WHO WE ARE

Artists In Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC is a collective of disabled and chronically ill artists and organizers. We’re creating an air purifier lending library, and we need your help.

Our goal is simple: support artists, performers and cultural workers in hosting COVID-safer, more accessible events in NYC.

The pandemic is ongoing, and COVID continues to cause illness, disability, and death in our communities. Meanwhile, the public health response has been systematically dismantled. Our government, institutions, and workplaces have failed us, but we can protect each other. Illness need not be the price of living in community or participating in the arts.

We’re joining a growing network of volunteer-run action groups offering concrete tools, community education, and harm reduction. We can slow the spread of airborne infection in our city, and we know how to do it–together.

We refuse to abandon, isolate, and exclude each other. We insist on joy, solidarity, and community care. We are Artists in Resistance.

WHAT YOUR SUPPORT DOES

Running our air purifier lending library involves various operating costs, including:

Transporation Fund. This is an essential part of our project, and supports our ability to make this community resource available to all !
It is intended to fill the gaps where transport would be a barrier preventing an artist or community member from being able to pick up a purifier for their event, due to lack of car or funds for ubers/lyfts. We currently prioritize requests from disabled and/or chronically ill borrowers, but anyone can request use of the fund. We hope over time to grow this fund to serve more and more community members.
Our monthly storage and upkeep costs
Damage Fund / A community-funded insurance policy

Artists in Resistance NYC ongoing operating costs fund

By Artists in Resistance NYC

Artists in Resistance NYC ongoing operating costs fund