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Cleveland.com  |  May 18, 2020

Spaces announces 50 new emergency relief grants up to $1,000 each for artists hurt by coronavirus pandemic

By Steven Litt | Cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The nonprofit gallery Spaces provided 60 artists with $1,000 emergency relief grants earlier this spring to soften hardships caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.

Now, starting Wednesday, Spaces will accept applications for a second round of $50,000 in grants for at least 50 artists through spacesgallery/submittable.com. Funding for the new grants, for amounts up to $1,000 apiece, is coming from the Cleveland Foundation.

“Even before closing our first round of emergency grants, we knew we wanted to do more,” Megan Young, the interim executive director at Spaces, said in a news release.

The new grants, like the previous round, may be used for "living expenses, medical bills, or similar purposes,’’ the gallery said.

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