Survival - Art Marketing with Eric Rhoads

It’s no secret that, due to the spread of COVID-19, millions of Americans have filed for unemployment recently (a record 6.65 million people filed a new jobless claim in the week that ended March 28). As part of our continued effort to help the art community, we’d like to share with you some avenues of financial help.

Video Interviews

Survival Strategies For Artists and Galleries
with B. Eric Rhoads and Jay Abraham

In the most recent recession, dozens of galleries and artist businesses did not survive. You’re about to learn what they did that drove them out of business faster. In an effort to help, I’ve recorded a video with Jay Abraham, America’s top marketing expert (and an author), who gets $100,000 a day for his advice. (He did the forward to my book.) Watch this video. It may save your business and help you through these times. And please feel free to share this. We want everyone to survive.

Managing Mindset
with Lee Milteer and Eric Rhoads

Lee Milteer is an internationally recognized Best-Selling Author, Award Winning Professional Speaker, TV Personality, and Intuitive Business Mentor. She has counselled and trained more than a million people in her speeches and has worked with Walt Disney, AT&T, Xerox, IBM, NASA, Federal Express, and more.

Eric Rhoads is a career entrepreneur, with 30 years of launching companies and media brands, creating startups, and building businesses, including over 40 years’ experience in the radio broadcasting field, 25 years in the publishing business, and a decade in the art industry. Rhoads serves as chairman of the board of Streamline Publishing, Inc., a company he founded in 1986. He also serves as a consultant and adviser to companies in media, technology, digital media, and art.

Coronavirus Marketing Blueprint
Jean Stern Interviews Eric Rhoads

Jean Stern is the Executive Director of The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine. Jean is an art historian and museum director who specializes in paintings of the California Impressionist period.

Financial Help for Artists

1. Covid-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Application Financial Help for Artists During COVID-19

From the U.S. Small Business Administration / Disaster Loan Assistance

The eligibility list includes options such as “Applicant is an individual who operates under a sole proprietorship, with or without employees, or as an independent contractor” and others that might apply to you and your art business.

Click here to learn more about the disaster loan and apply here. Find additional options through the SBA here.

2. The Artists’ Fellowship Fund Financial Help for Artists During COVID-19

The Artists’ Fellowship provides emergency aid to professional visual artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship.

Note: Due to the overwhelming requests for aid from the COVID-19 pandemic they are temporarily limiting relief and assistance applications to those qualified applicants who are dealing with IMMEDIATE MEDICAL EMERGENCIES and their aftermaths. This restriction will be revisited periodically as conditions change.

Click here to learn about eligibility.

3. The Opportunity Agenda / Pop Culture Collaborative

The Opportunity Agenda announced it will alot $1,000 stipends to artists of all mediums and freelance cultural strategists whose work has been significantly disrupted, reduced, delayed or lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The stipends aim to assist recipients with unexpected financial hardships that have disrupted their ability to advance social justice through their cultural work.

Each stipend is worth $1,000. To apply visit: bit.ly/ccassistance. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted. All stipend funds must be spent by July 31, 2020.

4. There are additional resources listed at SmugMug.com, a website for our extended family of artists, photographers. Please research the resources at Smug Mug before applying and submitting your personal information.