Louisiana Division of the Arts

KATRINA

Arts ReLIEF, RECOVERY, REBUILD

September 12, 2005



The Division of the Arts will be regularly updating our arts community on the relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts for Louisiana's arts industry. A special update will be sent out every 48 -72 hours with archives located on our homepage. Until further notice, the regular Email Forum will be suspended while we are addressing the needs of all our artists, arts professionals and arts institutions.



ARTIST RELOCATION FORM
We are working to develop a comprehensive Information Management System that can be used to track our native artists around the state and nationally and also to connect our arts infrastructure to the resources - both financial and technical assistance information - they will need until such time as we can return to our homes and work across Southeast Louisiana. While we work to implement this infrastructure, artists can complete the Artist Relocation Form in an effort to locate our state's displaced artists. This form will also be available to our local and regional arts councils throughout Louisiana. The Artist Relocation Form , http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/ARTISTINFORMATION.pdf, can be returned to our office via email at arts@crt.state.la.us or via fax at 225-342-8173. You can also forward the form to your local arts council, which can be found by clicking here.



LOUISIANA PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS ORGANIZATION LOCATION DATABASE
The Louisiana Partnership for the Arts Katrina Displacement Contact Database has been added to the LPA website

at this URL:http://www.lparts.org/KatrinaInfo1.cfm

Its purpose is to provide the best current contact information we have for Louisiana arts organizations that have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina.



UPCOMING
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge is hosting a 2nd community meeting, Art Relief Working Together, on September 13th at the Arts Council's office in the Community Room, 427 Laurel Street, Downtown Baton Rouge at 3:30pm.

For additional information please contact The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge.



The next edition of the Katrina: Relief, Recovery, Rebuild Special Update will include information on current year grant awards for Regions 1 and 3 (New Orleans and Houma). We will also be posting a Web Billboard for Katrina-related resources on the Division of the Arts home page.





SUBSCRIBE
If you would like to subscribe to the Katrina: Arts Relief, Recovery, Rebuild Special Updates, please send an email to arts@crt.state.la.us and type SUBSCRIBE KATRINA in the subject line.





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