Related Links

	Minnesota State Arts Board
Minnesota State Arts Board The state agency dedicated to enriching the cultural lives of all Minnesotans. Many more arts links and resources.
	Absolutearts.com
Part of World Wide Arts Resources, the website is a small, privately-run arts site that offers news on arts events and gallery openings. It enhances the art clientīs experience and includes a comprehensive contemporary art online portfolio program.
	Accessible Arts
Kansas City-based Accessible Arts works with educators, caregivers, organizations, and institutions such as museums and galleries to facilitate making the arts accessible to and participatory for children and adults with disabilities.
	Aid to Artisans
A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating economic opportunities for craftspeople in developing nations.
	Alliance of Artistsī Communities
The Alliance is a national service organization that supports the field of artistsī communities and residency programs through a variety of activities, including encouraging collaboration among members of the field, providing leadership on field issues, setting professional standards, raising the visibility of artists communities, and promoting philanthropy in the field.
	American Alliance for Theatre and Education
The mission of the Alliance is to promote standards of excellence in theater and theater education; to connect artists, educators, researchers and scholars; and to provide opportunities for members to learn, exchange, expand, and diversify their practices, audiences, and perspectives.
	American Art Therapy Association
An organization of professionals dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing. AATAīs mission is to serve its members and the general public by providing standards of professional competence and developing and promoting knowledge in, and of, the field of art therapy.
	American Association of Museums
Founded in 1906, AAM is dedicated to promoting excellence within the museum community through advocacy, professional education, information exchange, accreditation, and guidance on current professional standards of performance.
	American Craft Council
A national, nonprofit educational organization that works to further the interests of artists active in the media of clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood, and other materials. The Council offers partial financial support to nonprofit organizations for projects that advance the understanding and appreciation of crafts in America.
	American Dance Therapy Association
Founded in l966, the American Dance Therapy Association works to establish and maintain high standards of pro- fessional education and competence in the field of dance/movement therapy. ADTA stimulates communication among dance/movement therapists and members of allied professions through publication of the ADTA Newsletter, the American Journal of Dance Therapy, monographs, bibliographies, and conference proceedings.
	American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and
AIC, a national membership organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving art and historic artifacts for the future, advances the practice and promotes the importance of the preservation of cultural property by coordinating the exchange of knowledge, research, and publications.
	American Theater Arts for Youth
For thirty-one years, TAFY has presented professional, curriculum-related theater for children of all ages in theaters across the country. The organization performs its original musicals to over 1.4 million students annually, produces study guides for each of its productions, and offers workshops and residencies for artist-educators.
	Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy organization with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for participation in and appreciation of the arts through increasing public and private sector support for the arts; ensuring that every American child has access to a high-quality arts education; and strengthening communities through the arts.
	Artdaily
An online newspaper listing international art fairs, galleries, museum news, and an online photogallery.
	Artnet Online Art Magazine
An online art marketplace with a gallery network of over 1000 galleries and over 90,000 works by over 18,000 international artists. Artnet Magazine is a guide to the art market with news, reviews, and features by art writers and critics.
	Arts & Culture Indicators in Community Building Project
An experimental effort by the Urban Institute in collabor- ation with the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership and the Rockefeller Foundation to develop arts and culture neighborhood indicators for use in local planning, policy- making, and community building. The Web site includes descriptions of the concepts, research framework, and current activities of the project.
	Arts Education Partnership
AEP, a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic, and government organizations, works to promote the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of children and in the improvement of Americaīs schools. The Partnership includes more than 140 organiza- tions as well as state and local partnerships focused on influencing education policies and practices to promote quality arts education.
	Arts Extension Service
Established in 1973 as a program of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, AES is a national nonprofit arts service organi- zation that develops the arts in communities through the arts with continuing professional education for arts managers, artists, and civic leaders.
	Arts for Learning
Arts for Learning is an online educational resource for teachers and teaching artists at the K-12 level to use in planning, creating, and conducting classroom activities that enrich student learning in the arts.
	Arts International
New York City-based Arts International is an independent, contemporary arts organization dedicated to the develop- ment and support of global cultural interchange in the arts and to educating audiences and the public about the richness and diversity of the arts worldwide. AI works in three primary areas: creation of projects and partnerships that help to identify, develop, and circulate new work crossing borders worldwide; development of advised funds and re-granting programs that provide support to artists and arts organizations engaged in international work; and use of new technologies and media to share information, reach new audiences, educate and serve the public, and create connections among artists and cultural organizers around the world.
	Arts Journal
A free daily digest of arts and cultural news culled from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines, and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.
	ArtsEdge
ArtsEdge, an online resource center, offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment. ArtsEdge supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum to enhance the K-12 experience.
	Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon
CAMT was established to investigate existing and emerging information and communication technologies, and to stimulate thinking about the practical application of such technologies for arts managers. The Centerīs services include eGrant, a custom tool for funding agencies that wish to offer Web-based grant applications to their constituents; technology needs assessment; and Web site development and hosting.
	Coalition for Inclusive Performing Arts
The Coalition for Inclusive Performing Arts, a new membership organization located at the National Arts and Disability Center on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, works to foster the full participation and involvement of individuals with all types of disabilities in drama and theater activities.
	Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network promotes information exchange, research, and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts. CAN is designed and managed by Art in the Public Interest, a national nonprofit organiza- tion, in partnership with the Virginia Tech Department of Theatre Artsī Consortium for the Study of Theatre and Community.
	Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Established in 1967, CLMP serves independent publishers of fiction, poetry, and prose by providing direct service to literary publishers.
	Culturelink
A network of networks established by UNESCO and the Council of Europe in 1989 to promote regional, inter- regional, and international research projects relating to culture.
	European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy
ERICarts, an independent multinational research body com- prised of more than seventy experts and institutions from thirty countries, examines European issues through a pro- gram of comparative research on cultural policy and media developments, cultural education, and various professional artistic fields.
	Getty Conservation Institute
The Getty Conservation Institute, a program of the Los Angeles-based J. Paul Getty Trust, engages in activities dedicated to furthering conservation practice and education in order to enhance and encourage the preserva- tion, understanding, and interpretation of the visual arts -- broadly interpreted to include objects, collec- tions, architecture, and sites.
	Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts, a nonprofit membership organiza- tion comprising private, family, and community foundations, corporate foundations and giving programs, and nonprofit organizations that make arts grants, strengthens the field of private-sector arts grantmaking by improving communi- cation, information exchange, and peer learning within the field as a whole; increasing the presence of arts philanthropy within the broader foundation and policymaking communities; and supporting individual arts grantmakers in increasing their effectiveness and capacity to meet their objectives.
	Hands On
Founded in 1982, New York-based Hands On is dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and cultural events for the deaf and hard of hearing community.
	Institute of Museum and Library Services
Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 as an independent agency of the federal government, IMLS provides funding through four grant programs (State Library Agencies, Native American Library Services, Native Hawaiian Library Services, and National Leadership Grants for Libraries) to all types of libraries to improve access to information through technology, to ensure equity of access, and to help bring resources to underserved audiences.
	International Council of Museums
ICOM, a worldwide network of museum professionals in all disciplines and specializations, is dedicated to the development of museums and the museum profession and operates globally for the preservation of cultural heritage.
	International Society for the Performing Arts
An international membership organization of executives and directors of concert and performance halls, festivals, per- forming companies, and artist competitions; government cultural officials; artistsī managers; and others with a professional involvement in the performing arts.
	International Theatre Institute
ITI, an international non-governmental organization founded in Prague in 1948 by UNESCO and the international theater community, has national centers in approximately ninety countries and is UNESCOīs principal NGO partner in the field of the performing arts, where it works to increase cooperation among theater people, increase public awareness of the need to take artistic creation into con- sideration in the area of development, and contribute to the consolidation of peace and friendship between peoples.
	Minnesota Artists Online
n online database of Minnesota artists from all disciplines. It offers to Minnesota-based artists a central gathering place on the web, and will grow to become a marketplace and community hub. It offers the public a new way to explore art and get to know artists. In addition to providing artists with a web page containing images and information, mnartists.org will soon provide news and features about the local arts scene from a variety of sources. The McKnight Foundation (http://www.mcknight.org/) partnered with the Walker Art Centerīs New Media Initiatives group (http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html) to develop mnartists.org.
	Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA) is a statewide arts advocacy organization that organizes the arts community to lobby the Minnesota State Legislature and Congress. Our mission is to ensure opportunity for all people to have access to and involvement in the arts
	Minnesota Council on Foundations
A wonderful resource for news & information on Minnesota grantmaking & philanthropy. Links to MN grantmakers.
	National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
Founded in 1980, NAMAC works to further the media arts in all its forms -- film, video, audio, and online/multimedia arts -- and to promote the cultural contributions of indi- vidual media artists.
	National Arts and Disability Center
The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC), a project of the University of California at Los Angelesī Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities, is a national clearinghouse for information, technical assistance, and referrals in the field of arts and disability.
	National Arts Strategies
National Arts Strategies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping strengthen arts organizations through the development of managerial and financial skills.
	National Assembly of States Arts Agencies
NASAA, a membership organization of the nationīs state and jurisdictional arts agencies, works to advance and promote a meaningful role for the arts in the lives of individuals, families, and communities by empowering state arts agencies through strategic assistance that fosters leadership, enhances planning and decision-making, and increases their resources.
	National Association of Artistsī Organizations
NAAO provides advocacy and technical assistance to the primary creators of new, emerging, and experimental work in all disciplines, including the visual, performing, literary, and interdisciplinary arts.
	National Association of Drama Therapy
Established in 1979, the National Association for Drama Therapy works to establish and uphold high standards of professional competence and ethics among drama therapists; to develop criteria for training and registration; to sponsor publications and conferences; and to promote the profession of drama therapy through information and advocacy.
	National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations
The National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations, an alliance of professional associations dedicated to the advancement of the arts as therapeutic modalities, repre- sents over 8,000 individual members of six creative arts therapies associations, including art therapy, dance/movement thearpy, drama therapy, music therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama.
	National Endowment for the Arts
Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts provides national recognition and support to significant projects of artistic excellence, thereby pre- serving and enhancing the nationīs diverse cultural heritage. In its almost forty years of existence, the agency has awarded more than 113,000 grants to arts organizations and artists in all fifty states and six U.S. jurisdictions.
	National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
The Guild, a national service organization representing a diverse constituency of nonprofit, non-degree granting institutions in urban, inner-city, suburban, and rural communities throughout the United States, promotes broad access to high-quality arts education designed to meet community needs.
	NYFA Current
NYFA Current, an e-newsletter published by the New York Foundation for the Arts, features updates on social, economic, philosophical, and political issues affecting the arts and culture, as well as information about upcoming events and funding and job opportunities in the arts.
	Resources and Counseling for the Arts
An arts service organization that provides affordable business and management information and training to inde- pendent artists and nonprofit arts organizations with an eye to improving their professional competence.
	Springboard for the Arts
Offers workshops to artists and administrators, provide low-interest loans for entrepreneurial arts projects, small grants to help artists meet emergency expenses, provide free Internet access, along with books, pamphlets, and other informational materials in our comfortable Resource Center.
	Survivors Art Foundation
The Survivors Art Foundation in Westhampton, New York, is committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications, and development of employment skills.
	Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators who believed that writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing, T&W brings writers and educators together to explore the connections between writing and reading literature.
	The Foundation Center
An online guide to philanthropy.
	The Perpich Center for Arts Education
A state agency unlike any other. It is charged by the Minnesota Legislature to bring the arts into all K-12 education. Its mission is innovative public education, centered in the arts. With over 13 years of effective leadership, the Center is held up nationwide as an example of what is possible in the field of arts and education.
	United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
UNESCO was established in 1945 to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations in the areas of education, science, culture, and communication. Today, UNESCO seeks to foster a social and legal environment that is conductive to creative activity and critical thinking in all its forms, and encourages both individual creativity, with its roots in traditional or popular culture, and industrial creativity, which draws its force from social and economic institutions that stimulate market activity and innovation.
	VH1 Save the Music Foundation
The VH1 Save the Music Foundation serves elementary school children of all backgrounds by working to restore music programs in our public schools. The foundation does not give grants to schools or school districts, but instead provides instruments to eligible schools.
	Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Established in 1969, New York City-based Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts works to help the arts community understand and deal with its legal problems. The VLANY Web site pro- vides information on the groupīs educational and advocacy work, as well as a schedule of upcoming seminars, news & events updates, and contact info for a legal advice hotline
	VSA Arts Connection
VSA, a nonprofit educational affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., creates opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organizationīs programs are implemented through a network of local, state, and national organiza- tions, including educational and cultural institutions, arts agencies, associations for disabled people, and health and rehabilitation organizations.
	Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
Founded in 1981, the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, the first and only national park for the performing arts, provides arts-in- education services for children ages 3-5 and their teachers and families through the disciplines of drama, music, and movement.