Employment Information - Visual Arts

Quarterly newsletter of an organization that champions the arts for children with disabilities and advocates access to the arts. Available online.

Thoroughly updated and expanded, this classic handbook teaches emerging artists all the strategies they need to know for selling artwork on their own or through dealers. The book's new sections target today's vital issues: creating a web site; obtaining copyright/trademark protection on the Internet; coping with censorship of controversial art; and dealing with the new realities of funding sources. Additional chapters tell how to find galleries, arrange exhibitions, apply for grants, land survival jobs doing custom decorative art or teaching, and other relevant topics. Out of print.

This guide gives anyone with studio art training the vital tools and breadth of information they need to develop and succeed in the fine and applied arts. The book covers the full spectrum of career options available to artists today, detailing the characteristics and qualifications of each profession, institutions that offer additional study in a particular field, plus where to look for current job postings.

Rich with seasoned advice and practical tools for conquering fears behind the camera, this book is a motivational guide for anyone wanting to advance in the world of photography as a career or hobby. Following a review of basic equipment, training, and the digital revolution, the author outlines career avenues and options; ways to trigger inspiration; current photography trends and markets; grant information, creative business strategies, contests, clubs, and professional associations; and business, legal, and ethical issues.

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.

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is a 100-year-old non-profit organization that serves the informational, educational and professional needs of the international ceramics community. Membership includes bulletins, online and print resources, membership directory, reduced rates on publications, employment services, discounted registration at forums and conferences, and options to join group health programs.

These consultations give practical information and encouragement for: emerging artists to enter professional and academic training programs; established artists to secure direct employment; individual artists to get their projects funded, produced and distributed.

Post resumes, set up personal profiles, and search job listings for designers.

Our basic focus is on statewide and national arts news, and opportunities for artists and arts organizations. Announcements about non-Commission-sponsored activities and opportunities are provided as a service. Published six times a year.

(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.

Annual international art show held in Chicago.

A monthly newsletter (via e-mail or paper) with 600-900 announcements (every month) listing art contests and competitions, art scholarships and grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs and internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing and photo contests, residencies, design and architecture competitions, auditions, casting calls, fellowships, festivals, funding, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages.