Tag Archive "linc"

Healthcare for artists

Need healthcare? Well, if you’re like lots of other artists (and others), you can’t afford it, and that was the issue raised a number of years ago when a 10-year, multi-city project to improve artists’ lives, called LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity), polled Philadelphia artists about what they most needed (here are our reports on the initial LINC meetings:

Your health insurance

We just got an SOS from LINC Philadelphia, part of a Ford Foundation national effort to improve artists’ lives. They are trying to get artists to take a survey on health insurance needs, and have only gotten 1/3 of the respondents they need. It’s short and even if you’re already hooked up with health insurance, it would help them to know this. If you’re not, you certainly owe it to yourself to take the time. Here’s an excerpt from their memo: One component of LINC Philadelphia is a feasibility study to determine strategies for making health insurance available to individual ... More » »

LINC to PLACE: affordable live/work space is coming

Remember LINC? artblog covered the day-long symposium LINC and others sponsored that was all about creating affordable work/live space and other issues (health care for artists). Here is a post and here is another and you’ll find more links in our index under “linc.” Today, one of the LINC participants, Chris Velasco, who at the time of the LINC symposium was with a group called ARTSPACE, sent out a news blast from his new organization (new to me at any rate) PLACE. Velasco was the housing-sector expert at the LINC meeting. Aside from the acronymification of the non-profit sector, the ... More » »