To our members and the communities affected by the many wildfires in Southern California, please know our hearts are with you. WAA will do what we can to alert you to resources that can help you and your artist communities cope with this disaster. Below you will find resources to help with Basic Needs, access to Local Emergency Funding for Artists or National Emergency Funding for Artists, or how you can Request Mutual Aid.
To our community and members throughout the West and beyond, we encourage you to contribute toward the emergency effort. See How You Can Help below such as Donate or Offer Mutual Aid or Attend an Event.
We are with you Los Angeles.
- WAA Board and Staff
Relief & Resources for Impacted People
Basic Needs
The Red Cross of Los Angeles County: Disaster relief services, including shelter, food, and emotional support.
211 Los Angeles: A comprehensive helpline connecting residents to essential health and human services, including disaster preparedness and emergency response information.
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: Distributes food to individuals and families in need.
Pasadena Community Foundation: Established the Eaton Canyon Fire Relief and Recovery Fund to support immediate and pressing needs arising from local wildfires.
Local Emergency Funding for Artists
This list of individual artists living in Los Angeles who are affected by the wildfires is being managed by The Center for Provocative Thought.
LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund
Led by the J. Paul Getty Trust and administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation, the fund will provide emergency support for artists and arts workers who have lost homes, livelihoods, studios, or been impacted by the wildfires in some other way.
National Emergency Funding for Artists
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant
Provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors.
Artists’ Fellowship One-Time Emergency Aid
The Artists’ Fellowship provides one-time emergency aid to professional visual fine artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement, or unexpected extreme hardship.
Provides craft artists with financial assistance including designers and technical artists like costume makers.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding and incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.
Request Mutual Aid
Many local arts group have been leading mutual aid efforts to collect and distribute services and supplies for artists. Please check the links to see if they are still accepting donations and when they plan to distribute supplies.
If you need relief or resources, please see these offers to help for artists as well as arts and culture workers that have been impacted by the LA wildfires. The list is being monitored by Arts for LA and the California Community Foundation.
LA Art World Fire Relief GoFundMe campaign
The organizers are also collecting urgent needs from people affected as well as collecting offers of mutual aid from legal expertise or help filing insurance claims to temporary housing.
For Impacted Organizations
If you have been impacted, please share your experience with Arts for LA so that we can understand the impact this crisis is having on the LA arts ecosystem.
How YOU CAN Help
If you are not impacted by the wildfires but want to help, this list compiled by the Los Angeles Times has the most comprehensive directory of organizations that provide vital emergencies services on the ground. There are also events you can attend and funds you can support.
Donate or Offer Mutual Aid
Many local arts group have been leading mutual aid efforts to collect and distribute services and supplies for artists. Please check the links to see if they are still accepting donations and when they plan to distribute supplies.
If you are part of an arts, culture and/or entertainment organization that can provide goods, resources, and services to artists and creative workers, join the list by completing the Artist & Creative Workers Mutual Aid Wildfire Resources Form.
California Community Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund
CCF is collecting donations to address the long-term recovery needs of neighborhoods long after media attention has shifted away.
LA Art World Fire Relief GoFundMe campaign
This fund was set up by artists and arts professionals with a goal to raise $500,000. Grants to the LA-area artists and art workers affected by the 2025 wildfires will be vetted and distributed by The Brick who is serving as the fiscal sponsor and ensure donations will be tax deductible. They are also collecting offers of mutual aid from legal expertise or help filing insurance claims to temporary housing.
The foundation is seeking monetary donations to equip firefighters battling the wildfires with items including emergency fire shelters, hydration backpacks and wildland brush tools.
Attend an Event
Thursday, January 30
FireAid is a benefit concert organized by Live Nation and AEG Presents at Intuit Dome. Proceeds from the concert will go towards a 501(c)(3) created for this event that will focus on rebuilding infrastructure, supporting displaced families, and advancing fire prevention technologies and strategies to ensure LA is better prepared for fire emergencies.