{"id":15650,"date":"2020-03-24T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2020-03-24T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:40:30","slug":"coronavirus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2020\/03\/24\/coronavirus-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Has Cost MA Artists And Cultural Organizations $58.59 Million. So Far."},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronavirus cancellations and shutdowns have cost Massachusetts artists and cultural organizations at least $58.59 million so far, the Massachusetts Cultural Council reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

The state arts agency\u2019s report is based on responses from 566 cultural nonprofits and 595 individual artists\/independent teaching artists-humanists-scientists to an online survey from March 16 to 22, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn just under a week,\u201d the Mass Cultural Council reported, \u201cour individual artists and independent teaching artists-humanists-scientists reported a total of more than $2.89M in lost personal income. \u2026 The Commonwealth\u2019s nonprofit cultural organizations reported a loss of more than $55.7M in revenue. This is not a projection; this is actual lost income reported to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Mass Cultural Council, artists averaged $5,000 in lost income\u2014the median income came in at $3,000. So far. Fifty-five percent of artists who responded said that arts\/culture income makes up 75 to 100 of their total income.<\/p>\n

The arts agency reported that cultural nonprofits lost, on average, $133,368 per organization. Eighty-eight percent reported cancelling programs and events\u2014for a total of 14,978 cancellations. Fifty-eight percent of organizations plan to lay off, furlough or reduce hours for staff. At least, 8,221 jobs will be impacted, and \u201cartists will be the hardest hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Effects of coronavirus on the Massachusetts arts and cultural sector, according to the Mass Cultural Council, March 24, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coronavirus cancellations and shutdowns have cost Massachusetts artists and cultural organizations at least $58.59 million so far, the Massachusetts Cultural Council reports. The state arts agency\u2019s report is based on responses from 566 cultural nonprofits and 595 individual artists\/independent teaching artists-humanists-scientists to an online survey from March 16 to 22, 2020. \u201cIn just under a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[706,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15657,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions\/15657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}