Selected Arts Organizations & Programs
- Americans for the Arts: For Artists If you’re an independent artist looking for funding and professional development resources and to connect with other artists locally and nationally, Americans for the Arts can help.
- A2RU: Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) fosters and champions the role of the arts, design, and arts integration in higher education. Our passionate and generous community shares insights, best practices, tools, experiences, and more. All meant to forward each of our institutions. And all of our work.
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston invests in the people and organizations that create the art we love. We do this through integrated and responsive programs and services designed to support and nurture the creative ecosystem.
Current Exhibitions
- e-flux - current exhibition announcements/press releases and archive from 2000 (international) e-flux announcements are press releases for art exhibitions from all over the world. The announcement archive documents some of the most significant exhibitions that have taken place since 2000.
- Art New England - Current Exhibitions Openings and events around the region.
Marketing Your Art
Art Market Research: A Guide to Methods and Sources, 2d Ed. by
This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and advanced methods are explored in a chapter devoted to basic market research. Because the monetary value of artwork cannot be established without reference to the aesthetic qualities and art historical significance of our subject works, two substantial chapters detail the processes involved in researching and documenting the fine and decorative arts, respectively, and provide annotated bibliographies. Methods for assigning values for art objects are explored, and sources of price data, both in print and online, are identified and described in detail. In recent years, art historical scholarship increasingly has addressed issues related to the history of art and its markets: a chapter on resources for the historian of the art market offers a wide range of sources. Finally, provenance and art law are discussed, with particular reference to their relevance to dealers, collectors, artists and other art market stakeholders.
Publication Date: 2013
The Work of Art: value in creative careers by
Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of fabricators while others patiently teach schoolchildren how to finger-knit. All of these artists might well be shown in the same exhibition, the quality of work far more important than education or income in determining whether one counts as a "real" artist. In The Work of Art, Alison Gerber explores these art worlds to investigate who artists are (and who they're not), why they do the things they do, and whether a sense of vocational calling and the need to make a living are as incompatible as we've been led to believe. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two. The stories artists tell are just as much a part of artistic practice as putting brush to canvas or chisel to marble. By explaining the shared ways that artists account for their activities--the analogies they draw, the arguments they make--Gerber reveals the common bases of value artists point to when they say: what I do is worth doing. The Work of Art asks how we make sense of the things we do and shows why all this talk about value matters so much.
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Taking AIM! the business of being an artist today ; 1st ed. by
Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world. It demystifies often daunting and opaque practices through first-hand testimonials, interviews, and commentary from leading artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, critics, art consultants, arts administrators, art fair directors, auction house experts, and other art world luminaries. Published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Artist in the Marketplace (AIM)--the pioneering career development program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts--Taking AIM! The Business of Being an Artist Today mirrors the structure and topics featured in the AIM program's weekly workshops and discussions. Each chapter focuses on the specific perspective of an "art world insider"--from the artist to the public art program director to the blogger. Multiple viewpoints from a range of art professionals provide emerging artists with candid, uncensored information and tools to help them better understand this complex field and develop strategies for building and sustaining successful careers as professional artists. The book ends with an annotated chronology of the past three decades in the contemporary art field and a bibliography of publications, magazine articles, online sources, funding sources, residency programs, and other useful information for emerging artists.
Publication Date: 2011
Career Information
- Occupational Outlook Handbook - Arts and Design Occupations Employment in arts and design occupations is projected to grow 4 percent from 2020 to 2030, slower than the average for all occupations. About 37,000 new jobs are projected to be added. Workers will be needed to meet the demand for animation and visual effects in video games, movies, television, and on smartphones, as well as to help create visually appealing and effective layouts of websites and other media platforms.
- Young Arts Professionals - Americans for the Arts The arts in America cannot thrive without an empowered, connected and well-prepared next generation of arts leaders. For that reason, Americans for the Arts supports the growth of talented young arts professionals through programs like our Emerging Leaders Network, our Art Leadership Classrooms, our national and local convenings, and more.
- Art & Education The latest announcements from top art and educational institutions worldwide.
Contemporary Artists in Boston
- Boston Art Commission The Boston Art Commission (BAC) is an independent board of volunteers that approves and commissions innovative and transformative public artworks around the City in partnership with the Office of Arts and Culture.
- Boston Center for the Arts We are an incubator of new work; a celebration of process; progress in motion. We believe in equitable access to resources, opportunities, and experiences. We serve Boston’s working artists; patrons; neighbors—living, learning, and thriving together.
- Boston Sculptors Gallery Boston Sculptors Gallery’s mission is to provide a unique platform for a select group of Boston- and New England-area sculptors. and to present contemporary sculpture in a variety of media and genres, reflecting Boston’s diversity of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
- CoSo: Copley Society of Art The Copley Society of Art, Co|So, is the oldest non-profit arts association in the United States, with a history dating back to 1879. We currently represent over 300 living artist members, ranging in experience from students to nationally-recognized artists and in style from traditional and academic realists to contemporary and abstract painters, photographers, and sculptors.
- FPAC: Fort Point Arts Community The Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) builds cultural vibrancy in Boston by cultivating an empowered community of artists, organizations, and supporters. FPAC promotes the work of our artists to a broad and diverse audience, advocates for art opportunities, develops permanent, affordable live-work studio space and ensures that art is an essential part of the life of a creative city.
- MAAM: MassArt Art Museum The MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) is Boston’s newest museum, a space to experience works by visionary artists at the forefront of contemporary art. As MassArt's teaching museum, we are committed to educating and empowering the next generation of artists—both on our campus and throughout the world.
