The Elephant Artist Relief Society, which supports independent artists in times of otherwise unsupported hardship, has now expanded to a health insurance subsidy pilot program.
Calgary visual artist Sabine Lecorre-Moore says a pilot health insurance program provides her with a safety net she didn't have before.After years of working at her parents’ Calgary restaurant and various other jobs, Tea Fannie put her fears aside and pursued a full-time career as rap artist at the age of 30.
“If I’m on a train and it’s on the tracks, but the tracks aren’t in front of you,” she explains. “As you’re moving forward, the track appears and it comes. It feels like a weird, jumping, leaping and trusting, but it works out because you’re working hard.” Fannie recently had more dental work done — and this time, with expenses covered by the EAR insurance program.
Tea Fannie says EAR frees her from having a nine-to-five job on top of writing, marketing, teaching and performing, so it helps her be more creative. “I’m able to spend more time on my art as opposed to stressing that I need a nine-to-five because I have bills to pay.” EAR’s emergency artist relief funding is a last resort resource intended to provide for costs up to a maximum of $2,500.
“Art is something as good as food. We need art and music for our spirit. We need to be behind them, especially the local artists,” Lecorre-Moore says.
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