Museums

If you are interested in submitting your work for review, please see Aldrich website for procedures and guidelines. If your work is appropriate for future exhibition, your materials may be retained for consideration.

This highly acclaimed reference book presents a comprehensive overview of the legal issues faced by anyone working in the visual arts. The narrative text is arranged into twenty-four chapters covering: copyright, contracts, censorship, moral rights, sales (by artist, gallery, or agent), taxation, estate planning, museums, collecting, and grants. The book suggests basic strategies, gives information to help with further action, and contains many sample legal forms and contracts. This edition is a complete revision, providing not only updated legal information, but also covering the ever-increasing importance of new media and electronic rights.

BEGINNING 2007 AVISO WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT (VIA EMAIL AND ON THE WEBSITE). VISIT http://www.aam-us.org/aamlatest/aamnotes/1106-email-aviso-update.cfm FOR MORE INFORMATION. Aviso is a monthly newsletter that provides up-to-date information about the museum field, as well as listings on employment ads, goods, and services for the museum professional.

(11 issues) Every month, this publication brings you more than 25 categories of listings, including: Grants and fellowships, awards, national, regional and international juried competitions, arranged state-by-state, residencies and artist colonies, fairs, festivals and expos where you can sell your artwork without the middle-man, museums, university galleries, and nonprofit spaces reviewing proposals for solo and group shows, percent-for-art and other open competitions, publishing opportunities, positions open, conferences and trade shows, networking opportunities. Also includes articles on self-promotion and exhibition strategies, doing business on the Internet, maximizing your web site, using e-mail,the ins-and-outs of licensing, publishing, printing, and marketing reproductions of your work, financial management, art law, etc.

The Art Directors Annual celebrates visual fuel. Great ideas, brilliant execution-the work featured in these pages is nothing less than the year’s most innovative in the fields of advertising, design, publishing, photography, illustration, film, video, and new media. The oldest and most respected publication of its kind, the Art Directors Annual presents 1,000 winning images in more than 500 full-color pages, with credit captions, scripts, statements, and a comprehensive index.

(Guide is updated every August.) From the publishers of the magazine Art in America, this guide, in additional to being a directory for galleries, provides a way to look up shows by the artist name and includes an index to articles in the magazine for the preceding calendar year. It also includes an "advertising" directory of art schools with the area of emphasis. To order the guide without a subscription to Art in America magazine, call 1-800-266-5766.

An extensive list of book titles, periodicals, and specialty publishers which covers a range of topics­ from fundraising, marketing, and other organizational development concerns to contemporary issues affecting the arts field. Other subjects include cultural facilities, programming, public art, artist self-management, and career development.

Online listings of art services, list of artists in upcoming exhibitions, specific art genre listings, opening dates, and organization contact information.

The website serves as a consolidation center for mass e-mailings for art galleries and visual arts organizations in Chicago.

The Artist Registry features slides and other images of recent works by 2,500 artists who have participated in the Viewing Program. Their work has been selected to be on file by The Drawing Center's curatorial committee. The Artist Registry is a public resource for contemporary drawing that is consulted by curators, gallerists, collectors, and art educators. Each file includes a resume, one sheet of slides, and an optional artist's statement and press clippings. All materials must be updated at least every two years to remain on file. In order to assist researchers, the files are catalogued alphabetically and cross-referenced by style and media. Artists not chosen for inclusion in the Artist Registry are encouraged to periodically resubmit new bodies of work for consideration.