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Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) News provides information about happenings at our organization and throughout the artist residency field. This includes announcements about upcoming ACA events, Advocacy Alerts that spotlight policy issues, funding opportunities for artists and arts organizations, and press releases.

In addition to this News page, ACA regularly sends newsletters that feature important news and happenings that are relevant to artists, artist residency staff and other arts administrators.

ADVOCACY ALERT | Urge U.S. Congress to Expand COVID-19 Relief for the Arts Sector

July 16, 2020

Reach out to your members of Congress today to share stories from your organization that demonstrate the impact of COVID-19 on nonprofit administrators, freelancers, artists, and community members in your region.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces CARES Act Grantees

July 7, 2020

Earlier this week, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced 846 nonprofit arts organizations that have been recommended for grants through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

FIELD SURVEY | Mapping a Path to Reopening

July 7, 2020

The Alliance of Artists Communities (AAC) is gathering information from residency programs to help all stakeholders understand the impact of Covid-19 related closures.

FIELD NOTES | Language Matters

June 26, 2020

“There is not a place in North, South, or Central America that is not Indigenous land.” —Sharon Day, 2019 AAC Conference, St. Paul, MN “The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.” ―Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

RELIEF FUNDING | Paycheck Protection Program Forgiveness

June 23, 2020

Last week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a streamlined Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness application and announced several new guidelines.

FIELD NOTES | This is not a moment.

June 13, 2020

“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” ―Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

FIELD NOTES | Unbreakable Solidarity

May 29, 2020

Lisa Funderburke Hoffman, Soyini Guyton, Seitu Jones and Nicole Caruth in St. Paul, MN, fall of 2019

"If you desire a more just world, it’s time you muster the courage to talk with people who are professionally, ideologically, and politically different from you." - LFH

COVID-19 Arts Preparedness + Response Resource List

May 16, 2020

We have expanded our COVID-19 Residency Preparedness + Response page where you can explore AAC field surveys, letters to the field, and a compilation of resources organized by topic.

New additions include:

A timely Dance Magazine article by Raja Feather Kelly who questions “Has Anyone Asked Artists What They Need?”
W.A.G.E.’s

FIELD NOTES | Asking Artists What They Need

May 15, 2020

“Before you get what you want, gotta give the people what they need.” — Public Enemy

FIELD NOTES | Beyond Place

May 8, 2020

“That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night—we can live. And we will.” — Ocean Vuong

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Stay up-to-date on the latest news in the artist residency field.

We have expanded our COVID-19 Residency Preparedness + Response page where you can explore AAC field surveys, letters to the field, and a compilation of resources organized by topic.

New additions include: