Using AMP: Navigating the Website

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LEFT SIDE: RESOURCE COLLECTIVE

WORLD ART DIRECTORY
A growing guide to arts resources of all kinds, all over the world, the World Art Directory is organized by location. Most countries include each of the following categories:
* AMP Members
* Country, State & Government Information
* Groups & Group Activities
* Spaces & Venues
* Festivals, Fairs & Event Listings
* Materials, Supplies & Services
* Centers & Foundations
* Galleries, Museums & Exhibition Venues
* Education
* The Business of Art
* Residencies, Exchange Programs & Living Situations

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WEB & WORLDWIDE
Web and Worldwide is a growing guide to arts resources that are internet-based, and includes the following categories:
* Opportunities
* Grants
* Groups
* Resources
* Services
* Projects
* Currency Conversion
* Entertaining Art Websites
* Interactive Art Play

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ART CLASSIFIEDS
AMPers login to post art classifieds under these categories:
* Assistance Needed
* Call for Participants
* Discussions
* Education & Networking
* Employment & Internships
* Opportunities

AMP ART
Images chosen at random from AMP's Global Gallery.

ART NEWS & MEDIA
AMP has linked to scores of art magazines and blogs worldwide. Read what’s happening in the world of art in these categories:
* Fine Arts
* Photography
* Film, Video & Digital
* Music
* Writing & Literary Journals
* Fashion
* Theatre
* Culture
* Crafts & Projects

And just for fun, here are some links to interesting Online Radio.

AUDIO ADVICE FORUM
Interviews with artists and art world professionals.

PLEASE DONATE
AMP has no institutional funding whatsoever, and is funded entirely from the Executive Director’s shallow pockets. Every donation really helps.

MY ACCOUNT
Click “my account,” then “edit” to make changes in your member profile.
Click “my inbox” to read your private messages.
Click on “my blog” and “my quotes” to moderate your blogs and quotes on AMP.

RIGHT SIDE: ARTISTS' MEETING PLACE

AMP COMMUNITY
Click on Members by Location to find AMP members who live in a certain location. Members are organized by country, city, and sometimes (in the Los Angeles area, where there are about 1,000 AMPers), by zip code.
Look at AMP’s Member Profiles to see the complete list of AMPer profiles, listed in reverse order of login (that is, last to login is first listed).
Read what AMP’s Featured Bloggers have to say.
Browse AMP’s Newsletter Archives to see what AMP has been doing since May 2006.
Look at AMP’s Featured Members to learn more about our community.
Click AMP Events to learn more about our in-person gatherings, which have taken place in Los Angeles, Berkeley, New York City, and Amsterdam.
Find AMP on MySpace.
Do a Time Zone Check to see what time it is anywhere in the world.
Search AMP by member profiles, user names, and content.

POST IMAGES, WORDS & SOUNDS
Post A Blog: post news about your activities, events, accomplishments. Share a poem or some lyrics. Write about anything that’s going on in your life. Share with the international AMP community.
Add An Image: upload your visual art, including paintings, photography, pen & ink, collage, pictures of your performances, and much more. Look here to see what categories already exist.
Add Audio: upload your music and other sounds - experimental noise or you reading a poem, for example - to AMP’s Sound Museum.
Post a Quote that you like - from yourself or anyone else.
Post An Art Classified Ad in the categories of Assistance Needed, Call for Participants, Discussions, Education & Networking, Employment & Internships, and Opportunities.

LOOK - THE LATEST
Have a look at the latest visual art submitted by AMPers, with the latest posted first. Click more to see everything.

GLOBAL GALLERY
Look: Images features AMP member art in these categories:
* Paintings
* Photography
* Pen & Ink
* Album Covers & Other Musical Manifestations
* AMP Animal Friends
* Body Paintings
* Cities
* Crafts
* Digital Media
* Fashion & Clothing Design
* Film Stills
* Graffiti
* Graphic Arts
* Instruments
* Jewelry
* Mixed Media
* Mosaic
* Our Performances
* Performance Art
* Sculpture
* Tattoos
* Woodworks
* AMP Spaces
* Featured Members
* Puppets & Other Alternate Bodies
* AMP Events
* Body of Art: jFerrari Gallery, March 15-April 12
Listen: Sound is AMP’s sound museum: songs and other sounds from the AMP community.
Read: Blogs takes you to all AMP member blogs, in reverse order of posting. Read for a diverse and interesting conversational overview of what’s happening in the lives of artists everywhere.
Read: Quotes is a gallery of quotes that AMPers like.

WHO'S ONLINE
How many members and visitors are online right now, and who exactly those members are. You can only see this if you’re logged in.

NEWEST MEMBERS
The last 5 new members to be approved.

AMP SOUNDS
A random listing of songs and other sounds submitted by AMPers.

READ - THE LATEST
The last 10 blogs submitted by AMPers.

RECENT COMMENTS
The last 10 comments made by one AMPer about another’s posting.