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Pursuing your artistic career full-time shouldn’t mean sacrificing your personal wellbeing or lifestyle. Find and connect with resources that will support you living a happy, healthy and fulfilling life while pursuing your career.
- Indiana Housing Resources for Artists
- Indiana COVID-19 Rental Assistance Program
- The Hawks, Goshen
A live/work community designed for artists and entrepreneurs with space to work, live, and entertain - Uptown Artists Lofts, Michigan City
Affordable live/work facility for low-income artists and their families, resident gallery exhibition/performance space, and commercial space for creative businesses and arts organizations - Indy Indie Artists Colony, Indianapolis
- Artist and Public Life Residency (APLR), Indianapolis
Affordable housing for artists - The Actor’s Fund Housing Board
- Indiana Housing Now
Affordable housing opportunities - Homebuyer Education
Help preparing for buying and owning a house from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHDCA) - Homebuyer Programs
Special financing and help from the IHDCA - Renter’s Rights (IHCDA)
- Health Insurance for Artists
- What is a Health Center?
Federally regulated health services provided regardless of ability to pay - Find a Health Center
- Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP)
- The Marketplace
- Artists Guide to Health Insurance
- See Resources for Your Business for information on insuring your artistic practice!
- What is a Health Center?
- Mental and Physical Health for Artists
- Entertainment Assistance Program
Counseling, support, and financial assistance for performing arts or entertainment professionals - The Dancer’s Resource
Emotional support and resources for dancers recovering from a significant injury - The Songwriter’s Lifeline
Support for personal or work-related problems - HIV/AIDS Initiative
Confidential, holistic plans and support systems for entertainment professionals - Disability Support
Supportive services for entertainment professionals and their families when they are coping with a short- or long-term illness or disability - What to do if you can’t afford therapy
- Resources on Harassment in the Workplace
- Entertainment Community Fund
- Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
- 16 Directories for Therapists of Color
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
- Free Online Guided Meditation
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Online Sobriety Resources: AA, NA, Al-Anon, Tempest, In the Rooms
- Dance Injury Prevention with May Kesler
- Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime, about any type of crisis.
- Be Well Indiana - mental health resources for Hoosiers
- Entertainment Assistance Program
- Parenthood Resources for Artists
- Artist Residency in Motherhood
- You can be a mother and still be a successful artist
- Artists Raising Kids
A collection of thoughts and tactics from artists parents - Artist Parent Index
A searchable index of artists, exhibits, and resources exploring production and caretaking - Women’s Studio Workshop
- Emergency Support for Artists
- Artists At Risk Connection (ARC)
A global directory of resources to help artists. - Insurance in the Arts- Virtual Pocket Guides
- CERF+
Voluntary task force supplying temporary relief to artists - The Haven
Assistance for artists facing career-threatening emergencies - Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
Grant awards to artists facing unexpected disasters - Artists' Charitable Fund
Financial support for artists struck by medical, fire, or other disasters - Artists' Fellowship, Inc.
Financial assistance for artists in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement, or unexpected extreme hardship - Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Funding for artists dealing with hardship or who incur unexpected expenses for projects close to the completion date - Disability Support
Supportive services for entertainment professionals and their families when they are coping with a short- or long-term illness or disability. - The Actor’s Fund Disaster Resources
- Funeral & Burial Assistance for entertainment professionals
- Actors Fund Entertainment Assistance Program
Support for demonstrated financial need to performing arts and entertainment professionals with at least five years of paid industry earnings - Alliance for Artist Communities Emergency Funds for Individual Artists Participating in Residencies
Support for artists who have been accepted and scheduled for a residency, but are not able to participate due to a sudden change in circumstances - American Institute for Conservation for Historic and Artistic Works
Help for cultural institutions during emergencies such as flooding. - Authors League Fund
Helps professional writers continue their careers, even their lives, with dignity by providing open-ended, interest-free, no-strings-attached loans to pay for pressing expenses - Jazz Foundation of America
For jazz and blues musicians requiring emergency assistance and social services - MusiCares
Provides assistance to musicians including musical instrument replacement for musicians affected by disasters - PEN Writer’s Emergency Fund
The PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund is an emergency fund for professional—published or produced—writers in acute, emergency financial crisis - Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
For painters, artists, and sculptors who work on paper, including printmakers, with demonstrable financial need - Foundation for Contemporary Artists
Immediate assistance to visual and performing artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad
- Artists At Risk Connection (ARC)
Listings are not endorsements and do not necessarily represent the views of the Indiana Arts Commission or State of Indiana.
