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2021
City Artist Corps Grants supported NYC-based working artists who were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 to help sustain their practice and engage the NYC public.
NYFA partnered with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre, to launch City Artist Corps Grants (CACG) in June 2021. City Artist Corps Grants was part of City Artist Corps, a $25 million recovery initiative designed to help artists who were both hard hit by the pandemic and who may have been left out of other local and federal funding opportunities.
City Artist Corps Grants supported NYC-based working artists who were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The program distributed one-time $5,000 grants to 3,000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs. Artists working in any discipline were eligible to apply. As part of the program, CACG recipients presented workshops, exhibitions, performances, installations, murals, and much more-free and open to all New Yorkers from July through October 2021.
City Artist Corps Grants were administered in partnership with re-grant and arts service organizations to support outreach, provide technical assistance for prospective applicants, and inform the grantee selection process in service of the city’s diverse cultural communities.
Partners included: Asian American Arts Alliance, A.R.T./New York, Black Public Media, Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx Documentary Center, Dance/NYC, Firelight Media, Flushing Town Hall, Indie Theater Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), MakerSpace NYC, New Music USA, Poets & Writers, and Staten Island Arts.