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With Art Shows On Hold, Money From The CARES Act Helps Keep Artists Afloat In San Juan County

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With Art Shows On Hold, Money From The CARES Act Helps Keep Artists Afloat In San Juan County
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Ernie Washee discovered to solder from his cousins whereas rising up on the Navajo Nation. Now, he lives in Blanding and makes jewellery with engraved stones and silver. Usually he sells it at artwork exhibits, however this 12 months has been completely different.

“It has been sluggish, very sluggish,” Washee mentioned. “I haven’t made a sale since February, which was down in Las Cruxes, New Mexico.”

That modified final week when he made his first sale by means of the Bluff Arts Competition, which is on-line this 12 months.

The state of Utah obtained $1.25 billion from the federal authorities by means of the federal CARES Act this spring. Now, a few of that cash goes to assist artists in San Juan County.

San Juan County gave the competition $5,000 out of the almost $1.5 million it obtained from the state. That cash went on to honorariums for filmmakers and commercials selling a web based artwork market, in accordance with competition coordinator Amanda Podmore.

“Surveying previous artists, what we heard was that they wished assist with publicity, as a result of most in-person occasions this 12 months had been cancelled,” Podmore mentioned. “So we chosen 30 artists and made each artist a webpage on the Bluff Arts Fest web site.”

A Navajo man holds a hand torch with flames coming out of the end.

Courtesy of Ernie Washee

Navajo silversmith Ernie Washee melts silver and pours it into an ingot mould. Every of his rock artwork jewellery items is exclusive.

The county additionally put aside $110,000 to reimburse buying and selling posts for the price of half of all of the objects they buy, permitting them to purchase extra artwork and earn more money. And Twin Rocks buying and selling put up in Bluff obtained $102,000 of funding by means of the state’s ‘Store In Utah’ Program.

San Juan County Financial Improvement Director Natalie Randall mentioned the county wished to discover a option to give CARES Act dollars on to native artists, however they opted to provide it to buying and selling posts as an alternative due to the monitoring necessities for the cash imposed by the federal authorities.

“The laborious factor with having the ability to instantly shift funds to artisans who work of their houses, is that a variety of them don’t have companies arrange, so there isn’t a option to switch funds that may be tracked,” Randall mentioned.

Twin Rocks proprietor Steve Simpson mentioned he’s planning to use for the county’s program, which opened on Monday. Within the meantime, he’s been capable of give clients 30% off their purchases, each in-store and on-line.

He mentioned he then makes use of the CARES Act cash to purchase extra artwork to promote.

“I may have spent the cash on electrical energy and wages,” Simpson mentioned. “However the native artists are actually struggling and we thought that may be a great way to assist them out.”

Simpson mentioned Twin Rocks additionally obtained funding from the state to supply starvation reduction by means of the buying and selling put up’s restaurant. For each meal bought, he mentioned they donate one meal to a Navajo household in want.



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