A usable contract for artists and galleries with notes about the specific details in the contract.

Copyright issues specifically for visual artists.

While there are times when legal assistance is recommended, this site gets you a long way on your own with low cost and no cost resources.

R.I.G.H.T.S. was created solely to provide the internet user with the tools for understanding online copyright based on specific legal definitions, the laws and principles.

Washington University site provides legal information.

Search for art schools by location, degree type or specialty area. Detailed fact sheets on programs and admissions officers.

A comprehensive guide to art schools, workshops, and art classes offered around the country. The site also has some informative articles about topics like applying to schools, your portfolio, and interviews with professional artists.

An educational and lending organization, established to foster public appreciation of contemporary art in a complex economic and cultural climate.

Pre-screened art opportunities list of millions in grants, contests, juried competitions, fellowships, residencies, teaching assistantships, calls for art, art deadlines, scholarships, commissions, percent-for-art...

Established to help match grant makers and grant seekers. The historical database lists donors, recipients, amounts and purposes, as well as requirements for approaching each organization.

Must-read, must-have trade publication for the gallery and interior-design retail markets.

The daily digest of arts, culture and ideas. It's so good, the articles may be habit-forming!

Free online E-zine publication published free to subscribers worldwide and sponsored by the Art Appreciation Foundation. AKN brings to its readers unbiased information and news about art and the art world.

A comprehensive full-color publication with 600+ full-color images, maps, charts and a listing of 5,500 artists cross-indexed to their galleries.

Division of Pfingsten Publishing, LLC, a business-to-business publishing company and show producer, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Contains exactly 28 pages each month on subjects that sculptors want including: casting bronze, aluminum, iron, steel, glass as well as life casting.

A variety of resources for artists including chat boards on arts topics, workshop listings, supplies, exhibition listings, articles, and many other helpful topics.

A wide range of comprehensive career opportunity listings and valuable information.

Career development, creativity, tools and techniques. Their mission is to educate, connect, nurture, and promote Bay Area artists and writers but most of the information and resources are helpful to artists living anywhere in the US

A content and portal site formed from the combined memberships of the seven art dealer associations. Collectors, curators, and art historians interact with dealers and artists to benefit from the dealers’ knowledge, expertise and inventories.

Inspirational "art quotes," artist interviews, famous artists online, visual art news, an art directory and fine artist portfolios.

A service of the Actors' Fund, but it's for all artists. Click on your state, and you'll get a listing of all artist-focused health insurance resources in your area. Includes providers as well as great background and general advice.

Art market research skills: Practical Lessons in Marketing.

Artists, activists, healthcare professionals, environmentalists, those challenged by illness, and anyone interested in the healing potential of art come and learn, be inspired, and network with each other.

Art-Support was founded by Dan Fear to help fine art photographers and other visual artists understand the business side of art.

Discussion forum on Fresco painting technique and workshop, visual and performing arts, gallery and museum exhibitions, advice on art marketing from professional art agent, fresco documentary, artist promotion, and more.

Exhibitors and trade professionals the world over attend DECOR Expos in New York and Atlanta each year - the largest decorative art and framing show in the world.

More than 20,000 events throughout the United States (and some in Canada)—festivals, art fairs, gift shows and special events seeking artists and craftspeople.

Comprehensive guide to galleries from coast to coast put out by Art Now Gallery Guide.

If you equate marketing your art with cheapening your fine artist status, think again. While the art market is decidedly different these days, many of the principles we teach at A.C.T. have been used by masters with great success.

Internet reference guide, especially for artists and arts professionals, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums about Fine arts, described as “The nonutilitarian arts, arts concerned primarily with the creation of beauty.”

Unites, represents and serves each of the 50 states and six jurisdictional governments to support excellence in and access to the arts.

Begun in 1995, the NAIA serves as an advocate for artists, committed, by positive and cooperative means, to promote improvement throughout our profession, serve our membership and to foster working partnerships with other arts organizations.

The mission of The National Endowment for the Arts is to enrich diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country.

This site shows more than 1,200 examples of portrait painting commissions from over 100 professional portrait artists. The Main Gallery features every portrait artist, but there are also close to 40 specialty galleries.

Suite101 is a company that offers advice and articles on the web on a wide variety of topics. This link takes you to arts writer Cecilia H. Lee's site within Suite101 that lists several very good articles on the business of art.

This site is intended to provide you with detailed guides for creating and recognizing frescos, whether it be Buon (True) Fresco, Secco Fresco or Faux Fresco.

A guide to art and artist information on the Web, is designed to bring together those who love art with those who create it and to provide an affordable means for artists to promote their work.

Started in 1994 and established in early 1995 as a site to create an in-depth gateway to arts information on the Web. WWAR now has hundreds of thousands of arts sites in their database.