Funding
Apply for #VACMAScotland funding
In place of usual VACMA awards this year fixed bursaries are available in recognition of the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on individual artists and makers.
Sector: Visual Arts
Stories / Good practices
The New Intimacy – Bodies, Objects and Spaces
Given the current circumstances by Covid-19, ArtEZ looks at what (physical) distance means for the desirable and necessary personal relationships, both in the private and public environment.
Stories / Good practices
Solidarity Sky
Solidarity Sky is a virtual community driven artwork with the aim of bringing people together through sharing personal images of the sky.
Events
In Touch: Online Exhibition
For Being Human 2020 the University of Glasgow is hosting a special online exhibition, co-developed and curated with the charity Deafblind Scotland, that responds creatively to the theme of touch post-COVID19.
Stories / Good practices
Heidelberg’s response to COVID-19
Heidelberg launched a solidarity programme “Solo Fantastico” for freelance artists.
Tools & Resources
The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Gallery Sector.
How artists have been affected by the Corona crisis
A report on how the pandemic has affected the artists and how the state’ support has reached out to the professional artists.
Events
CREATIVE CRISIS – A poster competition
An open call that is looking for crisis related designs made during or right after the Corona lock down.
Stories / Good practices
HARP Covid-19 Sprint
The HARP Covid-19 Sprint was a time-limited, experimental innovation project, based in Wales. The aim was to inspire and support arts and health professionals to develop new creative activities that could help to mitigate some of the
negative impacts of the pandemic on peoples’ health and wellbeing.
Organisations and initiatives
Together Alone | A Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes’ initiative
Through Together Alone open call, The Finnish Institutes’ network seeked artistic proposals related to the state of emergency, radical change, resilience, artistic practice in the future. At the same time the project acts as a documentation of one of the major social upheavals, gives the artists an opportunity to reflect it through their work, rethink ways of outreach and develop new practices.
Tools & Resources
Space for Learning: Covid guidance
Space for Learning: Covid Secure guidance for museums, galleries, heritage and performing arts sites
Stories / Good practices
Take a seat
With Theatres across Scotland sitting empty, festivals postponed and missing audiences – where do the theatre makers go from here?
Events
CulTourIsCapital – Open Call
From February 2020, COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on Europe’s economy, especially on the two
sectors the project is working on – tourism and creative industries. In reaction to such a situation, the TraCEs partnership decided to launch the first edition of the Cultour is Capital Fest, envisioned to become an annual event.
Tools & Resources
Online formats and the GLAM sector in the time of COVID-19
In June, Europeana brought together 60 cultural heritage professionals from across Europe for a special series of peer-to-peer workshops on ‘Digital transformation in the time of COVID-19’.
Tools & Resources
Art Reboot Webinars
Arts reboot, a webinar series covering 6 topics addressing the current challenges for arts organisations, providing practical tools that enable participants to shape the current scenario into opportunities for the future.
Tools & Resources
MICAS in Conversations Series
Art critic and curator Rajesh Punj interviews a selection of Maltese and international artists on the involving effect of space on their art practice against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications.
ART2CURE
An art show raising funds to support covid-19 related research at the University of Luxembourg is on at BiL.
Cooperation opportunities
Join the Artist
Join the Artist is the online platform that enables artists, practising any artistic discipline, to get in contact with their fans through DIY events, exhibitions and workshops, organized by the artists, on site or online.
Azkuna Zentroa launches ‘Babestu’, an artistic creation support programme
A call to foster creation aimed at local cultural agents and artists so that they can continue carrying out their processes and research affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Organisations and initiatives
Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK)
IGBK is a powerful lobby, representing the interests of visual artists. It has been the guiding idea of IGBK since its beginning to foster worldwide collaboration amongst visual artists in all directions.
Funding
Open call for artistic residencies #home edition in the 360° Gallery in Krakow, Poland
Photon Foundation has announced an open call for artistic residencies #home edition, a special edition because of COVID19 emergency to support artists in this hard time, during which artists will create audiovisual projects in their homes and studios to be presented in the 360° Gallery.
Stories / Good practices
Literary art Diary
Literary art Diary is a creative initiative that links cultural institutions with creatives to rethink culture as an open space without limits.
Advocacy Initiatives
Art in times of Coronavirus
A project called Žalike2030 was created as an artistic response to the current COVID-19-crisis, out of which an Art Manifesto arose.
Stories / Good practices
Dreamstime supports the creative community
Dreamstime, a stock photography company and a supplier of high quality digital images, supports the creative community by increasing the royalties value.
Events
And Oh Those Eyes That Were Data-Saturated
An online project initiated by visual artist Leontios Toumpouris and the Cultural Section of the Cyprus High Commission in the UK.
Events
Together / Apart : Going New Places
An online exhibition, organised by the Cyprus High Commission in the UK – Cultural Section and sponsored by the Cultural Services – Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth of Cyprus.
Events
IMPAKT > Open Call for Video Works, ‘Love in the Time of Corona’ (Online)
IMPAKT would like to respond to this situation with an Open Call for video works.
Stories / Good practices
Art Will Save Us
An archive of contemporary art in times of crisis. Live – performances by contemporary artists.
Stories / Good practices
Sensorium Festival Weekly Newsletter
Sensorium is a digital arts & culture festival and platform building a thoughtful and foresightful society.
Stories / Good practices
FORMEVISIVE – A web channel to react and to keep art alive
8 actors have been working from their homes, to generate over 85 original and unpublished online content, using the theatrical language but making the works specific for the use through the web.
