Career support made just for artists

“In 2012-2016, 59.3 percent of artists worked full-year/full-time. Only 22.8 percent of actors were employed full-time for the entire year.” National Endowment for the Arts, “Artists and Other Cultural Workers: A Statistical Portrait” (April 2019): 25.

“Artists are more than three times as likely as the U.S. workforce to be self-employed (34 percent versus 10 percent).” National Endowment for the Arts, “Artists and Arts Workers in the United States: Findings from the American Community Survey (2005-2009) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (2010),” National Endowment for the Arts, “NEA Research Note #105” (October 2011): 12, https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/105.pdf.  

“Only 29% of working artists are or had been represented by galleries, and ranked the contribution of galleries to their financial stabilities at little over a 2 (out of 10). In comparison, they ranked the financial contribution of grants, fellowships, and paid residencies at a 3 and their contribution to the meaningful development of their work as a 8, but only 41% of survey respondents had received these kinds of support in the past.” Creative Independent, A study of the financial state of visual artists today (2018): 9-11.