RESOURCES

Resources / Umbrella Organization

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.

Appalshop
http://www.appalshop.org/
91 Madison
Whitesburg, KY 41858
Ph: 606-633-0108
Fx: 606-633-1009

Appalshop is an arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia producing original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books. Appalshop's education and training programs support communities' efforts to solve their own problems in a just and equitable way. Appalshop is dedicated to the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner the resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others. The creative acts of listening and telling are Appalshop's core competency. Each year, Appalshop productions and services reach several million people nationally and internationally.

Alliance for Community Media
http://www.alliancecm.org
http://www.alliancecm.org
666 11th Street NW, Suite 740
Washington DC, 20001
Ph: 202.393.2650
Fx: 202.393.2653

The mission of the Alliance for Community Media is to advance democratic ideals by ensuring that people have access to electronic media and by promoting effective communication through community uses of media.

American Association of Community Theatre
http://www.aact.org/index.htm

The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) is the national voice of community theatre, representing the interests of its members and over 7,000 theatres across the U.S. and with the armed forces overseas.

Americans for the Arts
http://ww3.artsusa.org
1000 Vermont Ave. NW
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Ph: 202.371.2830
Fx: 202.371.0424

One East 53rd Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
Ph: 212.223.2787
Fx: 212.980.4857

Americans for the Arts is a $9 million dollar nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. It focuses on three primary goals: increasing public and private sector support for the arts; ensuring that every American child has access to a high-quality arts education; and strengthening communities through the arts. It is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Americans for the Arts has offices in Washington, DC and New York City and partners with local, state, and national arts organizations; government agencies; business leaders; individual philanthropists; educators; and funders throughout the country.

Artpublic
http://www.art-public.com

Art-public.com is a specialized online resource for information and documentation dedicated exclusively to art in the public arena.

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.

Artists for Literacy
http://www.artistsforliteracy.org/home.html
2601 Mariposa Street, 2nd floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
Ph: 415.553.3330

Artist for Literacy's mission is to influence community, public and private sector support for literacy, and to enrich the lives of reading challenged youth and adults by responding to the need for dynamic and innovative learning tools that foster literary and artistic appreciation, critical thinking, increased confidence, curiosity, and life-long learning.

Art in the Public Interest
http://www.apionline.org
http://www.communityarts.net
P.O. Box 68
Saxapahaw, NC 27340
Ph: 336.376.8404

Art in the Public Interest (API) is a nonprofit organization that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists.

Art Serve Michigan
http://www.artservemichigan.org/
17515 W. Nine Mile Rd. Suite 1025
Southfield, MI 48075
Ph: 248.557.8288

ArtServe Michigan, a unified arts and cultural organization, serves, supports, and advocates for an enriched cultural environment and promotes the arts.

Arts and Healing Network
http://www.artheals.org/

The Arts and Healing Network is an online resource about the healing potential of art. The site includes healing artist pages, community-based projects, books, grants, an online newsletter, a live Connection Center forum, links, and more.

Arts Midwest
http://www.artsmidwest.org
2908 Hennepin Ave., Suite 200
Minneapolis, MN 55408-1954
Ph: 612.341.0755
Fx: 612.341.0902

Connects the arts to audiences throughout the nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters
http://www.artspresenters.org/about/mission.cfm
1112 16th Street NW
Suite 400
Washington DC, 20036
Ph: 202.833.2787
Toll free: 888-820-ARTS (2787)
Fx: 202.833.1543

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is a membership organization, dedicated to bringing performing artists and audiences together in every place and way imaginable. The Association achieves its goal by providing visionary thinking, professional development, resource sharing, and advocacy, in support of its members and all those who create and disseminate the performing arts.

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.

The Arts Paper
Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties
http://www.taparts.org
Jennifer Heath, Editor
Lisa Trank, Managing Editor

The Arts Paper is a bi-monthly arts advocacy journal of the Boulder Arts Commission. We are based in Boulder, Colorado USA, and have a print circulation of 10,000. The Resource is unusual among artist registries in that it includes artists of all disciplines. The Arts Paper carries no advertising and is therefore not bound to market concerns. Its goal is to offer a focused, in-depth, critical framework for discussion. We strive to engage those who have been left out of the arts conversation and do so in language that most lay people can understand. Artists themselves are our primary contributors.

Arts & Culture Indicators in Community Building Project
http://www.urban.org/nnip/acip.html

The Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project (ACIP) is an exploratory and experimental effort to develop arts and culture neighborhood indicators for use in local planning, policymaking, and community building.

Arts Alliance
http://www.abqarts.org/contact.htm
PO Box 27657
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87125
Ph: 505.268.1920
Fx: 505.232.5383

The Arts Alliance celebrates, supports, strengthens and promotes arts creators in music, theater, dance, visual and literary arts. Achievement is realized through advocacy and service efforts and the implementation of the Cultural Plan for Albuquerque.

Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA)
http://www.bronxarts.org/index.asp
1738 Hone Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461-1486
Ph: 718-931-9500
Fx: 718-409-6445

BCA encourages the public's awareness and participation in the arts, and nurtures the development of artists and cultural organizations. BCA provides cutting edge programming in arts education and cultural strategies to help revitalize local communities. It designs and implements programs that focus attention on issues of concern to Bronx residents including: job training, financial stabilization, independent contracting, business startups, environmental concerns, and health related issues. BCA actively develops partnerships with the private sector, educational institutions, social service agencies and community organizations.

Center for Arts and Culture
http://www.culturalpolicy.org/index.cfm
Center for Arts and Culture
4350 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 740
Arlington, VA 22203
Ph: 703.248.0430
Fx: 703.248.0414

Founded in 1994 in Washington, DC, the Center is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that commissions research, holds public roundtables, and publishes new voices and perspectives on the arts and culture. The Center for Arts and Culture aims to inform and improve policy decisions that affect cultural life. The guiding principles of that mission include freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression, as well as freedom of opportunity for all to participate in a vital and diverse culture.

Center for the Study of the Art and Community
http://www.artandcommunity.com
4566 Tangleberry Lane N. E.
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Ph: (206) 855-0977
Fx: (206) 855-1895

The Center for the Study of the Art and Community (CSA&C) is an association of creative leaders from business, government and the arts who have succeeded in building bridges between the arts and a wide range of community, public and private sector interests. The center helps community organizations, public agencies, schools, and arts organizations respond assertively and creatively to increasingly complex community needs. To do this we work with clients to build and maintain new arts-based partnerships. We also help educational institutions strengthen their relationships with the broader community using the arts. CSA&C activities include research/evaluation, publishing, training, lectures, and consulting services.

Community Arts Network
http://www.communityarts.net

Community Arts Network website is an international resource focusing on the work of artists and their community partners Ã¢ÂÂ projects and programs that actively promote the arts as part of education, political life, health recovery, prisoner rehabilitation, environmental protection, community regeneration, electronic communication, and more.

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 AssociationÃ¢ÂÂs 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.

Community Program in the Arts (COMPAS)
http://www.compas.org
304 Landmark Center
75 West 5th Street
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102, USA
Ph: 651.292.3249
Fx: 651.292.3258

Formed in 1974, COMPAS is Minnesota's most widely used resource for artist residencies and community-building through the arts, engaging approximately 400,000 people in the arts in approximately 100 Minnesota towns each year. COMPAS began as Poets in the Schools in 1968, was incorporated as COMPAS in 1974, and merged with United Arts in 1998. With a mix of direct-service participatory programs and re-granting programs, COMPAS is similar to many of the local arts councils around the country.

Cooperative Artists Institute
http://www.tribal-rhythms.org/index.html
311 Forest Hills Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-3605
Ph: 617.524.6378
Fx: 617.522.7122

Cooperative Artists Institute's mission is to empower people to solve their individual and collective problems by applying the Arts as a catalyst for personal and institutional change. Founded in 1970, CAI is the first Think Tank to specialize in using the performing and visual arts to build community. All of CAI's programs in schools, after-schools, community centers, businesses, colleges and government organizations are designed to overcome family, community and organizational fragmentation.

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.

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
http://cds.aas.duke.edu
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
Ph: 919.660.3663
Fx: 919.681.7600

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture.

Community Arts Advocates
http://www.communityartsadvocates.org
PO Box 112
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Ph: 617.522.3407

Community Arts Advocates cultivates ongoing fundamental relationships between artists and communities by celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities. Community Arts Advocates, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding public awareness, participation in and support of the arts through performances and festivals, exhibits and workshops, publicity, educational forums, nonprofit arts management consultation services, and collaborative projects.

Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
http://www.cultural-alliance.org
1436 U Street NW, Suite 103
Washington, DC 20009
Ph: 202.638.2406
Fx: 202.638.3388

The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington is an organization dedicated to sustaining and increasing regional leadership, appreciation, support and resources for arts and culture. We build and nurture a regional network by enhancing the connection, collaboration, and conversation within the arts and cultural community and among business and other interest groups.

Feral Arts
http://www.feralarts.com.au
Feral Arts Assoc. Inc.
P.O. Box 12085
George St Brisbane QLD 4003 Australia
Ph: +617 3221 6557
Fx: +617 3221 6995

Feral Arts is a community cultural development organization based in Brisbane, Australia. For Feral Arts community, cultural development is about putting cultural development into community hands. Our programs help to build inclusive, sustainable and creative communities. Our approach combines long-term local partnerships with a focus on research, innovation and new technologies. We act as go-betweens - linking the cultural interests and experiences of people on a local level with key government decision makers and business stakeholders. Feral Arts collaborates with community partners, government agencies and business stakeholders to build and test new tools including software programs and online projects designed to enhance local control of cultural development. We develop and promote models of locally driven arts practice, supporting growth in the arts and cultural sectors, and the broader community. Feral Arts' broader aim is to enhance cultural pluralism, social inclusion and locally managed, sustainable development.

Grass Roots Arts Program
http://www.abac.edu/arts/gap/default.asp
2802 Moore Highway
Tifton, GA 31793
Ph: 229.386.3558
Fx: 229.391.2526

The Grassroots Arts Program is designed to encourage local collaborations between artists, arts organizations and non-arts organizations.

Institute for Community Development and the Arts
http://www.artsusa.org/information_resources/research_information

Washington, DC Office
1000 Vermont Ave. NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Ph: 202.371.2830
Fx: 202.371.0424

New York City Office
One East 53rd Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
Ph: 212.223.2787
Fx: 212.980.4857

The Institute for Community Development and the Arts provides a research-based understanding of how the arts are being used to address social, educational, and economic development issues in communities across the country. Areas of research and publication have included youth at risk, artist training, economic development, arts and civic dialogue, public housing, cultural tourism, and program planning and evaluation.

The Institute for Community Research
http://www.incommunityresearch.org
Two Hartford Square West, Suite 100
Hartford, CT 06106-5128
Ph: 860.278.2044
Fx: 860.278.2141

The Institute for Community Research (ICR) uses the tools of research to build community capacity and foster collaborative community-based partnerships. By gathering information in partnership with residents, we are helping communities locally and globally to ask better questions and get better answers about the complex problems they face. We believe this process is the best way to support personal growth, broaden community leadership and foster robust democratic institutions.

Journal of Ordinary Thought
http://www.jot.org
Chicago, IL
Ph: 773.684.2742

The Neighborhood Writing Alliance believes in the power of the written word. We sponsor writing workshops across the city, free and open to all adult residents. We publish pieces by each writer in the Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT). JOT is founded on the principle that Every Person Is a Philosopher. JOT is dedicated to bringing out the unheard voices and stories of Chicago. Many of the writers in JOT groups are marginalized from traditional, mainstream literary circles, because of class, race, physical isolation, or other issues. Absolutely everyone in our groups gets the opportunity to be published in our magazine, whether they are accomplished writers or newly literate.

Maine Arts Commission
http://mainearts.maine.gov
193 State Street
25 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0025
Ph: 207-287-2724
Fx: 207-287-2725

For over 30 years, the Maine Arts Commission has been helping artists and arts organizations bring more music, dance, poetry, painting and other arts activities into the lives of people in Maine. The Maine Arts Commission works to advance the arts by supplying services and results-oriented funding to artists and arts organizations, and helpful resources about the arts to the general public. It is an independent state agency funded by the Maine State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mid-America Arts Alliance
http://www.maaa.org
912 Baltimore, Suite 700
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
Ph: 816.421.1388
Fx: 816.421.3918

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) was created to support and stimulate cultural activity in communities throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Based in the heartland, M-AAA now creates and manages regional, multi-regional, national, and international programs including traveling exhibitions, performing arts touring, and professional and community development.

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.

National Performance Network
http://www.npnweb.org
225 Baronne Street, Suite 1712
New Orleans, LA 70112
(temporary address through December 2005)
1348 Washington Ave #267
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Ph: 504.595.8008
Fx: 504.595.8006

The National Performance Network (NPN) has brought innovative performing artists to all corners of the United States for over 18 years. Today, NPN has grown to a partnership of 55 art organizations, called Partners, in over 36 cities across the country. NPN connects artists with communities around two simple ideas - to help artists make work in their own neighborhoods, and to cross geographic and cultural divides to increase the traffic of fresh, challenging artistic work.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
http://www.nasaa-arts.org
1029 Vermont Avenue, NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Ph: 202.347.6352
Fx: 202.737.0526

The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. Each of the 56 states and jurisdictions has created an agency to support excellence in and access to the arts. NASAA's mission is to advance and promote a meaningful role for the arts in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the United States. We empower state arts agencies through strategic assistance that fosters leadership, enhances planning and decision-making, and increases resources.

National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts
http://www.nationalguild.org
520 8th Avenue
3rd floor, suite 302
New York, NY 10018
Ph: 212.268.3337
Fx: 212.268.3995

The National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts is the national service organization for a diverse constituency of non-profit organizations providing arts education in urban, suburban and rural communities throughout the United States. The National Guild believes involvement in the arts is essential to individual fulfillment and community life. We envision a nation where all Americans understand and appreciate the value of the arts in their lives, and in the lives of their communities. The National Guild advances high-quality, community-based arts education so that all people may participate in the arts according to their interests and abilities. We support the creation and development of community schools of the arts by providing research and information resources, professional development and networking opportunities, advocacy, and high-profile leadership.

National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA)
http://www.creativeaging.org
138 S. Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Ph: 718.398.3870

The National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA) is dedicated to fostering an understanding of the vital relationship between creative expression and the quality of life of older people. Creative expression is important for older people of all cultures and ethnic backgrounds, regardless of economic status, age, or level of physical, emotional, or cognitive functioning.

Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET)
http://www.ensembletheaters.net
NET c/o Irondale Ensemble Project
P.O. Box 150604
Brooklyn, NY 11215-0604
Ph: 718.488.9233
Fx: 718.488.9185

The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) is a consortium of North America's permanent ensemble companies. NET is committed to preserving and passing on the legacy of the ensemble theater movement. The companies making up the NET include some of the most prestigious and vital ensembles in the United States as well as new ensembles that will inherit and reinvent this movement.

Public Conversations Project
www.publicconversations.org
46 Kondazian Street
Watertown, MA 02472-2832
Ph: 617-923-1216
Fx: 617-923-2757

The Public Conversations Project (PCP) helps people with fundamental disagreements over divisive issues develop the mutual understanding and trust essential for strong communities and positive action. They are the fiscal sponsor of Faith Quilts Project listed here under ÃÂFolk Arts.ÃÂ

The Puffin Foundation, LTD.
http://www.puffinfoundation.org
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Ph: 201.836.8923
Fx: 201.836.1734

The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.

Public Art Review
http://www.publicartreview.org
2324 University Avenue West, Suite 102
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
Ph: 651.641.1128
Fx: 651.641.1983

Public Art Review (PAR), a program of FORECAST Public Artworks is the only national journal focused on exploring the many dimensions of public art. Each issue provides coverage of growing trends, reflection on critical issues and survey many of the latest public art projects happening in the United States and around the globe. Published semi-annually since 1989, our readership includes artists, librarians, architects, curators, city planners, educators, design professionals, program administrators, community leaders, writers, and students.

Raw Vision
http://www.rawvision.com/rawvision/current/current_main.html
163 Amsterdam Avenue, #203
New York City, NY 10028-5001
Ph: 212.714.8381

Founded in 1989 as a low budget twice-yearly journal, Raw Vision has now developed into a fully fledged, full color, quarterly publication with an ever increasing subscription base. Shop sales in Britain and the USA continue to rise and it now sells in Japan and throughout Europe. When French painter Jean Dubuffet first originated the concept of Art Brut in the 1940s, the art of the untrained visionary was very much a minority interest. From its almost secret and clandestine beginnings, Outsider Art has gradually become a major interest in today's contemporary art scene.

Social Impact of the Arts Project
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/SIAP/
University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Work
3701 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104-6214

Mark Stern
Ph: 215.898.5528

Susan Seifert
Ph: 215.573.7270

The Social Impact of the Arts Project is a research center of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, it has undertaken a variety of policy research projects on the role that cultural institutions play in the metropolitan Philadelphia region and its neighborhoods.

Southern Arts Federation
http://www.southarts.org/index.htm
1800 Peachtree Street NW, Suite 808
Atlanta, GA 30309
Ph: 404.874.7244
Fx: 404.873.2148

The Southern Arts Federation (SAF) is a not-for-profit regional arts organization that has been making a positive difference in the arts throughout the South since 1975. SAF creates partnerships and collaborations; assists in the professional development of artists, arts organizations and arts professionals; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and art education. The organization works in partnership with the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. SAF is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), foundations, corporations, individuals and member states.

Social And Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
http://www.sparcmurals.org/sparc/
685 Venice Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
Ph: 310 822 9560
Fx: 310 827 8717

Founded in 1976 the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) is an arts center that produces, preserves and conducts educational programs about community based public art works. SPARC espouses public art as an organizing tool for addressing contemporary issues, fostering cross-cultural understanding and promoting civic dialogue. Working within this philosophical framework, over the last twenty-eight years SPARC has created murals and other forms of public art in communities throughout Los Angeles and increasingly in national and international venues.

Theater Arts Group
http://www.tcg.org
Theatre Communications Group
520 8th Avenue, 24th floor
New York, NY 10018-4156
Ph: 212.609.5900
Fx: 212.609.5901

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, offers a wide array of services in line with our mission: to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. Our programs and services seek to increase the organizational efficiency of our member theatres, cultivate and celebrate the artistic talent and achievements of the field and promote a larger public understanding of and appreciation for the theatre field.

Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
http://www.uica.org
41 Sheldon Boulevard SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4227
Ph: 616.454.7000
Fx: 616.459.9395

Founded in 1977, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) is a vibrant research and development center for the art of today and tomorrow. Through interdisciplinary presentation, education, community studios, and art therapy, we actively challenge both artists and audiences to new levels of creative activity, collaboration, dialogue and healing. UICA presents dynamic programming in the visual arts, music, film, literature, dance and performance art that, because of its content or technique, might not otherwise find a venue in West Michigan.

Urban Arts Institute (at Massachusetts College of Art)
http://www.massart.edu/about/college/urban_arts.html
621 Huntington Avenue
Tower Building, 5th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Ph: 617.232.1555 ext. 259

The UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art works to promote excellence in public art and design. This mission is accomplished through services, which facilitate public art and design projects, through educational programs for professionals and students, and through public policy advocacy.

Western States Arts Federation
http://www.westaf.org
1743 Wazee Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80202
Ph: 303.629.1166
Fx: 303.629.9717

WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. Based in Denver, Colorado, WESTAF fulfills its mission to strengthen the financial, organizational and policy infrastructure of the arts by providing innovative programs and services to artists and arts organizations in the West and nationwide.