Impact on Nonprofit Arts and Culture Sector plus Impact on Artist/Creative Workers
Americans for the Arts
Published May 4, 2020
The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on America’s arts sector. Since the first U.S. case was reported on January 20, 2020 cancellations and closings are taking place at thousands of arts organizations across the country, and two-thirds of the nation’s artists are now unemployed. Americans for the Arts leads the three premier national studies tracking the human and financial impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the arts. MORE