As Arts Workers Look To the Future, Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund Assists in the Present
by Nicole Gluckstern For performing arts workers who are accustomed to piecing together a living from freelance, contract, and part-time work, the pandemic shutdown of 2020 cut them off, not only from performance opportunities, but from multiple sources of income. Artist-friendly gigs such as bodywork, bartending, fitness instruction, and event production were among the first casualties of the pandemic shutdown, a…