As arts organizations have had to cancel performances and scale back programs, the Indiana Arts Commission has distributed over a half million dollars in federal funding to keep them afloat. The Indiana Arts Emergency Relief Fund is designed to help community-based arts providers with personnel costs, contracted artistic personnel, and operational costs. It’s supported by various agencies with funding from the CARES Act.
Two Marshall County organizations were among the recipients. Heartland Artists and the Plymouth Arts Commission will each get $3,000.
In all, almost 200 Indiana arts organizations were awarded a collective $585,000. The Indiana Arts Commission says those groups support almost 2,700 creative sector jobs and more than 8,500 working artists.
