RESOURCES

Artist Association/Organization

18th Street Arts Center
http://www.18thstreet.org
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90291
Ph: 310.453.3711
Fx: 310.453.4347

Southern California's only international arts and residency center, dedicated to issues of community, diversity and beauty in contemporary society. 18th Street Arts Center aspires to be an artist-friendly gathering place, providing a physical center in a city characterized by its de-centralization.

Alliance for Artists Communities
http://www.artistcommunities.org
255 South Main Street
Providence, RI 02903
Ph: 401.351.4320
Fx: 401.351.4507

The Alliance of Artists Communities is an international consortium of organizations and individuals that offer time and space for creative work. The Alliance provides its members with unique opportunities to develop collegial relationships in the field and to be part of collective activities that further common goals.

Archeworks
http://www.archeworks.org
625 North Kingsbury St. Chicago, IL 60610-6932
Ph: 312.867.7254
Fx: 312.867.7260

Archeworks is an alternative design school with a difference. In place of a traditional curriculum, students work in multidisciplinary teams with nonprofit partners to create design solutions for social needs. Archeworks students learn the value of quality design for the nonprofit community.

Arts for Life
http://www.arts-for-life.org/index.html
2043 32nd St., 3rd Floor
Astoria, NY 11105
Ph: 917.432.4144

Arts for Life is a consortium of artists working in all media that offers innovative arts-based programs to heal, enrich, and transform the lives of individuals, communities, and the world, inspired by myths of creation and rites of passage that human societies have used for thousands of years to enable individual and cultural healing.

Asian American Art Alliance
http://www.aaartsalliance.org/
74 Varick St., Suite 302
New York, NY 10013
Ph: 212.941.9208
Fx: 212.941.7978

Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) is dedicated to increasing financial resources and visibility for Asian American arts groups in New York City.

Art for a Change
http://www.art-for-a-change.com

Mark Vallen's Art For A Change website hails from Los Angeles California and is dedicated to the arts and their role in transforming society, from his own realistic and socially conscious artworks to the works of other like minded artists possessing a critical vision. This site exists primarily as a gallery, educational forum, and resource center, but it should also be thought of as a platform for arts advocacy. The belief that art can make a difference in our world and that there can be no social progress without it, is the motivating force behind this website.

Artists without Borders/ Artistes Sans Frontieres
http://www.artwit.org
Tokyo 179-0084
Nerima-ku, Hikawadai 3-16-21-205, Japan
Ph & Fx: 81-3-3550 7053

Artists without Borders / Artistes Sans Frontieres is a nonprofit, international humanitarian organization, whose objective is to provide relief to victims of war while promoting the work of talented artists.

Community Built Association
http://www.communitybuilt.org
Sherri Warner Hunter
3375 Fairfield Pike
Bell Buckle, TN 37020
Fx: 931.389.9649

The CBA is a not-for-profit association of professionals who are involved in all aspects of the community built field. The organization was formed in 1989 to provide network for such professionals and to offer information, education and training to the general public. The Community Built Association’s goal is to further the theory and practice of involving volunteers in the design, organization and creation of community projects that reshape the physical environment.

Creative Work Fund
http://www.creativeworkfund.org
One Lombard Street, Suite 305
San Francisco, CA 94111
Ph: 415.398.4474

The Creative Work Fund invites artists and nonprofit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to intellectual inquiry and to the strengthening of communities.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Inc. (MALCA)
http://www.maclaarte.org/index.html
510 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Ph: 408.998.2783
Fx: 408.998.2817

MACLA is an energizing contemporary arts space located in San Jose, California. The organization was founded in 1989 by a group of community activists engaged in a broad mobilization to change the representation of multicultural artists within the City's art allocations.