Americans for the Arts is offering a free two-part webinar series to cover the new array of arts funding opportunities on Friday January 15 and 22 from 2-3:30 pm. Both Zoom sessions are full, but will be broadcast on the Arts Action Fund Facebook Page. Sessions will be available for on-demand viewing.
The two webinars will each feature unique content and will include expert speakers including attorney Sarah Mercer of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck; Brigadier General Nolen Bivens (U.S. Army Ret.), Interim President and CEO of Americans for the Arts; Narric Rome, the VP of Government Affairs and Arts Education at Americans for the Arts; and senior representatives of the Small Business Administration. The following topics will be covered:
- New SBA Guidelines opening a new round of Paycheck Protection Program Forgivable Loan Applications, Forgiveness, Tax Implications, and no longer need to deduct EIDL Advances! ($147.5 billion)
- New SBA Guideline creating a second draw of PPP loans to current borrowers ($137 billion)
- New EIDL Loan and Advances – already open to apply now ($20 billion)
- New Shuttered Live Venue Operators and Talent Representatives available to nonprofit, for-profit and government-owned or operated performing arts venues and museums ($15 billion)
- New Pandemic Unemployment Assistance for gig workers, W2 employees and now “mixed earners”
- New IRS Stimulus Checks of $600 per taxpayer (phasing incrementally out after $75,000 adjusted gross income) and $600 for each of the tax filer’s dependent children 17 years old and younger)
- New expanded and extended charitable tax deductions for non-itemizers up to $300 per tax filer, instead of $300 per tax return. (ie- married, joint filers can deduct up to $600 now)
- New retroactive and upcoming NEA and NEH grants that can be awarded for general operating support
- New funding for creative arts therapies within the U.S. Department of Defense
You can follow up later to ask your questions during weekly Zoom Office Hours with Nina throughout 2021 on Fridays at 11:00 a.m. ET.
You may view these sessions live on the Arts Action Fund Facebook Page.
The archive recordings will be available on the Arts Action Fund Facebook Page immediately following the live sessions.
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance is presenting our annual Arts Business Academy for emerging creative businesses. This certificate course will provide artists, musicians, writers, designers and other creatives with the skillsets and confidence to launch an arts business career.
Local arts professionals and business leaders provide training on topics including defining your goal as an artist, pricing your services, marketing, media and banking.
The Arts Alliance is again collaborating with St. Petersburg College’s WorkForce Institute. In addition to the sessions, participants will have access to SPC’s supplemental workforce training courses. These non-credit courses will help participants develop their professional skillsets, including effective communication, writing skills and essentials of marketing.
“The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance is committed to professional arts education to support the growing numbers of artist entrepreneurs who drive our creative economy,” SPAA Associate Director Tracy Kennard explains. “And thanks to our Arts Business Resource Center supporters, we are thrilled to offer scholarships so that the academy remains financially accessible to all.”
The cost for the series is $199 per person including five highly interactive Zoom sessions plus three online classes. Limited full scholarships are available. Email tracy@stpeteartsalliance.org for a scholarship application.
Sessions will be held on Wednesday afternoons beginning February 3 from 1-2:30 p.m. on Zoom.
The Arts Academy is a program of SPAA’s Arts Resource Center, made possible with support from the Bank of America Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, the Robert and Toni Bader Foundation, the TD Charitable Foundation and the St. Pete Greenhouse – all helping to create entrepreneurial opportunities and financial stability for our creative community.
For more information and to register, please visit the St Pete College website.
This year, ArtPlace America culminates a decade of work as part of an extraordinary community of artists, community developers, culture bearers, designers, government officials, philanthropists and researchers who have come together from rural, suburban, Tribal and urban communities across the United States.
To help celebrate all we have done collectively, ArtPlace will host a free virtual summit the week of October 26-30. Each day that week, we will offer a wide variety of programming online with over 50 sessions informed by the past, grounded in the present – and planning for the future of our communities.
Topics include
- The Arts and Public Health
- Storytelling to Inspire Change
- Placemaking on the Front Lines of Political Conflict
- Small Business as an Agent of Transformation
- Artists Helping Elders Face Covid-19 Fears
- The Artist as First Responder to a Climate Crisis
- Arts, Culture and Food
- New Spaces to Heal Trauma
- Applying Creative Placemaking to Covid-19
- Crisis Resiliency for Artists
While the summit is free to attend, registration is required. By registering, you’ll have access to as much or as little of the summit as you like and with our new virtual space there’s no need to sign up for individual sessions in advance.
To register visit ArtPlaceSummit.org
Find a detailed event schedule here
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