Attorney at Law, Partner
Contact: matthew@covey.law
Covey is an arts worker, attorney, and activist who has spent his career helping performing artists build bridges between international communities. He has been a touring musician, talent buyer, agent, manager, and is a leading global advocate for artist mobility. He is a founding board member of Tamizdat, a Brooklyn-based NGO committed to legal research, education, and advocacy regarding US-bound artist mobility and visa issues. He is the founding partner of CoveyLaw, a Brooklyn-based law firm that addresses the legal needs of the international cultural community. Covey speaks internationally on immigration, artist mobility, equity, and law at legal and cultural convenings. He is a member of the board of directors of On The Move, the Brussels-based Artist Mobility network, and Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History, a New York-base organization that uses performance and education to amplify underrepresented voices in history.
Covey has presented and chaired sessions on artist mobility, immigration, equity, and law at numerous conferences, including Alliance of Artist Communities (St. Paul), Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam), APAP (New York), Arts Midwest (Minneapolis), CMJ (New York), Edinburgh Fringe (Edinburgh), Eurosonic (Groningen), FimPro (Guadalajara), Focus Wales (Wrexham), Folk Alliance (Kansas City, Montreal, New Orleans), Grantmakers in the Arts (Denver), Great Escape (Brighton), HWCH (Dublin), IndieWeek (New York), ISPA (New York) Ireland Music Week (Dublin), M4Music (Zürich), MIL (Lisbon), MICC (Montreal), MaMA (Paris), Mundial Montreal (Montreal), Music Week Poland (Warsaw), New Colossus (New York), NIVA (Washington DC), NXNE (Toronto), Output Belfast (Belfast), Palestine Music Expo (Ramallah), Reeperbahn (Hamburg), SHARPE (Bratislava), Spring Break (Poznan), SXSW (Austin), TIMM (Tokyo), Visa for Music (Rabat), Western Arts Alliance (Los Angeles), WOMEX (Copenhagen, Thessaloniki, Santiago De Compostela, Cardiff, Budapest, Las Palmas, Tampere, Porto, Lisbon), World Justice Forum (Warsaw), Winter Jazz (New York), and YouBloom (Dublin).
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