Copy Link A year of COVID completely upended nearly every sector of the arts. How have you gotten by? (Illustration by Vida Kuang) A year ago, on the verge of shelter in place, country singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash offered an encouraging reminder to the world’s artists, writers, musicians and other creatives: that “when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote Looking back now, things didn’t work out quite so well for most artists in today’s pandemic. With jobs lost, income evaporated and safety nets thinner than ever, the Bay Area’s arts sector was lucky to simply hang on (let alone write a 350-page tragedy).