*Last updated: August 4, 2020

In Response to COVID-19:
Resources for the Craft Community

Please let us know how the COVID-19 pandemic impacting your craft practice: 

In coordination with other provincial Craft Councils and the Canadian Crafts Federation, we are providing two loss of revenues documents to help artists and arts organizations track their non-recoverable expenses and projected losses. It is important to track this data as arts funders will be looking to collect these details in the weeks to come.

Loss Revenues Document - Individual Craftspeople & Artists
Click here to download Excel file | Click here to download a PDF copy

Loss of Revenues Document – Craft Councils, Retail Craft Shops & Galleries
Click here to download Excel file | Click here to download a PDF copy

Take the I Lost My Gig Survey:
Cancellations, postponements, and gallery closures due to COVID-19 are having unprecedented impacts on the arts, cultural heritage, tourism, and creative industries in Canada. I Lost My Gig survey was created to get nation-wide arts sector data.
Fill out the I Lost My Gig survey here.

Health and Wellness:

• Government of Alberta COVID-19 info for Albertans
  
• Text4Hope from Alberta Health Services
  
• Government of Canada: Taking Care of Your Mental Health
  
  

Arts Funders response to COVID-19:

• Information from Canada Council

• Information from Alberta Foundation for the Arts

• Information from Edmonton Arts Council

• Information from Calgary Arts Development
  
  
• Canadian Heritage’s COVID-19 FAQs 
  
  

Resources for small businesses during this time:

• Resources for Canadian businesses (Government of Canada)

• Canadian Business Resilience Network (Canadian Chamber of Commerce)

• Support for entrepreneurs impacted by the coronavirus COVID-19 (BDC)

• COVID-19 business resources (EDC)

• Tools and tactics that startups can use to prepare, plan and respond to the 2019 coronavirus disease (MaRS)