Organized by THE OFFICE Performing Arts+ Film and the FreshGrass Foundation, AAW Kicks Off with Cultural Hub Institutions Including Hancock Shaker Village, Images Cinema, Institute for the Musical Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, MASS MoCA, and The Mount, Supporting Artists Spanning Disciplines in Work with a Wide Range of Local Social Impact Initiatives
THE OFFICE Performing Arts+ Film, in an effort to provide artists across the U.S. a living wage and foster healthy communities in the wake of the financially catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, today launches Artists at Work (AAW), a new program inspired by FDR’s Depression-era Works Progress Administration and its Federal Project Number One, which at its peak employed more than 40,000 writers, musicians, artists, and actors nationwide. Designed to be scaled to regions in every state in the U.S., AAW will begin with a pilot in Western Massachusetts including six cultural institutions--Hancock Shaker Village (Craft and Design), Images Cinema (Film), Institute for the Musical Arts (Music), Jacob’s Pillow (Dance), MASS MoCA (Visual Art and Performance), and The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home (Literature)—six artists, and six local social impact initiatives that address issues such as substance abuse and poverty, mental health, and food justice. As America endures and eventually emerges from this unprecedented public health and economic crisis, AAW aims to help a significant number of artists to continue to make work, to activate cultural institutions in support of that work, to put that work into the public sphere for free to audiences (and, in doing so, to boost local economies), and to use the artists and their work in the service of building healthy communities.
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THE OFFICE Performing Arts+ Film, in an effort to provide artists across the U.S. a living wage and foster healthy communities in the wake of the financially catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, today launches Artists at Work (AAW), a new program inspired by FDR’s Depression-era Works Progress Administration and its Federal Project Number One, which at its peak employed more than 40,000 writers, musicians, artists, and actors nationwide. Designed to be scaled to regions in every state in the U.S., AAW will begin with a pilot in Western Massachusetts including six cultural institutions--Hancock Shaker Village (Craft and Design), Images Cinema (Film), Institute for the Musical Arts (Music), Jacob’s Pillow (Dance), MASS MoCA (Visual Art and Performance), and The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home (Literature)—six artists, and six local social impact initiatives that address issues such as substance abuse and poverty, mental health, and food justice. As America endures and eventually emerges from this unprecedented public health and economic crisis, AAW aims to help a significant number of artists to continue to make work, to activate cultural institutions in support of that work, to put that work into the public sphere for free to audiences (and, in doing so, to boost local economies), and to use the artists and their work in the service of building healthy communities.
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