$2M+ from major arts foundations to help nonprofits and artists recover after Hurricane Sandy

Image source: MTAPhotos on Flickr – Art is everywhere, even in the subway stations in the Rockaways

We’ve learned from ArtPractical that artists and nonprofit arts organizations seriously damaged by Hurricane Sandy are about to get some help. Three foundations – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Lambent Foundation – are putting together a fund, which will start with $2 million from the Andy Warhol Foundation. The Robert Rauschenberg and Lambent Foundations will augment that number.

Half of the money will go to affected visual arts organizations and half will go to individual artists.

More details:

“The Warhol Foundation and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation will both address non-profit organizations in need through an emergency fund  with The Andy Warhol Foundation making grants to visual arts organizations and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation making grants to other cultural organizations. All three foundations will pool their assets to assist individual artists through the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). In administering this re-granting program, NYFA will work closely with its community network, local arts contacts and other organizations in the affected tri-state region.”

NYFA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, has expanded beyond New York to also consider artists in Connecticut and New Jersey working in any discipline.

Queens has pockets of artists, so this will be of use to artists in the borough, especially in the neighborhoods of Ridgewood and LIC, as well as the Rockaways.

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