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DocuSign Envelope ID:OB8A8B61-1417-44D9-9C3A-2C75D1A48A10 <br /> Describe the impact With every challenge comes an opportunity. The initial shock of <br /> of COVID-19 on your cancelling schools and camps made way for creative programming <br /> organization including from some of our talented teaching partners. Ceramics teachers are <br /> financial loss and offering online mindful hand building classes. Watercolor teachers <br /> staff/operating are still working online with their students and online digital <br /> changes: photography has been well received by our new online student body. <br /> We are offered three weeks of online camps for our younger campers <br /> and we offered six weeks of in person camps this summer. <br /> When schools were cancelled, we lost our entire afterschool program <br /> and had to lay off all the part time teaching artists and administrative <br /> staff related to that program. <br /> The ArtsCenter will continue to respond to the needs of our <br /> community. We are offering online hip hop dance, improv, and swing <br /> dance classes as restrictions and infection rates are lowered and we <br /> have opened limited painting classes with smaller enrollment to allow <br /> for proper social distancing. We have opened our ceramics studio <br /> for artists to come fire and glaze the work they have created while <br /> they were at home. As each month gives us new opportunities to <br /> create meaningful moments at home and in person we have <br /> expanded our course catalog here to respond to the needs of <br /> families who need engaging creative classes so they may work or <br /> take time for their own self-care while the children are occupied. <br /> (https://artscenterilve.org/performances/category/classes/). The <br /> limitations on class size and audiences who are willing to take remote <br /> classes has affected our teaching artists because we are not hiring <br /> them for as many classes to produce their regular income. We also <br /> have not been able to hire teaching artists who work in our Title I <br /> outreach schools with our Artist in Residence programs. <br /> The ArtsCenter is a performance venue and we were proud to offer <br /> free webcasts of a live scoring to Buster Keaton films by Tim Carliss. <br /> With this success we plan on offering more as we navigate this new <br /> way to reach our audiences. With no in-person school for children <br /> this fall we are developing pivots for this programming and lost <br /> performance revenue as we speak. Unfortunately, with no live <br /> performances since January (we had to close our performances in <br /> February), we had to let our house managers and our Performance <br /> Manager go. <br /> At this point we are still working to help fill the creative needs of our <br /> community. In order to maintain the building we have to cut costs. <br /> Many of our staff are working at reduced wages to offset the loss in <br /> revenue from camps, ArtSchool and Afterschool Arts Immersion <br /> programs. <br />