Inspiration Leads to Transformation Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as a Personal Desire

Regent Atlantic Neighborhood Nonprofits Group Symposium. Created for Regent Atlantic Neighborhood Nonprofits Group Symposium “September 20, 2018.”
What Are the Paradigm Shifts Necessary for the Arts Sector to Nurture More Sustainable THRIVING Institutions of Color?

Yancey Consulting. “January 2018.”
So Far Past the Brink: COVID-19 and the Ongoing Conditions that keep Creative
Workers in Free Fall

Produced by Americans for the Arts, this report provides a quantitative analysis of aggregated results from a national online survey of just over 33,000 artists and creative workers from April through November 2020. It examines five sector-wide socioeconomic inequities exacerbated and exposed by the pandemic: economic insecurity, job insecurity, exploitative working conditions, inequities in the […]
WE ARE BOUND: Report on Qualitative Analysis of Artist Relief Application Narratives (Cycles 1-9)

Produced by Collaborative Consulting Group (CCG), this report set out to capture the story of artists and creatives who sought funding from the Artist Relief grant initiative. CCG managed and analyzed a representative sample of more than 1,300 Artist Relief grant applicant narratives. They sifted the data through comparative analysis to identify prominent threads within, […]
WE ARE BOUND: RECOMMENDATIONS

As a population, independent artists were devastated by COVID 2020. In the United States, the pandemic laid bare the minuscule and brittle securities that artists, makers, gig workers, freelancers, and other self-employed creators had in the form of financial reserves and social safety nets. As a companion piece to the We Are Bound: Excavating the […]
WE ARE BOUND: Excavating the Story of Artist Relief 2020

In 2020, nearly 4,000 artists in dire financial straits received $5,000 each in relief grants from a coalition of seven U.S. funders. These funders came together and launched a $21 million relief fund for artists during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.