Selected Chicago
Links
CAN TV provides Chicagoans opportunity to train in video production facilities and make their own local broadcasts on five community stations.
Printmaking facility providing continued education classes, exhibitions, guest artists, facilities, equipment use and printing services to local artists. They offer workshops and classes for a variety of workshops and techniques.
Counterproductiveindustries.com is a Chicago-based activist arts organization that utilizes public interventions, temporary collectives, street theatre and creative resistance projects. The site seems dormant but has documentation of their projects up until 2004.
Publisher of weekly emailed magazines for the local scene: music, art, fashion, etc. Curated listings and short descriptions.
Material Exchange is a small Chicago-based collective comprised of artists and designers. Material Exchange intends to facilitate the exchange of materials between local organizations demonstrating a need and creatively meeting these needs through upcycling of cast-off materials.
CVP brings the power of professional video production and facilities to advocacy groups, community development organizations, labor unions, foundations, and others across the country working to promote social and economic justice.
Selected National/International Links
An extensive list of resources and information concerning both adult and children's health issues.
Serving the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances.
Podcasts of the Walker Art Center's Audio Tours.
ArtCast is a podcast from Basel, Germany that talks about art in whatever form it appears.
Links and referrals to information regarding health and safety issues for artists
artline is a searchable catalogue of over 675 art dealers, and over 1000 fine artists, 1500-2000 AD, listed alphabetically by painting, prints, drawing, sculpture, and photography.
Advocates for creative approaches to social change, bringing the creative sector and stakeholders of development together to empower socially and economically disadvantaged communities.
A comprehensive online directory of links related to the arts.
BOA was developed to provide artists with access to health coverage, dental insurance, technical assistance, discounted products and services through a nationwide network of partners.
A long list of classic and current books that write about the subject of divine and creative inspiration.
Provides additional information on chemical and material hazards in the workspace, as well as a database of these hazards.
Information on how to properly care for photographs, photographic prints and the care of photography collections.
Provides links to several articles on health safety in the studio.
The Getty Foundation has an extensive on-line free research library of art, design, photography, conservation, and digital images.
The Critical Ceramics web site features articles, reviews, current events, discussions, and online critiques. They promote different cultures, contemporary artists and reviews of notable ceramic exhibitions from around the globe.
Eclectic, but extensively researched links on Art and Art Image Banks. Maintained by a librarian.
Extensively researched list of links to digital image banks of every kind. List is maintained by a librarian.
Good step by step 'how to' article on building furniture for your studio out of available parts -many photos.
Steve Wilson, is a Professor in the Conceptual Information Arts Dept. at San Francisco State University, and this is his famous and extensive list of links to New Media Research areas, festivals, organizations and artists who work with electronic media art.
The Exploratorium, in San Francisco, houses hundreds of interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art, and human perception. The museum has an educational center and offers artist residencies, exhibitions and a website with many art and technology resources.
HowStuffWorks is an online source for thousands of articles and illustrations with clear explanations of how everything actually works.
Europe based Likeyou.com offers a concentrated overview of current contemporary art.
International film and TV production resource and contact listings.
National subscription-based online portfolio service and sales gallery. Service also allows you to submit applications to multiple fairs, exhibitions, and art expos across the country.
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's archive of audio tours, Art Talk archive, and Podcast directory.
Works to reduce human illness by studying environmental and individual factors underlying disease.
Its mission is to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health, and environmental policies that prevent human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes.
OCHP supports and facilitates EPA's efforts to protect children's health from environmental threats.
This Office operates a grant program for state and local governments, conducts research and outreach on healthy homes, enforces the lead hazard disclosure law, and develops lead-based paint regulations and policies.
PhotoNotes.org is a free public information resource with camera reviews for the Internet photographic community. They also offer a searchable on-line photographic glossary.
Public Art Online is a public art resource website for newer and more experienced public art artists in all disciplines. It contains practical guidance, case studies from around the world, and useful links.
E-books 'how to's' on pottery and ceramics.
A comprehensive resource for sculptors.
Artist who does oral history installations.
Users can create computer models online, which can be made to move as if they actually had muscles and mass. There are forums for users to talk about their 'models', a 'Sodazoo' (for featured models), and a 'Sodarace', where models can race against each other.
Selection of over 14 short articles with tips on health and safety when working with art materials .
Advice on glues and gluing together just about anything you can think of.
