We understand that CCP stands together with other art organizations as we face similar challenges at this time. Our hearts go out to our fellow print studios, galleries, and workshops – and across disciplines to performance art, music, and writing. We recognize that our spaces wouldn’t be the vibrant and welcoming creative homes that they are without the artists that frequent them and know that artists are experiencing similar financial hardships in this uncertain moment, trying to find a way to stay standing in an unbalanced world.
We would like to pass along resources for grants that have come across our desks specifically to help artists who are having difficulties during this strange time in our lives. We are all in this together!
Local to our area, the Connecticut Office of the Arts announced two new grant programs, the Connecticut Artist Relief Grant Program and the Connecticut Artists Respond Program: