Important Updates about COVID-19  

The City of San Antonio continues to monitor and provide information on COVID-19. For updates, including City closures and changes to services, please go to: https://www.sanantonio.gov/Health/News/Alerts/CoronaVirus. Also, please note that Centro de Artes and Culture Commons galleries are closed in alignment with San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s Declaration of Public Health Emergency.

Corona Arts Relief Fund

The Department of Arts & Culture and Luminaria Artists Foundation have partnered to provide the Corona Arts Relief program, which provides support to individual artists in Bexar County during the national CORONA/COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more here: https://www.getcreativesanantonio.com/Grants
UPDATE: This program has already received an overwhelming response from artists applying for support. In order to match applicants with sufficient resources, Luminaria Artist Foundation is pausing the applications on Friday, April 3rd at 5 PM.  The goal is to restart the program with additional funding and we will provide updates when available.

Additional Resources for Artists & Arts Organizations 

Here’s some additional resources, which are updated regularly, to help out and provide guidance and advice in this uncertain time.

SAN ANTONIO RESOURCES

• San Antonio Community Resource Directory
• San Antonio Area Foundation
• Emergency resources list
• List by Blue Star Contemporary
• Unfiltered San Antonio

OTHER RESOURCES

• Texas' Economic Injury Disaster Loan Assistance
• Disaster Unemployment Assistance
• U.S. Small Business Administration Disaster Assistance in Response to the Coronavirus
• Alliance of Artists Communities
• Americans for the Arts
• Anonymous Was a Woman Emergency Grant
• ArtsReady
• CERF+
• COVID-19 Freelance Artists Resources
• Creative Capital
• Dance/USA
• Food and Beverage Industry Relief Fund by the James Beard Foundation
• Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
• Glasstire
• Grantmakers in the Arts
• Grammy.com Music Cares Relief Funds
• Grants for Artists and Photographers
• Loans Available for Nonprofits in the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136)
• Music Covid Relief
• National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness & Emergency Response
• National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures list of resources
• Poets & Writers resource list
• Assistance Information and Resources For Music Industry Professionals
• Texans for the Arts
• Texas Cultural Trust resource list
• Help Americans for the Arts assess the situation, take a 5 minute survey.
• Audience Matters Slack Group for Connecting with Audiences Online: https://join.slack.com/t/audience-matters/shared_invite/zt-cy3fij6o-aSHkQPZKe30qJ6NJ4U0Qbg

Promotion of Online Events

The Department of Arts & Culture is working to gather information about online events, workshops, initiatives, etc. that artists and arts organization are holding online in lieu of in-person programming. It is our goal to promote these events, so that arts patrons and the arts community can continue to support you through this difficult time. Click here to view available Online/Streaming events.

• Once your event is planned and ready to promote, please ensure you upload the event to our online event submission form: https://events.getcreativesanantonio.com/login/

• Once you have created your login in, enter your online event information and then select the Primary Category Type as "Online/Streaming" and then tag any other subsequent categories in the secondary category type field.

In addition:

• Click here for tips for driving revenue/donations via your online event and promotions.

• For a look at what some San Antonio artists and organizations have already planned, check out this article.