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Visual Arts Resources

Funding

State Arts Agencies/Regional Arts Organizations
Funding for individuals and organizations.

Foundation Center
The leading web site on philanthropy serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.

Nonprofit Finance Fund
Loans for facilities projects and for other growth-related needs and planning assistance.

NYFA Source
The largest national database of information on grants, awards, services, and publications for artists in all disciplines.

Service Organizations

Alliance of Artists' Communities
2311 E. Burnside Street
Portland, OR 97214
503-797-6988
www.artistcommunities.org
email: aac@artistcommunities.org

American Craft Council
72 Spring Street, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10012
212-274-0630
www.craftcouncil.org
email: library@craftcouncil.org

Art Dealers Assn. of America
575 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-940-8590
www.artdealers.org
email: ADAA@artdealers.org

Artjobonline (a service of WESTAF)
543 Champa St., Ste. 220
Denver, CO 80202
www.artjob.org
888-JOBS-232

College Art Association
275 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-691-1051
www.collegeart.org
email: nyoffice@collegeart.org

Craft Emergency Relief Fund
P.O. Box 838
Montpelier, Vermont 05601
802-229-2306
www.craftemergency.org
email: info@craftemergency.org

Getty Grant Program
1200 Getty Center Drive, #800
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-440-7320
www.getty.edu/grants

Glass Art Society
1305 Fourth Avenue, Suite 711
Seattle, WA 98101
206-382-1305
www.glassart.org
email: info@glassart.org

International Sculpture Center
14 Fairgrounds Rd., Ste. B
Hamilton, NJ 08619-3447
609-689-1051
www.sculpture.org
email: isc@sculpture.org

Marie Walsh Sharp Art Foundation
830 North Tejon Street, Suite 120
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719-635-3220
http://www.sharpeartfdn.org

National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts
PO Box 158, 668 W. 10th
Bandon, OR 97411
541-347-7505
www.nceca.net
email: office@nceca.net

New York Foundation for the Arts
NYFA Source (not just for NY-based artists)
www.nyfa.org/
800-232-2789

Society for North American Goldsmiths
(an online resource for jewelers, designers and metalsmiths)
http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/infocentral

Society for Photographic Education
PO Box 2811
Daytona Beach, FL 32120-2811
www.spenational.org
email: SocPhotoEd@aol.com


Sources for Helpful Publications

"Artists' Communities, A Directory of Residencies in the United States Offering Time and Space for Creativity" (2000) order through:
Alliance of Artists'Communities
2325 E. Burnside, Portland, OR 97214
503-797-6988
http://www.artistcommunities.org

Americans for the Arts (website lists several publications)
1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, 12th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-371-2830
http://www.artsusa.org/

Arts Extension Service (website lists several publications)
University of Massachusetts
Division of Continuing Education
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-2360
http://www.umass.edu/aes/

"The Directory of Corporate & Foundation Givers" (available in most public libraries)
published by:
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue/16th Street
New York, NY 10003-3076
212-620-4230 or 800-424-9836
http://fdncenter.org (free grantseeking tutorial)