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Quilt Alliance to Receive $50,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Rescue Plan
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Asheville, NC, January 27, 2022
The Quilt Alliance is pleased to announce they have been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. The Quilt Alliance is recommended to receive $50,000 and may use this funding to save jobs and to fund operations and facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation. In total, the NEA will award grants totaling $57,750,000 to 567 arts organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC. The NEA received more than 7,500 eligible applications requesting $695 million.
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“Our nation’s arts sector has been among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Endowment for the Arts’ American Rescue Plan funding will help arts organizations, such as the Quilt Alliance, rebuild and reopen,” said Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, chair of the NEA. “The arts are crucial in helping America’s communities heal, unite, and inspire, as well as essential to our nation’s economic recovery.”
“Prior to the pandemic, the Alliance delivered the majority of its oral history content online, but collected this documentation in-person at quilt guilds, public libraries, museums, exhibitions and quilt shows throughout the US,” said Amy Milne, Quilt Alliance executive director. “The pandemic caused us to pause key project activities in order to document quilt community reactions to the crisis and focus on the conversion of in-person programming to online programming (like the Quilters Take a Moment event). American Rescue Plan funding will ensure the retention of project staff key to our mission, contractor fees to help index oral history interviews, honorariums for artists who participate in community events, and marketing services to attract and retain new audiences online.”
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The American Rescue Plan was signed into law in March 2021 when the NEA was provided $135 million for the arts sector. The funding for organizations is the third installment providing more than $57.7 million for arts organizations. In April 2021, the NEA announced $52 million (40 percent) in ARP funding would be allocated to 62 state, jurisdictional, and regional arts organizations for regranting through their respective programs. The second installment in November 2021 allocated $20.2 million to 66 local arts agencies for subgranting to local artists and art organizations.
For more information on the NEA’s American Rescue Plan grants, including the full list of arts organizations funded in this announcement, visit www.arts.gov.
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