Emergency Relief Package Provides For Tens Of Millions In Funds To Help The Arts
The package marks $75 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, $7.5 million for the Smithsonian, and $25 million for the Kennedy Center.
With mass closings of theaters and museums, cancellations or postponements of exhibitions, concerts, dance performances and more, the arts industry is in "economic freefall" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the advocacy group Americans For The Arts.
Absent revenue from ticket sales, gift shops, on-site dining and rapidly declining sponsorships,
