The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual ArtsTeams Up With Lin-Manuel Miranda to Aid Puerto Rico
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation are teaming up with theater impresario Lin-Manuel Miranda to donate $300,000 to Puerto Rico relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The gift, announced on Tuesday, will aide arts and cultural workers who are struggling in the aftermath of the devastating storm, which rendered an estimated 3.4 million people without power and all but destroyed the island’s energy grid. (As of press time, Maria had claimed at least 48 lives, and more than 80 percent of the power grid is still not functioning.)
For the three-part gift, each of the foundation partners donated $100,000 to El Serrucho: Hurricane Maria Emergency Fund, created by San Juan-based organization Beta-Local, a nonprofit organization that has redirected its efforts toward emergency relief since the category four hurricane made landfall two weeks ago. Miranda’s $100,000 portion was made through the Hispanic Federation Relief Effort, which has also coordinated donation and relief efforts in the area...