Artist Resources - some free, some for a fee

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A & R Online
http://www.aandronline.com/
A & R Online calls itself the professional music industry tip sheet. Their claim is that they deal with major and independent record labels on a daily basis, connecting them directly with artists on a "street level." Tons of tips, including pointers on how to get record labels coming after you, instead of chasing them yourself.

Actipedia is an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism. It’s a place to read about, comment upon, and share experiences and examples of how activists and artists are using creative tactics and strategies to challenge power and offer visions of a better society.
http://actipedia.org/

Adobe Museum of Digital Media
http://www.adobemuseum.com/

The Arab Cinema Directory
http://www.acdir.net/
Cinema auteurs and people working in film in the Arab world.

Art & Education: announcements and news from top art and education institutions, distilled perspectives on degree programs in the arts, galleries of student exhibitions, video series curated by artists and thinkers, and a directory of over one thousand arts organizations worldwide.
http://www.artandeducation.net

Art & Education Papers archive, a new global platform for sharing and distributing research and knowledge in the field of contemporary art.
http://www.artandeducation.net/papers

Art Business
http://www.artbusiness.com/artists.html
Articles for Artists: Resources to Present, Promote, Market Your Art

Art Exchange
An online Texas, USA-based service for artists and buyers of art. Helps to sell art through listings, advertisings, e-marketing. Features a "search engine that allows you to easily retrieve available pieces by artist name, title, subject matter, style, medium, sizes, colors, keywords and budget."
http://www.art-exchange.com

Art Fair Info
info@artfairsinc.com
323.937.4659

Artaculous
Online artist networking.
http://artaculous.com/

Artguide
Artforum’s free directory to the international art world, listing art fairs, auctions, and current gallery and museum shows in more than 400 cities http://www.artforum.com/guide

Art in Context
From their website: "The library's Art in Context web site provides free public access to information that is added by curators, dealers, artists, writers and others from around the world. On the Web since 1995, now serving over 700,000 images per month and viewed by over 50,000,000 visitors, Art in Context is in the top 1% of the most linked-to sites on the Internet."
http://www.artincontext.com

Art Info
http://www.artinfo.com/

Art Is Moving!
http://www.artismovingnow.com/

Artists United for Health Care http://www.artistsunitedforhealthcare.org
Health care reform website. The website's goal is to enable artists to get directly involved in advocating for meaningful and real reform through sending letters to their Congressional representatives and by joining with other participating organizations who are working hard to effect change.

Artists-in-Residence, CH
network of residency programs
Pelzgasse 26
Aarau 5000
Switzerland
http://www.artists-in-residence.ch

Artline
From their website: "Established in 1995, artline®, a content and portal site, is the premier guide to fine art. Collectors, curators, and art historians interact with dealers and artists and benefit from the dealer’s knowledge, expertise, and their complete inventories."
http://www.artline.com

Artnet
Worldwide gallery listings, auctions, price database, market trends, online magazine
http://www.artnet.com

Art-Online
Gallery listings, mainly in Europe, a few in the USA.
http://www.art-online.org

ArtsBlogs
http://www.artsblogs.com/

Artschools.com
Art schools and colleges in the USA and worldwide
http://www.artschools.com/

Artslynx
http://www.artslynx.org/
Artslynx' mission is to provide direction to the best arts resources they can find on the internet. They offer links to theatre, dance, music, and much more.

Arts Net
http://www.artsnet.org

ArtVetting.com
http://www.artvetting.com
A resource for artists, collectors and curators, Artvetting.com will archive each group of work and over time create a critical mass of reviewed art, critically vetted by the people who are promoting, curating and showing contemporary art in today's market. The site will feature this growing collection alongside the reviews from art world professionals plus blog entries, comments from the artists selected, a featured artists section and information not only about how art world professionals view and consider new art but more importantly how artists can access this challenging and sometimes exclusive world.

Art World Dealers: The Leading Art and Antique Dealers of the World
From their catalog, which can also be accessed online: "Our aim is to inform those who are interested and involved in the world of art and antiques about the activities and specialities of more than 350 dealers from 15 countries." Countries include Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA.
http://www.artworlddealers.com

The Art World Demystified
Brainard Carey, Co-founder and Director of The Artworld Demystified, has been advising artists on all matters related to business, marketing and exhibitions for over 20 years.
http://www.yourartmentor.com/

Bambi Foundation
http://www.bambifoundation.com

The British Library's Humanities resources for research: Art websites - Architecture to Exhibition Venues:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/wider/artwebsite.html

*** Calendar of Biennials ***
Dates, curators, contacts of 20 biennials and triennials:
http://universes-in-universe.de/car/e-calendar.htm

California, USA State Librarian's Internet Index
http://lii.org/

CARD Association of Curators and Artists
Sinkulova 14
147 00 Prague 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 731 571 153
info@exhibitionsontour.org
http://www.exhibitionsontour.org
Over 100 individuals and 40 institutions listed.
Summary also in French, Spanish and German language.
The Exhibitions on Tour International Database (ETID) is an online database of art exhibitions available for travelling on loan to other exhibition spaces. The database can be used to find new interesting projects for your exhibition programme or to find additional venues for your exhibition. ETID aims to provide an informational forum for progressive institutions with long-term, high-quality exhibition programmes. The database is also open to interdisciplinary and experimental projects. We offer free listings for projects curated by independent curators, organized by emerging organizations, or selected by the ETID team.

Common Field
Visual arts organizing network.
http://commonfield.org/

Couchsurfing
Stay free on the couches of fellow travelers all over the world.
http://www.couchsurfing.com

Creative Divergents
http://creativedivergents.com/
Show your art online, competitions

Creative Time Reports
http://www.creativetimereports.org
Artists' analysis of timely issues from across the globe.

CrellTube
Aims to support filmmakers by connecting them with valuable opportunities. Lets filmmakers produce commercials for companies and distribute them through video sharing websites like YouTube, AOL and MySpace. You get paid for every view, click and/or sale that your video produces.
http://www.crelltube.com

Curating YouTube
http://www.curatingyoutube.net/
YouTube based video exhibits

Curators’ Network
http://www.curators-network.eu/
An online platform where emerging European cultural agents can connect and collaborate

DeviantArt
http://www.deviantart.com/
Show your art online.

The Dutch Art Institute a.k.a. DAI, a.k.a. DAI ROAMING ACADEMY, is an itinerant program that fosters a variety of praxes at the intersections of art and theory (both seen as un-disciplines), and invigorates (collective) thinking, researching, performing, curating, writing, voicing, making and publishing. DAI is acclaimed for its inventive modus operandi, its generous semi-public program and the transformative potentiality of its curriculum, developed in long time co-operation with a precise selection of imaginative cultural collectives/organisations as well as with individual practitioners and researchers at the forefront of artistic and intellectual inquiry, context, production and distribution.
https://dutchartinstitute.eu/

E-artnow
http://www.e-artnow.info/
An electronic information service distributing world- wide selected information related to contemporary visual arts. Our aim is to provide our +50.000 world-wide readers with interesting and relevant information. Each submitted announcement is carefully considered regarding artistic quality, relevance and CONTENT. We welcome artists, free-lance curators, all kinds of art institutions (museums, art centers, art schools), magazines, non-profit organizations as well as commercial galleries to use our service in order to announce, report, criticize and initiate new projects.

European Festivals
http://www.bugbog.com/festivals/european_festivals.html

Explore Talent
http://www.exploretalent.com/
Online auditions & jobs for actors, models, musicians, dancers (club & gogo), and crew; entertainer-based.

Film Independent
Digital Toolbox for Filmmakers
http://www.filmindependent.org

Fine Art Forum Resource Directory - on Museums and Art History:
http://www.msstate.edu/fineart_online/art-resources/museums.html

Fine Art Views Newsletter
http://canvoo.com/fineartviews/
Art Marketing Ideas and Straight Talk about Selling Art, Marketing, Inspiration & Fine Living

GarageBand.com
http://www.garageband.com
"Created by musicians, for musicians, GarageBand.com is here to help you advance your music career," says their website. You can submit songs to their ongoing contests, get written feedback on the songs you've written, get listenener ratings, and possibly get the exposure you need to "get discovered" by a major label.

GetSigned.com
http://www.getsigned.com/
"A place where aspiring artists of all kinds could find, in one convenient location, all the necessary tools needed for musical success." (from their site) There's a great collection of articles on music promotion, getting signed, music law, getting gigs and managing bands, as well as discounts on some really useful informational resources that they offer, discussion forums, and classified ads. Any musician could benefit from browsing through.

Grackle
http://www.grackleworld.com
Grackle is an online database of exhibitions available for tour. Curators may search the database for exhibitions by available floorspace, dates of availability, price, and most recent posts. Searching the database is free. To add an exhibition to the database, curators may purchase an annual membership that allows for multiple posts, or pay for a single post. Educational and non-profit institutions may receive discounts. Grackle provides a password-accessed template that facilitates quick uploading of images and relevant information about exhibitions. Curators can access their posts at any time to edit or add material. Additionally, they may e-mail posts as links to colleagues. Every month the Grackle team selects an artist to feature independent of the exhibitions on the database. A work by the featured artist appears on Grackle’s homepage. For more information about Grackle, please visit www.grackleworld.com or contact Regine Basha or Christopher K. Ho at info@grackleworld.com.

GYST Ink
Software and workshops and more for artists.
http://www.gyst-ink.com

Help 2 Succeed
A plethora of information and links to help you succeed in making a living in the fine arts.
http://www.help-2-succeed.com/

Human Hotel, a travel network for creatives
https://www.humanhotel.com

IACCCA - International Association of Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art
contact.iaccca@gmail.com
http://www.iaccca.com/

IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art
c/o Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Städtle 32, P.O. Box 370
FL-9490 Vaduz
http://www.iktsite.org

Independent Collectors
The first online community specifically targeted at collectors of contemporary art.
http://www.independent-collectors.com

Independent Media Center
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Index Art Services
http://indexartservices.com
contact@indexartservices.com
Administrative Services for Artists, Organizations, & Individuals
Index Art Services (IAS) is an online resource that provides artists with services and information to present their works to the public. Specializing in a variety of services including fundraising, business writing, marketing, design, and general administration, IAS assists artist in professionalizing their creative practice. IAS equips artists with the necessary tools to apply for grants, submit exhibition proposals, market exhibitions and performances, digitize their portfolio and contacts, and apply for jobs, fellowships, and residencies. IAS provides artists with professional tools to increase visibility, expand public dialogue and leverage financial support for their creative practices.

Invent Now
Resource for inventors, with workshops, programs, and more
http://www.invent.org/

The Joy of Shards
http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/
From their site, their "aim is to share an enthusiasm for mosaic art and provide a high quality, extensive online resource where visitors can learn about mosaic making and study examples in a wide range of styles and materials. There is also information on related aspects of tiles, ceramics and tessellations." Check out their excellent collection of mosaic galleries from locations all over the world.

Just Plain Folks
http://www.jpfolks.com/
Just Plain Folks is meant to be a way to make music community around the world, as well as help musicians in any way possible. They have chapters across the USA, members around the world, and conduct live music events where they have chapters. Featuring a fantastic set of advice forums, this is what they say about the site: "We are a community of over 40,000 Songwriters, Recording Artists, Music Publishers, Record Labels, Performing Arts Societies, Educational Institutions, Recording Studios and Engineers, Producers, Legal Professionals, Publicists and Journalists, Publications, Music Manufacturers and Retailers and about every other type of member of the Music Industry. We are glad to have you with us, and our motto is...We're all in this together!"

Kadmus Arts
Connect to festivals all over the world.
http://kadmusarts.com/

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
t 1-888-490-3530
info@lightspacetime.com
http://www.lightspacetime.com
Conducts monthly themed art competitions and art exhibitions for new and emerging artists on a worldwide basis.

Linkism.com
http://www.linkism.com/
Linkism is an online art directory which also offers online promotional tools for artists. Their goal is "to become the most popular, useful and easy to navigate directory of art on the Internet." Developed by and for artists, Linkism provides links to art and artists in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Their categories include listings for visual and fine arts, sculpture, graphic design, digital arts, illustration, photography, and body art (including tattoos, body piercing, and body painting); artists creating all of the above; and art galleries and museums, online galleries, resources and portfolios, equipment, art news, competitions, publications, educational information, criticism, and more.

The Listening Biennial
July-August
contact@listeningbiennial.net
http://listeningbiennial.net

Louisiana Channel
http://channel.louisiana.dk/
Hundreds of video interviews with artists.

MIP: Museum in Progress
exhibitions via alternative forms
https://www.mip.at/en/

Musician's Assistance
http://www.musicianassist.com/
Claims to feature:
1. All the information you need to put out and properly promote your own records.
2. All the information you need to book your own tours.
3. Record label, promoter, venue, and press contacts.
4. CD Manufacturers, Music Stores, Distributors (including Regional, National, International and Mail-Order), Independent and Major Labels --- all contained in huge databases- sorted by state and country.

MusicMoz
http://musicmoz.org/
"MusicMoz is a comprehensive directory of all things music, edited by volunteers. We list, and accept submissions of, music-related reviews, articles, factual information, biographies, and websites" (from their website). Kind of like a Wikipedia for music and musicians, which also includes music business resource information, computers, sound files, and other resources. You can really find a lot of information here.

Open Mikes: By Musicians, For Musicians
An excellent way to find open-mike performance spaces in the USA and Canada.
http://openmikes.org/

OtherNetwork
https://othernetwork.io
platform that connects independent art spaces through digital infrastructure

The Pauper
http://www.thepauper.com/
The Pauper calls itself "Internet for the Starving Artist," and "is a web portal for starving artists to promote and sell their work, network with others, and get the resources they need to succeed."

PhotographyNow.Net
Online photography gallery - for established photographers.
http://photography-now.net/

Playback
Social media network that welcomes anyone with a professional or personal interest in sound and sound recording.
http://playback.ning.com/

post, a participatory digital platform for global research
http://post.at.MoMA.org
post is a site for encounters between the established and the experimental, the historical and the emerging, the local and the global, the scholarly and the artistic, the formal and the informal. Adapting the attributes of an online journal, archive, exhibition space, and social-networking platform, post uses the non-hierarchical characteristics of the Web to spark in-depth explorations of the ways in which modernism is being redefined, and to link those topics to the ways in which artists and institutions are working today.

Printed Matter
Printed Matter, Inc. is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to publications made by artists. Recognized for years as an essential voice in increasingly diversified artworld conversations and debates, Printed Matter is dedicated to the examination and interrogation of the changing role of artists’ publications in the landscape of contemporary art.
195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011
T: 212 925 0325
F: 212 925 0464
http://printedmatter.org/

Protocinema is a cross-cultural, mission-driven art organization, commissioning and presenting site-aware art in Istanbul, New York, and elsewhere. We produce context-specific projects of the highest artistic quality that are accessible to everyone. Protocinema evokes empathy towards an understanding of difference, across regions through exhibitions, educational public programming, and mentorship. Protocinema maintains long-term relationships with artists nurturing sustained growth. Founded by Mari Spirito in 2011, Protocinema is a registered 501(c)3, free of “brick and mortar,” sites vary to respond both to global concerns and changing conditions on the ground.
http://www.protocinema.org

Prototype digital art platform
http://youaretheprototype.art

radiopapesse.org
almareproject.it
Facebook / Twitter / Instagram

Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. is a sci-fi audio novel in three episodes with video subtitles. Written and directed by ALMARE, it is curated by Radio Papesse, promoted in collaboration with Timespan and produced thanks to the support of the Italian Council, a program to promote Italian art by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Set in a future fictional society, the trilogy is an audio diary that follows the adventures of researcher Dorothea Ïesj as she extracts (and resells) sounds from the past. Thanks to a technology called E.C.H.O., it is possible to analyse and recover the sound waves that have been engraved on every surface over the centuries. The trilogy is inspired by pseudo-scientific theories developed in the 19th century, at the same time as the growing development of recording technologies. These theories included archaeoacoustics, which suggested the possibility of tracing acoustic phenomena of the past that remained inscribed in matter. Investigating the link between data capitalism, technology, and value creation, Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. reflects on the use of archaeological artifacts, archives, and memory as instruments of power and control.

Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. will be acquired by MUSEION Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bozen and will be presented at Errant Sound, Berlin (September 23, 2023); Sound Studies Lab, Copenhagen (September 26–27, 2023); MUSEION, Bozen (September 29, 2023); LOOP Fair, Barcelona; IUAV University, Venice (March 9, 2024); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Cinema Massimo, Turin; Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale, Milan; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome.

Keep posted about the public program.

The trilogy will be accompanied by the publication of a podcast produced by Radio Papesse together with ALMARE and distributed by NERO Editions. The podcast will feature authors, musicians, scholars and artists, including Reem Shadid, Juliette Volcler, Steve Goodman, Jathan Sadowski, Holger Schulze, Giada Dalla Bontà, Brandon LaBelle and others.

In spring 2024, an exhibition at Timespan, Helmsdale (Scotland) will close the cycle.

ALMARE is a collective dedicated to contemporary practices that use sound as an expressive medium. ALMARE works between artistic and curatorial practices, through writing, research, sound and music production, concert organisation, performance lectures, talks and exhibitions. ALMARE is part of the network project The Listeners with Metamorfosi Notturne and Cripta 747.

Radio Papesse
webradio and online audio archive devoted to contemporary art
https://radiopapesse.org

Radio Submit
Wimberley Texas & Moab Utah
512-938-3461
http://www.radiosubmit.com
Free broadcast quality music download service for Radio Stations and DJ's.

Recycle Match
2421 Tangley Drive, Ste. 106
Houston, Texas 77005
info@recyclematch.com
713-581-0466
http://www.recyclematch.com/
RecycleMatch is an Online Market for Transforming Commercial Waste Into Value. Our web based marketplace provides a solution to reduce costs and environmental impact by converting waste streams from one company into useful materials for another company. By uncovering hidden value, RecycleMatch creates new cost savings and potential revenues for all parties while enabling supply chain solutions that can benefit the environment and your sustainability initiatives.

Res Artis
Keizersgrcht 462 sous
1016 GE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0) 20 612 6600
office@resartis.org
http://www.resartis.org/
Artist residency network. From their website, "Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 200 centers and organisations in 50 countries worldwide that offer to international artists facilities and conditions conducive for making art. Currently members of Res Artis reside in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Roumania, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA."

Rhinobook
Provides art contest information, art news, art gallery and artist biography.
http://www.rhinobook.org/

Songsalive!
A non-profit organization dedicated to the nurturing, support and promotion of songwriters and composers worldwide.
http://www.songsalive.org/

Sound Implant
Sound Implant is a LABOR for research & creation in the field of acoustic - electronic music, sound design and generative - interactive art in general. It offers SONIC SOLUTIONS for every kind of expression that needs a musical complement like dance, sound installations, cinema, theatre or internet. Sound Implant is also a web based RECORD LABEL & a place for anyone who wants to exchange informations and ideas about these topics.
http://www.soundimplant.com/

Tibet Art
Database of Tibetan art holdings in public and private collections, including links to relevant websites.
http://www.tibetart.com

time/bank
The e-flux time/bank is a platform where artists, curators, writers and other people in our field, can exchange time and skills — help each other get things done without using money. In a more idealistic way, the time/bank can become a place where certain types of actions and ideas, that seem to have no value in our market-driven society, can gain a sense of worth.
http://www.e-flux.com/timebank

Trans Artists
Cultural exchange and residency information
Keizersgracht 462 sous
1016 GE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0) 20 612 7400
info@transartists.nl
http://www.transartists.nl

Transport Farin
Based in France, international art transport service.
http://www.tr-farin.com

Tropical Papers
Digital platform for reflection on art, architecture, design, and scientific research, giving visibility to works and projects of artists and cultural practitioners focused on disciplines from and in the tropics.
http://tropicalpapers.org/

TuneCore: Digital Music Distribution
http://tunecore.com/
TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns from digital distribution.

Ubu
http://www.ubu.com/
Says the site, "UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts."

Art and Art History websites from the UCLA Arts Library:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/arts/websites/wwwart.htm

Unbound
Live Art and Performance Publishing and Distribution
An online shop for books, dvds and limited edition artworks. Unbound specialises in publications and artefacts related to groundbreaking and risk-taking contemporary art practices.
Here you will find the essential reading on all things live: from experimental theatre to body art, from the history of performance art to performance theory, from digital performance to art activism.
http://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/

Unesco, International Fund for the Promotion of Culture
Offers bursaries for artists to participate in residencies.
1 Rue Miollis
Paris Cedex 15, 75732
France
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ifpc

Videonale X
video art
https://x.videonale.org/en/

Virtual Festivals
http://www.virtual-festivals.com/
Rock music and dance festivals. UK-Focused International.

Big Whistle Music Ltd.
On-line whistle shop; based in the UK, sells globally. Extensive range.
PO Box 23, Accrington
Lancashire, England BB5 5GX
tel/fax: 44 (0) 1282-77-1068
sales@bigwhistle.co.uk
http://www.bigwhistle.co.uk

The Whole 9
http://www.thewhole9.com/
Online place for all creative professionals to find and post events, happenings, exhibits, etc.

Without A Box
For filmmakers and film festivals. Very cool.
https://www.withoutabox.com/

Women's Music Groups and Websites
http://www.wifp.org/DWM/Music.html
List of women's music groups and websites in the US, featuring festivals, alliances, institutes, and more. Part of the Directory of Women's Media, which is itself a part of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press in Washington, DC - http://www.wifp.org

WOOLOO
http://www.wooloo.org/
Provides opportunities for artists to join projects all over the world.

Worldwide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/