To our Gray Area Family,
During this unprecedented time of challenges and changes, we’ve also witnessed a deepening of connection in our communities. We’ve seen artists, musicians, educators, cultural workers, and arts organizations come together, collaboratively conceiving mutual aid strategies and forging ways to connect deeply at a distance.
At Gray Area, we have compiled a selection from the many online lists and guides in response to COVID-19. Some are for those seeking art and inspiration, others are for those seeking relief. While certainly not all-encompassing, we hope that this list can direct you to inspiring art, useful resources, and more.

We’ll continue to update this list weekly, and please feel free to submit more resources, we would love to hear from you. Thank you for your support of our community.

Emergency Funds & Grants For Artists

• Artist Relief Fund: Apply to receive financial assistance of up to $5,000.
• Artists Now Fund: Apply to receive financial assistance of up to $500.
• The Creator Fund: Apply to receive financial assistance of up to $500.
• CERF+ Artists' Safety Net: Artists can apply for emergency grants of up to $3,000.
• Foundation For Contemporary Art: Artists can apply for emergency grants of up to $1,000.
• Kinkade Grant for Curators: Apply as a curator for $5,000 by April 12.
• Leveler: Apply for funds or donate to this peer to peer distributed wealth platform.
• Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund: Performing arts workers can apply for up to $1,500.
• Rauschenberg Emergency Grants: Apply as an artist for up to $5,000.
• San Francisco Arts & Artists Relief Fund: Apply as an artist or non-profit for up to $2,000.
• Untitled, Art Emergency Fund: Artists in the Bay Area can apply for $250.

Emergency Funds & Grants For Musicians & Live Performers

• The Beat Goes On Fund: Supporting Bay Area DJs.
• The SF Queer Nightlife Fund: Supporting workers in SF’s nightlife scene.
• Equal Sounds Corona Relief Fund: Supporting musicians with event cancellations.
• MusiCares Relief Fund: Supporting artists and live professionals.
• Music Foundation: Emergency grant for musicians.

• Gray Area Festival: View videos of past talks.
• Algorithmic Art Assembly: View videos of past talks.
• Quarantime!: Weekly video conversations moderated by Gray Area Chairman Peter Hirshberg.

• Fault Radio Relief Sessions: Live sessions with artists every Thursday through Saturday.

Gray Area Reads!

• Expanded Cinema With Gene Youngblood: Virtual Book Club weekly on Sundays

Experiential Space Research Lab

• Reworlding: The Art of Living Systems
• Artist Celeste Martore Explores Fiction and Reality Through Space
• Artist Brenda (Bz) Zhang Examines Sense of Belonging In the Built Environment
• Considering Reorientation Of The Self with Artist Jonathon Keats
• Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye Entangles The Social And The Spatial
• Cultivating creative communities with Rena Tom
• Artist Stephanie Andrews Navigates Contemporary Issues Through Delight & Wonder
• Artist Yulia Pinkusevich Explores the Psychology of Space

• Processing
• VCV Rack
• TidalCycle
• Hydra
• Supercollider
• OpenFrameworks
• KORG will provide Kaossilator for iOS and Android for free for a limited time.