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Calling All Artists: Announcing Details for City Artists Corps!

Today, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and its partners announced details for how City Artist Corps will support local artists while providing opportunities for New Yorkers to engage with cultural programming starting this summer. Announced by Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Gonzalo Casals in May, this historic $25 million investment in artists by the city will contribute to NYC's recovery while providing critical relief for the city's artist community.
Visit this link for more information about City Artist Corps: https://nyc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a6b67798f75e24a544b6a8e7&...
Mayor de Blasio’s announcement for City Artist Corps can be found at this link: https://nyc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a6b67798f75e24a544b6a8e7&...
City Artist Corps will support artists through the following program partners:
City Artist Corps Grants: will support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. With New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) as lead partner working with more than a dozen re-grant and art services organizations, the program will distribute one-time $5,000 grants to more than 3,000 artists to help them sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City's five boroughs this summer and fall, beginning in July. Artists working in any discipline are eligible to apply. Applications for the first cycle of funding open Tuesday, June 8; applications for additional cycles will come online later this summer.
More information is available on NYFA’s website: https://nyc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a6b67798f75e24a544b6a8e7&...
City Canvas: The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the nonprofit ArtBridge will commission 60 artists to install temporary public murals and other artwork on sidewalk sheds and construction fencing throughout the city’s public housing system. This program will build on ArtBridge's Bridging the Divide program, which consists of artist fellowships at NYCHA developments in which artists design temporary public artworks that reflect the lives, histories, and aspirations of NYCHA residents. Applications are due June 28.
Learn more and access the application at this link: https://artbridge.submittable.com/submit/8027db7f-4e5e-4221-b2fa-ed0697f...
Summer Rising Mural and Performing Arts Partnerships: The Department of Education, in partnership with local school leadership, will work with more than 400 artists at over 200 schools to engage Summer Rising students in collaborative mural making and performing arts activities that enrich summer programming.
Learn more about Summer Rising by visiting this link: https://nyc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a6b67798f75e24a544b6a8e7&...
Additional City Artist Corps initiatives will be announced in the coming months. Details will be made available on nyc.gov/cityartistcorps and through the Cultural Affairs newsletter. Sign up at this link to receive our newsletter directly: https://nyc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a6b67798f75e24a544b6a8e7&...

Applications are Open for NYC Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) Program

Cultural Affairs has launched the open call for artists for the 2021-22 cycle of the NYC Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program. Based on the idea that artists are creative problem-solvers, the program embeds artists in City agencies to propose and implement solutions to pressing civic challenges. Selected artists will receive $40,000 for the residency, and artists working in all media and disciplines are welcome to apply. The following City agencies are each seeking to host a PAIR artist for the 2021-22 cycle:
NYC Department of Sanitation: which is seeking to work with an artist who will bring dignity, respect, and appreciation to the agency's critical—but often invisible—workforce that makes life in New York City possible.
NYC Department of Records and Information Services: where the artist will be invited to imagine new ways to access, present, and use a vast store of newly-digitized video content from the 1970's and 80's that captured pivotal events of the era.
NYC Department of Design and Construction: which proposes to utilize an artist residency to transform a construction site into a platform for exploring, imagining, creating, and enacting connections between neighbors and the public works that impact a neighborhood.
Visit nyculture.submittable.com to learn more about each of these unique opportunities and to apply; the deadline to apply is 11:59 PM on Sunday, June 27, 2021.
Each PAIR residency lasts a minimum of one year, and selected artists will have demonstrated experience in socially engaged art or collaborative art practice addressing social and political issues relevant to the host agency. If you have questions after reading the open call and guidelines, you can review the PAIR FAQs or send an email to PAIR@culture.nyc.gov. Learn more about current and past PAIR placements on the Cultural Affairs website.
PAIR FAQs: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dcla/downloads/pdf/PAIR-Call-for-Artists-FAQ...
Cultural Affairs website: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/publicart/pair.page

HueArts NYC is a New Platform Amplifying POC Organizations
HueArts NYC - a new collaboration from Museum Hue, The Laundromat Project, and Hester Street - will be a comprehensive online platform for New York City arts entities created by and centering Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color (POC). Through a user-friendly map, searchable online directory, and field report, the platform will aggregate information on arts entities, amplify impact, and increase support for these performing and presenting arts entities. HueArts NYC will be released in December 2021.

"New York's cultural organizations of color are essential to the communities they serve, and to our city's cultural vitality as a whole. With the launch of HueArts NYC, we're excited to support a project that will foster a deeper understanding of these organizations, and of what they need to thrive and grow." - Cultural Affairs Commissioner Gonzalo Casals
Visit huearts.nyc to learn more about the project and nominate POC entities for inclusion.
More information about HueArts NYC available on their website: https://www.museumhue.com/hueartsnyc
Read more about HueArts NYC in Broadway World at this link: https://nyc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a6b67798f75e24a544b6a8e7&...
More information about Museum Hue: https://www.museumhue.com/
More information about The Laundromats Project: https://www.laundromatproject.org/
More information about Hester Street: https://hesterstreet.org/
Emergency Relief Fund Provides 340 Arts Educators with Unrestricted Grants
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable (NYCAIER) recently awarded 340 arts education professionals financially hard-hit by COVID-19 with unrestricted grants of $1,000 from the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund. Cultural Affairs' spring 2020 survey on the impact of COVID-19 found that arts educators were disproportionately affected by layoffs and furloughs caused by the pandemic. As a result, Cultural Affairs partnered with NYCAIER to invest in a second round of their relief grants.
Read more about the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund here: https://nycaieroundtable.org/2021/05/24/with-major-support-from-the-nyc-...
NYC Arts in Education Roundtable website: https://nycaieroundtable.org/
Spring 2020 survey on the impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofit Arts and Culture in NYC: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dcla/downloads/pdf/DCLA-AFTA-Covid-Impact-Re...