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NYC Arts in Education Roundtable

The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation Awards the Roundtable Funding to Support Third Cycle of the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Kimberly Olsen, kolsen@nycaieroundtable.org

New York, NY – The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable was recently awarded $15,000 by The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation to support the third cycle of the Roundtable’s Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund. With their generous support, the Roundtable will achieve its goal of awarding over $1,000,000 in critical assistance to New York City’s arts education community, which has been among the hardest hit by the pandemic. 

This cycle of the relief fund will distribute $335,000 in one-time, unrestricted grants of $1,000 to teaching artists and arts education administrators who are facing serious financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis.

“On behalf of the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable and the teaching artists and arts education administrators whom we serve, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for the support from our partners at The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation,” said Kimberly Olsen, Executive Director. “With this gift, the Roundtable fully realizes a commitment to supporting and sustaining our arts education community. We can see the light at the end of this dark tunnel, but the work to support arts workers — and their students — must continue.”

“The Kornfeld Foundation has long supported arts education in New York City. We are proud to join with our philanthropic colleagues, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Arts in Education Roundtable to help fund this vital program for our community of teaching artists,” said Katy Clark, Executive Director of The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation.

The first two cycles of the Roundtable’s Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund provided $673,500 in support to 677 arts-in-education professionals. These unrestricted cash grants are intended to support arts educators with lost wages and earnings; medical and healthcare expenses; childcare and eldercare; rent and mortgage payments; food, utilities, and other living expenses. 

Priority in grant selection will be given to applicants from communities most impacted by COVID-19 including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, immunosuppressed, low-income, non-gender conforming, genderqueer, and transgender-identifying practitioners, and practitioners with disabilities. In support of the Roundtable’s work to dismantle white supremacy within our organizations, schools, and communities, the relief fund will grant at least $100,000 to Black arts education practitioners. 

The third cycle of this relief fund is made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with additional support from The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation and will award $335,000 to 335 teaching artists and arts education practitioners. Applications opened Monday, March 7 at 12pm ET to Monday, March 21 at 11:59pm ET. Both teaching artists and arts education administrators are eligible to apply. For more information on the relief fund and how to apply, please visit our website.

The Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund was originally made possible by the generous support of the New York Community Trust, including funding from the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, and the Booth Ferris Foundation. The second cycle of this relief fund was made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with additional support from The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. 

About the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable

The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable improves, advances, and advocates for arts education in New York City. NYCAIER is a community of cultural organizations and educators that shares resources, provides professional development, and advocates for the needs of our constituents and the communities they serve. Founded in 1992, NYCAIER builds our efforts around the value that arts education is a right for all NYC students. NYCAIER produces a major annual arts in education conference, Face to Face; monthly professional development programs;  in addition to ongoing advocacy and communications efforts for cultural organizations and teaching artists in every discipline. For more information please visit: www.nycaieroundtable.org.

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