If coronavirus hasn’t sidelined so much activity, right about now I would be working on stories for Applause, our annual performing and visual arts supplement published each August. (The supplement has been postponed for 2020.) Chief among those stories was to be a profile of Terry Loftis, pictured, who within the last year was named head of TACA, a foundation that provides grants and arts funding across North Texas.
We likely would have discussed the challenges and goals of running such an organization. Now we all pretty much know what a hurdle serving the arts has become.
And as of this morning, TACA is doing its best to clear that hurdle. Loftis announced the TACA Resiliency Initiative, a new program to make TACA more helpful and easier