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Free website to provide info and money management skills.
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Supports musicians with legal issues, health and pension benefits and provides resources and networking opportunities.
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American Craft was created by The Rosen Group to provide American and Canadian artists with guidance to grow their business and compete in the global marketplace.
Address: 3000 Chesnut Ave., Ste. 304 Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (440) 889-2933
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A national nonprofit organization that works to advance the arts in America by educating communities, generating more public/private sector resources and building individual appreciation of the arts.
Address: 1000 Vermont Avenue NW, 6th Floor Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (212) 371-2830
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ASCAP is a membership organization providing licensing and distribution representation and distributes royalties for copyrighted works specifically for composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers.
Phone: (800) 95-ASCAP
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This is a free site for visual artists and designers. It includes an online forum, job board, school listing and opportunities for rating works and employers.
Address: 799 Market Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94103
E-mail: info@artbistro.com
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ArtBizCoach.com is for emerging and established artists searching for promotional assistance.
Phone: (303) 273-5904
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| Craft, Design, Media, Visual, Literature
Art Farm’s mission is to support artistic vision, which may be impractical, obscure, and independent of commercial recognition—where failing is no less welcomed than succeeding. To offer artists, writers, performers, and others: studios, time, and resources for pursuing their range of expression, for experimenting, for developing projects, but most of all, for distilling the promise and potential of their creative enterprise, while working and living in a rural environment. They offer an artist and writer residency.
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A health insurance resource for artists and people in the entertainment industry. It identifies coverage options and helps members of the visual and performing arts community enroll in them.
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Helping musicians and music entrepreneurs create sustainable careers. It offers research and articles on a variety music and business careers including an online help center, forums and videos pertaining to all aspects of the music business.
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The Artist Management Resource was launched in August 2007 by the Indie Managers Association as a central point of information and resources for both artist managers and self-managed artists. The music-oriented website lists definitions of roles, links to resources, helpful articles and an Artist Management Manual for purchase.
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ArtistShare, founded by Brian Camelio, is a platform that connects creative artists with fans in order to share the creative process and fund the creation of new artistic works. ArtistShare created the Internet's first fan funding platform.
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A program of Americans for the Arts, this site has practical tips, creative ideas, and best practices to save time, reduce costs, and improve your marketing results.
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The Arts Resource Network provides tools and information to help artists, organizations and communities thrive. A service of the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Affairs.
Address: 700 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 1766 PO Box 94748 Seattle, WA 98124
E-mail: arts.resources@seattle.gov
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Artstaxinfo.com is a service of Riley & Associates, P.C., based out of Massachusetts. In addition to a reference section, and blog, it offers discipline-specific information for "actors, directors and performers," "musicians and singers," "writers" and "visual artists."
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Making the art world accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
Artsy.net is a resource for students, teachers, art enthusiasts, curators and collectors. Artsy offers a variety of additional ways to learn about art and design, and its Art Genome Project maps the characteristics (“genes” as they call them) that connect artists, artworks, architecture, and design objects across history. There are currently over 1,000 characteristics in The Art Genome Project, including art historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities.
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| Media, Literature, Theatre
The Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR) is a not-for-profit organization of qualified literary agents and dramatic representatives of authors, dramatists and other creators and owners of intellectual property. AAR has three prime objectives:(1) to keep agents informed of changing conditions in publishing, the theater, the motion picture and television industries and related fields (2) to encourage cooperation among literary organizations (3) to assist agents in representing the interests of their author-clients.To qualify for AAR an agent must meet professional standards specified in the organization's by-laws and agree to subscribe to the AAR canon of ethics.
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A national nonprofit service organization that works to create new jobs and build new opportunities and audiences for writers.
Address: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 993-4301
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Bankrate, Inc. is an aggregator of financial rate information, offering a depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Bankrate.com provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
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The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art offers residencies and exhibition opportunities. Their commitment to the belief that exceptional talent deserves to be supported is "achieved by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and a monthly stipend to artists who are awarded residencies. These artists come from around the world to work within a supportive community of like-minded people."
Address: 724 South 12th Street, Omaha, NE 68102
Phone: (402) 341-7130
Email: info@bemiscenter.org