Additional Resources

Performing Arts Exchange
http://www.southarts.org/pae.htm
Developed and managed by Southern Arts Federation. PAE's purpose is to connect artists with audiences through fostering excellence in all aspects of presenting and touring the performing arts. This conference is the primary forum for professional development for artists, artist managers and presenters.

The National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.nea.gov/
The National Endowment for the Arts enriches our Nation and its diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country.

VSA arts
http://www.vsarts.org/
Designated by The United States Congress as the coordinating organization for arts programming for persons with disabilities, VSA arts offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts. Nearly five million people with disabilities participate in VSA arts programs every year through a network of affiliates in 49 states and the District of Columbia and 64 countries worldwide.

AATE {American Alliance for Theatre and Education}
http://www.aate.com/

American Composers Forum
http://www.composersforum.org/

American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/

American Symphony Orchestra League
http://www.symphony.org/

Americans for the Arts
http://www.artsusa.org/
Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.

ArtNetwork
http://www.nafa.com/
Teach artists the fine art of marketing

Arts Marketing
http://www.artsmarketing.org
Arts Marketing.org helps your organization address its daily marketing needs and longer-term marketing issues.

ArtsEdge
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
The National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience

ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News
http://www.artsjournal.com/

Carnegie Mellon Center for Arts Management and Technology
http://www.artsnet.org/camt
Carnegie Mellon Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT) is to investigate existing and emerging information and communication technology, and to stimulate thinking about the practical application of this technology for arts managers.

Dance USA
http://www.danceusa.org/index.html
Dance/USA advances the art form of dance by addressing the needs, concerns and interests of the professional dance community.

Folkstreams
http://www.folkstreams.net
The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on the website together with background materials that highlight the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the films.

Goucher's Master of Arts in Arts Administration
http://www.goucher.edu/maaa/
The Goucher College limited-residency Master of Arts in Arts Administration (MAAA) offers an opportunity to students, living anywhere, to gain further knowledge and credentials for a major profession. Goucher's MAAA program provides students a chance to build upon their existing passion for the arts with the skills and training needed for administrative leadership.

Hand Made In America
http://www.handmadeinamerica.org/

Musical America
http://www.musicalamerica.com/

National Council for the Traditional Arts
http://www.ncta.net/

Patron Mail
http://www.patrontechnology.com/
PatronMail® is an e-mail marketing software system designed especially for arts organizations by arts industry veterans. Now used by over 200 organizations nationwide and in the U.K., PatronMail® allows you to execute sophisticated e-mail marketing campaigns from your office with no technical training.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
http://www.pw.org/
Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers.

Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA)
http://www.sceaonline.com/
SCEA is located on the campus of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Intensive professional development programs help administrators, teachers, artists, and parents integrate the arts into curriculum.

Southern Festivals
http://www.southfest.com/

Southern Spaces
http://www.southernspaces.org
Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed internet journal and scholarly forum hosted by Emory University and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that provides open access to essays, gateways, events and conferences, interviews and performances, and annotated weblinks on real and imagined spaces and places of the American South.

StreamingCulture
http://www.streamingculture.org
StreamingCulture® adds video and audio to the web sites of cultural organizations—bringing movement, sound, the action of art itself to the Internet. By making such Internet broadcasting technically feasible and affordable, StreamingCulture extends the reach of arts organizations and creates new relationships between artists and audiences.

The Actors' Fund
http://www.actorsfund.org/
The Actors' Fund is for people on the stage and behind the scenes, in front of the camera and behind the lens. It's for agents and announcers, carpenters and clowns, actors and dancers, magicians and musicians, producers and free agents, stage hands and singers.

The Arts Education Partnership
http://aep-arts.org/
The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools.

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters
http://www.artspresenters.org/

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs
http://www.awpwriter.org/
AWP was founded in 1967 to support the growing presence of writers in higher education & thereby foster new generations of writers & new audiences for literature.

ZAPP
http://www.zapplication.org/
will enable individual artists to apply online to multiple art shows, either through a central Web site, www.zapplication.org, or through the Web sites of specific art shows. The online application process also allows artists to directly upload digital images of their artwork for jury review.

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