Several organizations are providing grants to North Central Washington artists to help them during COVID-19. | Stock Photo
Several organizations are providing grants to North Central Washington artists to help them during COVID-19. | Stock Photo
The Icicle Creek Center for the Arts will provide local working artists grants through a new partnership with two organizations.
With funding from The Icicle Fund, The Methow Arts Alliance and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts will offer 72 1,000 grants to eligible applicants in the North Central Washington area, the organizations said in a release.
The partnership will award grants to working artists residing in Okanogan, Chelan, Grant and Douglas counties who have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Artists are the basic building blocks of the Arts Ecosystem," the partnership said in a release. "Without creating artists, the system does not exist."
Applicants will have to show that they lost income due to the pandemic or related shutdowns and have difficulty meeting their living expenses, the release said. To qualify, applicants must be North Central Washing working artists aged 21 or older or financially independent.
Grants applications are reviewed every two weeks, the release said, with funding awarded until the $72,000 is tapped out. Artists from Chelan and Grant counties and Okanogan and Douglas counties should apply online.
“We tried to make this a quick process,” Rebecca Ryker, fund executive director, said, 560 KPQ news radio reported. “These are need-based grants.”
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