Arts Organizations
Jazz at the Station www.JazzAtTheStation.com
-Regional & National Arts Resources
Americans for the Arts representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
Arts Midwest connects the arts to audiences throughout the nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
American Memory is a gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu
The American Symphony Orchestra League provides leadership and service to American orchestras
Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters) brings performing artists and audiences together in every place and way imaginable.
The Center for Arts and Culture is an independent think tank that aims to broaden and deepen the national conversation on culture and cultural policies.
Community Arts Network (CAN) promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts.
Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive
CPANDA is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant
data on the arts & culture. It houses an archive of data sets from
studies on artists, arts organizations, audiences, funding & public
policy. You can find "quick facts about the arts" --
basic statistical data about the arts & culture including downloadable
graphics and essays addressing FAQs.
http://www.cpanda.org
Mid-America Arts Alliance was created to support and stimulate cultural activity in rural communities throughout mid-America. Based in the heartland, M-AAA now creates and manages regional, multi-regional, national, and international programs including traveling exhibitions, performing arts touring, and professional and community development. Programs include Meet the Composer, and Exhibits USA. http://www.maaa.org
The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) is the national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC is dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual, performing, media, and literary-arts communities. http://nadc.ucla.edu/
National Arts Education Association An organization that promotes art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership. NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization. www.naea-reston.org/
National Arts Education Research Center A number of informative research reports resulted from the New York University and the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) sites of the National Arts Education Research Center. Through co-funding by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Education beginning in 1987, the Center pursued studies on a wide variety of topics relevant to arts education. www.arts.gov/pub/
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. NASAA's mission is to advance and promote a meaningful role for the arts in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the United States. www.nasaa-arts.org
National Endowment for the Arts, an independent agency of the Federal government, was created by Congress in 1965 to encourage and support American art and artists. It does its work by awarding grants to nonprofit arts organizations in all fields as well as through its own leadership activities. www.nea.gov
National Endowment for the Humanities is also an independent agency
of the Federal government, was created by Congress in 1965 to encourage
and support American art and artists. It does its work by awarding grants
to nonprofit arts organizations in all fields as well as through its
own leadership activities. www.neh.gov
National Gallery of Art Online Tours houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. There are many exciting resources on their website. Resources include streaming slideshows, a web tour of the week, guides to the paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, works on paper, and architecture.
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts Provides service, advocacy and leadership for a diverse constituency of community arts education organizations located in urban, suburban and rural communities throughout the United States. The Guild currently has 317 member institutions serving more than 400,000 students through weekly instruction and tens of thousands more through exposure to a multitude of arts activities. www.nationalguild.org
The Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope, ambition, and degree of recognition. Through the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and artwork that we publish, we are striving to be the voice of the American heartland. http://www.usi.edu/SIR/literary.asp
US Department of Education: Arts Resources maintains an online library of arts learning resources in many disciplines. The links include resources from the Library of Congress, National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institutes, National Gallery of Art, National Park Services and many others. Topics include architecture lessons that explore Triumphs of the Baroque, concepts by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the floorplans of a Vieux-Carre Creole Townhome. The site includes many more resources on music, art history, architecture, and photography. www.ed.gov/free/s-arts.html
VSA arts VSA arts is an International organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organization offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts implemented primarily through our vast affiliate network in 39 states and the District of Columbia, collaborators in 10 states, and 70 international affiliates in 67 countries. VSA arts' programs now serve 4.3 million Americans and 1.3 million people in other parts of the world. www.vsarts.org
WESTAF the Western States Arts Federation, is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. Based in Denver, Colorado, WESTAF helps strengthen the financial, organizational and policy infrastructure of the arts by providing innovative programs and services to artists and arts organizations in the West and nationwide. WESTAF is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the state arts agencies of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming; private and corporate foundations; and individuals. www.westaf.org