User:Czar/drafts/coronavirus + arts

Overview

Precarity

The virus's impact laid bare the precarity of work as an independent contractor or arts freelancer in a sector that is generally underemployed, indebted, and without savings. In New York, those workers do not qualify for paid sick leave, severance, or employer matching retirement programs. Their health insurance and self-employment taxes are high. Guild or union health insurance may be tired to working a proportion of the year.^[1]

A survey by Dance/NYC reported annual dancer income just above the New York City poverty line.^[1]

Across opera, dance, and choral music, some companies paid performers through the season while others did not. Across the arts, individuals and institutions pooled arts freelancer resources for emergency funds and remote work, but added to the complexity, struggling freelancers turned to under-resourced arts organizations embroiled by the same economic impacts. Others started online fundraisers to pool donations for low-income artists and arts workers. Most of those seeking financial assistance needed help with rent, food, and medicine.^[1]

Fine art

Performing arts

As governments and populations reacted to the virus's spread by canceling group activities, DJs and musicians were the first affected, as special events and gigs such as weddings, festivals, and conferences were canceled. In subsequent waves, arts teachers' classes were canceled, until most audience-based artists went out of work.^[1]

adapting/effects

-funds

-labor

-moved online

shutdowns

impact

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/performing-artists-and-the-financial-fallout-of-the-coronavirus

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