Art Resources

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For ARTISTS

Help With Legal and Insurance Matters

Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center – This is a database of health insurance information for artists and people in the entertainment industry. It was created in 1998 by The Actors’ Fund of America, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This link is to the New Jersey information, but the database is national.

Foundations and Arts Organizations

New York Foundation for the Arts – The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) helps individual artists and arts organizations "turn inspiration into art. Our goal is to provide the time and resources for the creative mind and the artistic spirit to think, work, and prosper." This is a great resource; check out the Visual Artist Information Hotline.

National Endowment for the Arts – Public agency dedicated to "supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts."

Arts Plan NJ – Co-sponsored by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts(NJSCA), ArtPRIDE Foundation and New Jersey Network Foundation (NJN), Arts Plan NJ is a statewide initiative to create a better New Jersey through and for the arts.

Residencies

Vermont Studio Center – Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is an international creative community that supports the making of art as "the communication of spirit through form." The web site has information about residencies and visiting artists and writers.

Help With Career Matters

Artist Help Network – Portal to help fine artists mine resources on career development, career challenges, and personal and creative growth. The site is packed with publications, organizations, service providers, Web sites, software, and audio-visual materials

Art Research

Artslynx – This portal is a collection of curated link libraries and original material that are optimized for researchers, scholars, educators, students, and professionals working in the arts. It includes information about Theatre, Dance, Music, as well as visual arts.

Inspiration

Chronogram – According to their web site, Luminary Publishing has the aim of "nourishing and supporting the creative and cultural life of the Hudson Valley" and to "disseminate material that nourishes and support the creative life of our region and in the world, and to demonstrate a paradigm of that creativity in action." But the site is fun anyway.

Dexigner – "World Design Portal". Ambitious site covers all these design topics: Product, Graphic, Fashion, Architecture, Digital, Textile, and Art.

Food, Art & The Media – Hungry for art?

Japanese Watermelon Carvings – Display of 34 examples of this unusual art form.

Imagination Prompt Generator – Use this neat little gizmo next time you're stuck with a creative block.

Help With Techniques, Materials

Demos of Lightness Illusions – Learn about how light works and use it in your artwork. This interactive presentation is based on a chapter titled "Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions", by Edward Adelson, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

POVCOMP Hall of Fame – The Persistence Of Vision Raytracer ('POV-Ray') is a freely downloadable cross-platform application that can be used to generate photorealistic images of objects in the real world, or to visualize 'virtual' objects that do not physically exist.

Sculpture and 3-Dimensional Art

New England Sculptors Association – NESA represents a diverse membership of nationally and regionally recognized sculptors by sponsoring exhibitions and lectures, and promoting the work of sculptors of all levels of experience.

For ART ENTHUSIASTS

Educational – Learn About Art

Artcyclopedia – This site gives you many ways to find almost anything that is art-related. Search by keyword or browse through links of all kinds of information about artists, museums, art movements.

Cave Paintings of Lascaux – Take a virual tour of the ancient cave paintings of Lascaux in France's Pyrenees mountains. Web travel a lot cheaper than airfare.

Art That Anyone Can Do

Your Photos Into Art – This art.com service lets you upload your favorite snapshots and apply artistic effects like collage, color pencil or oil painting. Print them out on canvas or share them online.

Museums & Galleries

Queens Museum of Art – Located at New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY

The New York Art World – Listings of exhibitions and openings in and around New York City

Morris Museum – Located in Morristown, NJ. "Art, Science, Theater, History"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Located on Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in New York City. "5,000 years of art "

The Museum of Modern Art – Located at 11 West 53 Street in New York City. Modern and contemporary art.

Whitney Museum of American Art – Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City. Collection of world-renowned 20th-century American art.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – Located at 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street in New York City. Modern and contemporary international art.

Brooklyn Museum of Art – Located at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. Second-largest art museum in New York City. Permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces and middle eastern art to contemporary art.

New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea – Located at 556 West 22nd Street, at 11th Avenue, in New York City. "The premier contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most important internationally"

Find Artists

ArtistsRegister.com – Showcase of visual artists in the United States. The Web site connects artists and their work with private collectors, gallery owners, interior designers, corporate art buyers, public art administrators, and art enthusiasts in general.

For Collectors

Caring for Sculpture – advice on sculpture maintenance and repair from the New England Sculptors Association

AIC "Caring for Your Treasures" – advice from The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works about how to preserve things constructed from paintings and works on paper to architecture and home videotape. If you decide you would prefer to have a professional do it for you, other links on this site help you in choosing a conservator.

Art Facts – Includes "Quick Facts" page with brief answers to commonly asked questions about finding, maintaining, and conserving artworks.