Your Cultural District Grant & COVID-19

Indiana Arts Commission

Your Cultural District Grant & COVID-19


We recognize that many of you have seen your IAC-funded projects affected by the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19.

To help us understand grantees' needs and how projects are impacted, we are asking you to fill out an impact survey. The survey should take five minutes or less to complete.

You will see the survey on your dashboard when you log in to the online system.

After you have completed the survey, we will reach out to you directly if your project is affected to discuss next steps.  

Take the Survey

What you should know now:

  • If your program, event, performance, or project must be cancelled, grant funds can be used to pay for all costs up to the point of cancellation and not beyond, including: 
    • Artists or presenters. This includes travel cost loss reimbursement, time already executed on project, etc.
    • Incurred costs. For example, if an artist has expended planning time prior to the cancellation, funds can be used to cover those real costs. This also includes funds expended on marketing materials, supplies, or administrative costs. 
  • Project adjustments or extensions may be considered on a case-by-case basis according to the details provided in the survey.

We also highly recommend tracking any COVID-19-related expenses and losses that you incur. Should Federal emergency relief dollars become available in the future, you would need to have expenses and losses documented in order to be eligible to receive them.

Thank you for your patience. We know you have questions, and we're doing our best to find the answers to them. We're in this together.


Sincerely,

Anna Tragesser
Artist and Community Services Manager
Indiana Arts Commission

atragesser@iac.in.gov

(317) 232-1281

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