Resources for Artists

Arts Advocacy Organizations
  • Actor's Fund The Actors Fund is a nonprofit, national human services organization that helps entertainment and performing arts professionals in theater, film, music, opera, television and dance through a broad spectrum of social, health, employment, and housing progra
  • Americans for the Arts Nationally based program for arts advocacy and public awareness of the arts. Includes National Arts Education site. Online Field Directory for searching all arts organizations.
  • Art Deadline The art world’s most comprehensive and accessed source for income and exhibition opportunities. Enjoy real-time access to an extensive and ever growing resource of local, national, and international announcements, with comprehensive descriptions and dire
  • Art Promote-Art and Culture Online Explore thousands of art galleries, museums and artists from around the world. Browse by subject, medium, movement, nationality and more.
  • Arts and Business Council Founded in 1965, and is devoted to stimulating partnerships between the arts and business that benefit both sectors and the communities they serve. In 1980 the Council began expanding some services to serve the entire country.
  • Arts for LA Arts for LA is an arts advocacy organization working to strengthen the public value of arts and arts education in the 88 municipalities and 80 school districts in LA County.
  • Calicornia Alliance for Arts Education The CAAE promotes, supports,and advocates visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California schools. It also has an online arts education directory.
  • California Arts Advocates The California Arts Advocates works on behalf of artists, arts organizations and millions of people that attend museums, galleries, and performances each year.
  • California Arts Council The mission of the CAC is to make available and accessible quality art reflecting all of California’s diverse cultures; to support the state’s broad economic, educational, and social goals through the arts; to provide leadership for all levels of the arts
  • California Association of nonprofits California Association of Nonprofits (CAN) is a statewide membership network, creating sector-wide responses to the important issues facing nonprofit organizations and providing valuable resources and tools that empower nonprofits to achieve their mission
  • California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc. a nonprofit tax-exempt service organization founded in 1974 which provides lawyer referrals, dispute resolution services, educational programs and publications to artists of all disciplines and arts organizations.
  • Center for Cultural Innovation The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) helps self-employed artists, small arts businesses and the nonprofit arts sector start , manage and grow their own businesses.
  • Clickinks Art takes many forms as it’s affected by its time and place in history, the cultures it touches, and the technology with which humans express themselves. From ancient cave drawings to the art of ecology and space, the many forms of art are unique and cons
  • Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) CERF seeks to strengthen and sustain the careers of independent artists by advocating for artists, offering business training programs, and organizing emergency relief efforts. Focusing on helping an artist reclaim his or her specialty as soon as possible
  • Cultural Affairs Division, City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs supports the arts & culture in Pasadena. It also promotes Pasadena in Southern California and nationally as a center of American cultural history as well as a vibrant arena for the creation of new art and film.
  • Dance / USA Advances the art form of dance by addressing the needs, concerns and interests of the professional dance community.
  • Flintridge Center Flintridge Foundation is committed to nourishing individualism, honoring diversity in society and nature, supporting creativity, and promoting just and cooperative partnerships so that human beings may evolve more effectively toward wholeness and the natu
  • LA County Arts Commission The mission of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission is to foster excellence, diversity, vitality and accessibility of the arts in the County of Los Angeles.
  • Natonal Endowment for the Arts Established in 1965 to foster, preserve, and promote excellence in the arts, to bring art to all Americans, and to provide leadership in arts education. An independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation’s largest annual funder o
  • Sweet Relief Musicians Fund Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.
  • Theater Communications Group To strengthen, nurture, and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre.
  • Visual and Performing Arts Education The California Department of Education provides assistance to implement visual and performing arts education programs, kindergarten through grade twelve.
Arts Publications And Blogs