www.artnet.com
artnet is the place to buy, sell and research fine art online. Our online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,200 galleries in over 250 cities worldwide, more than 100,000 works by over 25,000 artists from around the globe. The Network serves dealers and art buyers alike by providing a survey of the market and its pricing trends, as well as the means to communicate instantly, inexpensively and globally. Other key services include artnet Magazine, the insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and features by renowned writers in the art community and the Price Database. artnet’s Price Database is the most comprehensive color illustrated archive of fine art auction results worldwide. Representing auction results from over 500 international auction houses since 1985, the Price Database covers more than 2.9 million artworks by over 180,000 artists, ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art.
www.artomi.org
Omi International Arts Center works to further communication and exchange among writers, musicians, visual artists and dancers by offering international working residencies in a peaceful country setting. Omi advances the scope of traditional artists' retreats by introducing our residents to gallerists, publishers, critics, agents, curators and collectors who help them cultivate valuable career-networking opportunities.
www.creative-capital.org
Creative Capital, a New York City-based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with multi-faceted financial aid and promotional support throughout the life of each Creative Capital project.
www.cueartfoundation.org
CUE Art Foundation's mission is to provide a substantial, ongoing transformation in the careers of accomplished but still under-recognized artists. By helping these artists make a successful transition to a sustainable career in art, CUE will increase the diversity of voices and styles contributing to the contemporary art scene.
www.enfoco.org
En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures, primarily U.S. residents of Latino, African and Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and the Pacific. For over 30 years, it has been in the forefront of documenting the artistic journeys created by artists often overlooked by the mainstream art world. Through our visual arts programs, including Nueva Luz photographic journal, artists are free to explore or reinvent cultural traditions, challenge preconceived notions, and engage audiences in a manner that honors all.
www.KHNCenterfortheArts.org
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers an average of 38 2, 4, 6 or 8 week long residencies per year to writers, visual artists and composers worldwide. The newly renovated Center, inspired by the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in the historic Missouri River town of Nebraska City. Each apartment has a balcony and shares the use of three private landscaped courtyards. Residents are provided with free housing and studio space, internet access and a $100/week stipend. Deadlines are March 1st for the following July - December and September 1st for the following January - June. Visit the web site for an application and complete guidelines.
www.instrumenta.org
Instrumenta Oaxaca and the State Government of Oaxaca call for participants for the Instrumenta Oaxaca Verano 2007, an Academic-Artistic Musical exchange program that will run from July 30 through August 11, 2007. Students and teachers will interact during two weeks in workshops. The goal of the program is musical specialization.
www.mfta.org
Materials for the Arts provides 3150 arts programs with the things they need to prosper and endure. They gather materials from companies that no longer need them, and distribute them to artists and educators that do. In the process, they remove hundreds of tons from the New York City sanitation system. They help artists realize their visions, provide students with a richer educational experience, and furnish businesses with a simple and efficient way to enhance the cultural life of their city.
www.nyfa.org
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) helps artists turn inspiration into any art by giving more money and support to individual artists and arts organizations than any other comparable institution in the U.S. Their goal is to provide the time and resources for the creative mind and the artistic spirit to think, work, and prosper.
www.skowheganart.org
Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists. Neither a “school” in the traditional sense nor a “retreat,” the program seeks to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for artistic creation and interaction by providing a concentrated period of work, created with the support and critical assistance of a distinguished faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists. Skowhegan draws its vitality from the talent and energy of the participants, and the community they create. Founded by artists, and still governed by artists for artists, the program provides an atmosphere in which participants are encouraged to work and explore free of the expectations of the marketplace and academia.
www.vermontstudiocenter.org
Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is now the largest and most international artists' and writers' Residency Program in the U.S. Each year VSC hosts 600 outstanding emerging and mid-career painters, sculptors, installation artists, printmakers, photographers, poets, and writers (50 per month) from across the country and around the world. VSC provides 4 to 12 week Residencies on an award-winning 30 building campus in Johnson, Vermont, one of the most scenic and pristine parts of America. In 2005, VSC hosted Residents from 44 different countries and awarded $1,400,000 in 200 Full Fellowships and 300 Partial Fellowships to make their participation possible.
www.yaddo.org
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of two or three persons. They are selected by panels of other professional artists without regard to financial means. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board, and studio.
