As those of us involved in independent film know well, the ecosystem for creating this work is tenuous at best.
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Artists, Curators, and Dealers Launch Initiatives to Support Black Lives Matter Movement
As protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by policemen in Minneapolis have continued to rock the United States, many in the art world have gotten involved. Earlier this week, artists,
🎙️Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin 📹 May 2020
From the Executive Director. The notes I write in this eBulletin are designed to be uplifting to the arts organizations, cultural institutions, filmmakers, youth media centers and creative communities that make up the Alliance member network.
OUR COMMITMENTS TO ACCESSIBILITY
OUR COMMITMENTS TO ACCESSIBILITY Accessibility virtually requires us to consider multiple and often intersecting axes.Over the last 4+ years, the Alliance Youth Media Network has...
WHAT IS YOUTH MEDIA?
WHAT IS YOUTH MEDIA? On October 25, 2019, The Alliance Youth Media Network convened a Video Roundtable centered on the question, “What is youth media?”...
🎙️Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin 📹 March 2020
Friends, colleagues, members, partners, … I hope everyone is someplace safe as we navigate this new reality. As we struggle collectively to locate ourselves in virtual and emotional proximity to one another when physical closeness is prohibited and could be a matter of life and death, I have realized in a new way how much my own identity is grounded in other people.
National Endowment for the Arts to Distribute $75 million in Relief Aid to Arts Organizations in Need
Washington, DC—In recognition of the arts’ $877 billion contribution to the U.S. economy and a source of 5.1 million American jobs, the National Endowment for the Arts will distribute $75 million in funding provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Creative Resilience in a Time of Pandemic
There is a part of me that didn’t want to write this blog. Our news and social media feeds have been bombarded with news of COVID-19, the worldwide pandemic of a new virus that has no vaccine (as of yet) and that has upended our lives in so many ways.