[NEWS] NYC To Launch City Artist Corps With $25 Million To Support Local Artists


May 11, 2021 

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio poses for a photo with the Fearless Girl statue during a press availability, March 27, 2017 in New York City. 
Courtesy of Drew Angerer/Getty Images. 



New York City officials on May 6 announced the $25 million City Artists Corps, which will create jobs for 1,500 artists and is inspired by the Works Progress Administration effort that characterized Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal administration during the Great Depression. The city’s arts and recreation sector were hard hit by the crushing Covid-19 pandemic, sustaining a 60% drop in employment across the industry last year, from around 87,000 total jobs in Feb. 2020 to around 34,100 jobs in April 2020, according to a recent report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office.


Art and artists make New York City the cultural capital of the world, and the artistic community has an essential role in building a recovery for all of us,” said New York mayor Bill de Blasio in statement. “The City Artist Corps will tap into our greatest resource—New Yorkers’ boundless creativity—to create jobs and make our city more beautiful and vibrant than ever.”
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Crete Meat (2016), taken from Swineburn's Pasiphae (2014).
Courtesy of Jason Wyche for Public Art Fund. 



The federally funded effort, the details of which have not yet been released, comes as officials attempt to bring the city roaring back to life in the wake of the worst of the pandemic, with 24/7 subway service to resume this month, and capacity restrictions on the city’s museums, restaurants, and cultural venues lifted shortly thereafter. The program has already met with criticism in widely disparate quarters, with Hyperallergic pointing out that the number of artists who will benefit directly from it represent a fraction of the 56,000 residing in the city at last count in 2015, and the New York Post noting that others have groused that the money could better be used to “bolster city reserves.” 




Mayor Bill de Blasio leaves after making an announcement at Delacorte Theater in Central Park in March of 2021. 
Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images. 



“A recovery for all has to include culture, which is such an important part of healthy, vibrant neighborhoods,” said NYC cultural affairs commissioner Gonzalo Casales in a statement. “Building on efforts to lift up all residents and spur New York’s recovery, the City Artist Corps will bring public spaces to life in all five boroughs and make sure the Summer of New York City is a Summer of Art.” 





 


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