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COVID relief funds for working artists in NCW who have lost wages due to the pandemic.

December 14, 2020

Thanks to Icicle Fund, Methow Arts and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts get to provide 72 working artists across four NCW counties* with critical funding during a very difficult year of COVID-19. And importantly they will be able to start getting funds into artists’ hands in time for this Holiday Season!

Identified by the Icicle Fund’s Art & History Committee as a vital need, the goal of the grants is to help North Central WA artists who have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Methow Arts and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts were asked to design a plan that would reach artists in need and manage the funds, award grants and work with leaders in the Arts to disseminate the information and serve on grant panels. After submitting a plan and application to the Icicle Fund Board of Directors approved the funds to be launched in December of 2020 into the coming year. 

Methow Arts Alliance will review and award $36,000 in artist grants in both Okanogan County and Douglas County and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts will award the same amount for artist grants in Chelan and Grant Counties. 72 artists who lost business income due to closures and restrictions caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic will be awarded grants of $1,000 each. Artists from these counties should apply to the organization who is managing the county in which they reside.  

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