Getty Foundation awards 400 artists and 80 arts organizations $2.7 million in COVID-19 relief grants

2020-06-18T12:59:00-04:00

400 artists and 80 arts organizations have received $2.7 million in total grants as part of a broad-based COVID-19 relief effort for the visual arts in the Los Angeles region, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the California Community Foundation announced this week.

"The arts are a source of expression, resistance, and healing,” said Joan Weinstein, director of the Getty Foundation in a statement. "But our creative artists and arts organizations, who do so much to advocate for social change, will not survive this pandemic and its economic fallout if we don’t take action now to support them."

Organizations that received aid include the A+D Architecture + Design Museum; the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los

Angeles; Inner City Arts; LAXART; the Los Angeles Conservancy; the Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation; and the Women's Center for Creative Work, among others

Many artists and arts organizations have struggled due to the economic impact of COVID-19. The more than $2 million in eme...

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Getty Foundation awards 400 artists and 80 arts organizations $2.7 million in COVID-19 relief grants