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Emergency Relief Funds for Traditional Artists & Culture Bearers

Folkloric dancing at Tucson Meet Yourself. Photo by Steven Meckler

COVID-19 has revealed deep vulnerabilities within many of those we serve. To provide direct support to these artists and culture/heritage practitioners, we’ve launched the Traditional Artist & Culture Bearer Emergency Relief Fund with support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and individual donors, including over $5000 from community members on Arizona Gives Day.

We are primarily funding traditional artists and culture bearers between 40 and 65+ years of age, who are living in remote or historically marginalized neighborhoods in Arizona. Via phone surveys we’ve conducted, we have heard such stories as:

“We are currently two months behind on our mortgage … We also don’t have internet access at home, I have to take the girls to a friends house to be able to do school work, even before the pandemic internet access seemed like a luxury in our household, now our daughters aren’t able to be connected to the outside world because we don’t have internet access, it’s devastating.”

“I need immediate assistance with money for my utility bills, for wood, also need basic necessitates like grocery items and paper products (tissue, toilet paper)”

“No income, limited access to resources. No access to gloves, face masks other disinfectant items.”

We are making $500 emergency relief awards traditional artists & culture bearers in Arizona.
 
APPLY for funds here. SFA will make awards of $500 to artists in need of support who have not already received funds from SFA or the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
 
DONATE to this fund here. We thank you!
 
Other resources that may be of use to artists, culture bearers, small business owners and others is here.

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The Southwest Folklife Alliance is an affiliate non-profit organization of the University of Arizona, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. We are the designated Folk Arts Partner of the Arizona Commission on the Arts with the support of the National Endowment of the Arts.

Our Mission: We build more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage, and diversity rooted in the Greater Southwest and U.S. Mexico Border Corridor. Nationally, we amplify models and methods of meaningful cultural work that center traditional knowledge, social equity, and collaboration.

Folklife: Everyday things people make, say, or do with shared meaning in small groups.

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