes Ramirez, Fresh Arts.
In light of the Texas Workforce Commission’s recent implementation of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Fresh Arts and Houston Arts Alliance hosted a Facebook Live Q&A session on Thursday, April 16 with HAA’s Disaster Services Program Manager, Lauren Hainley, for clarification on recent changes to Unemployment laws and the CARES Act with a focus on individual artist eligibility, plus an overview of relief fund opportunities and actions artists should be taking now as they wait for relief.
Jimmy Castillo, Director of HAA Civic Art + Design, also joined to talk about current and upcoming public art opportunities for artists through the City of Houston’s Civic Art Program and answered some frequently asked questions about HAA’s public art calls and RFQ’s.
This video was hosted in direct partnership with Houston Arts Alliance.
Looking for more COVID-19 resources?
https://ready.haatx.com/covid-19
4/1/20: Updates from the Field with Dance Source Houston and Houston Arts Alliance
Conversation with Mollie Miller, DanceSource Houston, and Lauren Hainley & Deidre Thomas, Houston Arts Alliance and moderated by Reyes Ramirez, Fresh Arts.
On April 1, 2020 we hosted a Facebook Live Q&A conversation with Dance Source Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance Grants Department and Disaster Services team to hear how they are directly responding to the needs of the arts community. We also discussed the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and shared how artists can use 211 to access resources for basic needs and social services.
Houston Arts Alliance: https://ready.haatx.com/
Dance Source Houston: https://dancesourcehouston.org/covid-19-resources/
In response to the COVID 19 pandemic and its impact on our creative community, Fresh Arts has launched a virtual workshop and conversation series as part of a storytelling and resource sharing initiative to amplify access to the information artists need most.
Have resources to share, stories to tell, artists you’d like to see featured, or have topics you’d like covered?
