Anna, the 'creative' industries are drying up as a kind of canary in the mine thing. The general climate for creativity in the US is on one side getting paved over ( a la the CB's discussion here ). Sectors like the recording industry are going through a complete sea change (notice Tower Records on Broadway and 4th going out of business!) with a concurrent explosion of Do It Yourselfers and teeny tiny storefront labels marketing only on the web and through lower than no budget touring - think they got publicists, market researchers or even street teams? The cultural periodicals in print are sort of in the same predicament. In the city creative people have left in unprecedented numbers leaving whole creative sectors to be populated by the new nee-suburban class. Upper tier commercial production design firms will now do music videos for mid or low earning indie bands and actually take a loss. I myself have found it extremely hard just to book a gig for the kind of performance work that thrived only five or six years ago - the whole creative population of the nation is kind of running with their heads down just trying to make it through an increasingly paranoid social and economic environment. And like the classes in general the creative people in the midrange are disappearing increasingly leaving only the very ultracorporate concerns and brand names and the now burgeoning ultra alternative horde that works for expenses. My former employer during the 90's - a 55 year veteran of the commercial music business- had a very frequently mouthed mantra, "Why do they always treat the artist like shit!?" And it is more apt today than in the last 40 years. It is hard to tell where this is all going but it probably will get worse before it gets better.
But don't dispair too much. You have huge experience and a great depth of personal resources to be on the outs for long.