ART OMI: International artists colony, located in the town of Omi in the Hudson Valley of NYS. Three-week residencies are offered on an annual basis and open to professional visual artists. For information contact: Larry Gillig, Tel: 212-202-6060 or Email: artomi55@alo.com

ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS COMMUNITIES mission is to contribute to America's cultural vitality by supporting their membership of diverse residency programs and advocating for creative environments that advance the endeavors of artists. For more information, please visit www.artistcommunities.org or email the Alliance at aac@artistcommunities.org.

ARTISTS' ENCLAVE AT I-PARK – I-Park announces its eighth season hosting The Artists’ Enclave. Artists’ residencies, self-directed/project oriented, will be offered from May through November 2008. Most sessions are four weeks in duration. Residencies will be offered to visual (including digital) artists, music composers, environmental artists, landscape and garden designers, creative writers and architects. Work samples will be evaluated through a competitive, juried process.

International applicants welcome. To defray the cost of travel, a $1,000 grant will be offered in 2008 to two international artists whose work is held in particularly high regard by the selection committee (details to follow).

For additional project information, go to our website: www.i-park.org. Application materials for 2008, including an in depth FAQ, will be available in early October 2007 and will be available for direct download from the website (Residency Program section). E-mail: ipark2002@ureach.com. Phone: 860-873-2468.

ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS located in New Symrna Beach, FL provides artists from all disciplines with space to live, work and collaborate during three-week residencies. Each residency session includes three master artists who select a group of associates, talented, emerging/midcareer artists, through an application process. For information on how to apply, please call 386-427-6975 or visit www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org or email program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org.

FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN: Offers fellowships for emerging artists in the early stages of their careers to work together in a seven-month setting of the Work Center located in Provincetown, MA. To apply Tel: 508-487-9960 or Email: fawc@capecod.net.

HELENE WURLITZER FOUNDATION: Offers three to six month residencies to painters in Taos, NM between April 1 and September 30. Fax: 505-758-2559.

LOWER EAST SIDE PRINT SHOP participants from around the world work in-residence, for any amount of time, throughout the year and receive 24-hour access to facilities, technical assistance, and a range of other benefits. Selection is ongoing; allow two weeks for application review. For information: info@printshop.org or www.printshop.org.

SALTONSTALL FOUNDATION: Located in Ithaca, NY, annually awards grants of $5,000 to a limited number of writers and visual artists in the central and western counties of NYS. For application forms and details send a SASE to120 Brindley Street Ithaca, NY 14850. Contact: Lee Ellen Tel: 607-277-4933, Email: artsfound@clarity_connect.com

SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE: A nine-week residency program in rural Maine for 65 advanced visual artists. Fellowships available. For information Tel: 212-529-0505

THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS, INC.: Located in Austerlitz, NY, offers month long artist residency programs. For information: Tel: 518-392-3103

TRIANGLE ARTISTS WORKSHOP: Located in NYC assists working, professional artists at all stages of their careers and sponsors an intensive two-week studio session for an international group of painters and sculptors. For information contact: Willard Boepple, Tel: 212-431-5895 Web: www.Triangleworkshop.org

WOMEN’S STUDIO WORKSHOP: Awards fellowships designed to provide artists with concentrated work time to explore new ideas in a dynamic and cooperative community of women artists in a rural environment. Contact Tatana Kellner Artistic Director 914-658-9133, Email: wsw@ulster.net

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ARTISTS' FELLOWSHIP INC is seeking applications from artists who have financial difficulties because of sickness, disability, or catastrophic incidents that has interrupted their means of self-support. Instructions: Write to 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 1003 and request a financial aid application; or visit the website www.artistsfellowhip.org and download the financial aid application.

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ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION, INC.: Offers grants of up to $10,000 to assist established artists (working in “mature phase” for over ten years) facing an unforeseen tragedy. Tel: 212-226-0581.

ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists’ organizations and other cultural institutions to assist in the innovative and scholarly presentation of contemporary visual arts. Tel: 212-387-7555 Website: www.warholfoundation.org/guidelns. Contact: Pamela Clapp, Program Director

ARTADIA: THE FUND FOR ART AND DIALOGUE provides visual artists in
specific communities throughout the United States with: unrestricted
grants and a national network of support. Artadia currently runs
bi-annual grant cycles in San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston and is
planning new programs for Miami and Boston. For more information visit:
www.artadia.org E-mail: info@artadia.org Tel: 212-727-2233

CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION supports artists creating original work, pursuing innovative, experimental, approaches to form and/or content in the visual, performing and media arts. info@creative-capital.org, www.creative-capital.org.

ELISABETH GREENSHIELDS FOUNDATION: Offers $10,000 for representational visual art. Contact: EGF, 1814 Sherbrooke Ouest Suite 1 Montreal PQ H3H-1E4, Canada

ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS provides financial assistance to working artists. Grants may be used to enhance the quantity and quality of work and recognition. Selections are based on artistic merit, financial need and nature of the grant proposal. Funding is for grants in aid, not project proposals. For information: grants@efa1.org.

JUDITH ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION grants of up to $35,000 are awarded to present, preserve or interpret works of less famous artists who have died after Sept. 12, 1976. Nonprofits, publicly supported institutions, museums, public galleries, art schools, academic institutions, estates, curators, scholars and historians may receive grants. Contact: Elizabeth Slater, (212) 831-4114 or online at http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/rothschild

LEEWAY FOUNDATION: Offers grants to women artists at all stages of development, in the Greater Philadelphia region. Tel: 215-545-4078, Fax: 215-545-4021: Email: info@leeway.org; Website: www.leeway.org.

MARIE WALSH SHARPE ART FOUNDATION: Offers 14 free studio spaces in NYC to visual artists 21 years and older. Studios are available after June 1 for periods of up to a year. They are nonliving spaces for the making of new works of art. For information call 212-925-3008.

RICHARD FLORSHEIM ART FUND for Senior American Artists over 60. Grants $1,000 - $10,000 as partial exhibit funding, participation in exhibition catalogue and assisting non-profit institutions in the collection and display of American Art. Contact Art Fund 813-949-6886.

THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION, INC.: Provides financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. Fax: 212-288-2836 Email: grants@pkf.org

THE WHEELER FOUNDATION offers emergency grants to visual artists of color to help meet urgent financial needs. Native American, African American, Asian American or Latino and are 21 years of age or older and living in the tri-state greater New York City area are eligible. Contact: PO Box 300507, Brooklyn, NY 11230, phone 718-951-0581.

WORLDSTUDIO FOUNDATION - Dare a Young Artist to Dream supports minority and at-risk youth interested in the visual arts with college scholarships and a national arts mentoring program. Information Tel: 212-366-1317. Website: www.worldstudio.org

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ARTS ALIVE! SOUTH DAKOTA: Lists a variety of opportunities including a Grant Program for Individuals in the Visual Arts For online information visit: www.sdarts.org/arts_ops.php3

ARTIST’S RESOURCE LETTER: A biweekly publication of the Artists Resource Center at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is available to subscribers nationwide as well as overseas and includes current listings of art-related jobs, exhibition opportunities, updated grants, fellowships and residencies and studio space. For online information visit: www.smfa.edu/general/newsletter.html

ARTISTS & WRITERS COLONIES: Publication containing more than 260 programs – including residencies, retreats, fellowships, grants, colonies and creative spaces for artists.

CERFNEWS - The mission of the Craft Emergency Relief Fund located in Montpelier VT, is to help craftspeople sustain crafts making as a livelihood by providing immediate support to professional craftspeople suffering career-threatening emergencies. Tel. 802-229-2306. email: info@craftemergency.org. Website: www.craftemergency.org.

COLORADO ARTIST REGISTER NEWSLETTER: An extensive listing of opportunities for artists, including calls for entry, residencies, and fellowships. For online information: www.state.co.us/gov_dir/art/carcover.htm

NYFA - From Inspiration to Art - Explore the new NYFA Interactive at www.nyfa.org, featuring NYFA Source. NYFA Source is the most extensive national database of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists, arts organizations, and the general public can access information on over 3,000 arts organizations, 2,800 award programs, 2, 600 service programs and 900 publications for individual artists nationwide, with more programs added every day. Website: http://www.nyfa.org/source.

OREGON ARTS COMMISSION OPPORTUNITIES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: includes calls in the visual arts, and for public art. For online information visit: Tel: 503-986-0082

STUDIONOTES: National artist-to artist journal that provides a mix of practical and theoretical information and ideas for artists of all styles, media and geographic locations. Tel: 707-746-5516, Email: snotes1@ix.netcom.com Webgalleries.com/studionotes.

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ALLIANCE OF NYS ARTS ORGANIZATIONS: NY’s primary service association for community based arts and cultural organizations. The Alliance provides the resourses and tools that help strengthen cultural organizations. Tel: 631-298-1234. Web: www.thealliancenys.org.

ANONYMOUS WAS A WOMAN awards "no strings" grants to women, over 35, at a critical juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to pursue their work. Contact: Program. Admin. at 212-836-1358.

ART & SCIENCE COLLABORATIONS, INC. (ASCI) is a membership and service organization whose purpose is to raise public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between these fields. For information visit the website at www.asci.org. Tel. 718-816-9796.

ARTDEADLINE. COM: Online database for artists seeking juried exhibitions, competitions, grants, festivals, financial aid, calls for entries, jobs, internship, residencies and more. View sample listings at www.artdeadline.com.

ARTFACES/ARTPLACES: Virtual consortium where artists can sell their work. Offers many features at www.artfaces.com.

ARTISTS REGISTER.COM ARIZONA: Online register of Arizona’s visual artists designed to connect people interested in visual arts with Arizona artists and their work. See: www.artistsregister.com/arizona.

ARTISTCARES was initiated as an immediate grass roots response to Sept. 11th. It has 3 primary services - Casual events, Collaborative offerings and Structured workshops designed to promote healing through creative expression in times of crisis. Email art@ArtistCares.org or website: www.artistcares.org.

CREATIVE WORK FUND: Supports creative collaborations between artists and nonprofit organizations in San Francisco and Alameda Counties. Visit the Fund's website at www.creativeworkfund.org.

FIND A JOB is a free service of the Massachusetts Cultural Council that posts jobs for cultural organizations, or corporations employing artists such as photographers, designers, etc. www.hireCulture.org.

OHIO ONLINE VISUAL ARTISTS REGISTRY: The Ohio Arts Council and the Columbus Metropolitan Library maintain a database of works of artists from Ohio and around the country. Offers opportunity to participate in the registry. Contact: Ohio Arts Council; Tel: 614-466-2613; www.ohioonlinearts.org.

NYS ARTS ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION: Provides informational services and professional development opportunities for educators, teaching artists and arts professionals. Tel. 1-800-278-7633. E-mail: nysaae@crisny.org.

SAN FRANCISCO ART COMMISSION GALLERY SLIDE REGISTRY: A library of 500 culturally diverse, professional artists from across the U.S. Located in the Art Commission Gallery, this curatorial resource is available to independent curators, alternative art spaces, and art consultants who seek contemporary artwork. Curators may browse through selected artist information and images by visiting the Slide Registry Online at www.albumsonline.com/~slidereg. Membership in the Slide Registry is $10 for one year. As part of membership, artists will be placed on the gallery mailing list and will receive application forms for any exhibitions or special projects appropriate for their work. For online information visit: www.postfun.com/sfac/.

THE VISUAL ARTISTS GUIDE TO ESTATE PLANNING: Introduces estate planning concepts, offers practical advice, discusses legal issues and provides an in-depth discussion of policy and law on selected issues that visual artists should consider. $10/copy. Contact the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, 711 N. Tejon, Suite B, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Tel: 719-635-3220.

VISUAL ARTISTS INFORMATION HOTLINE: Provides a way for artists to get the information they need. The hotline is primarily a referral service and gives details on a wide variety of programs and services to artists. Topics include emergency funding, health and safety, insurance, international opportunities, proposal writing, public art programs, studio space, legal information and more.
Tel: 800-232-2789.

VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: Offers legal assistance for artists.
Tel: 212-319-2910, Art Law Line, extension #9.