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Organizations are listed in alphabetical order by name.
Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington DC 20005,
URL: www.artsusa.org
Description: National organization for groups and individuals dedicated to advancing the arts and culture in communities throughout the United States. Sponsors a Job Bank.
Association of Arts Administration Educators, c/o Barbara Harkins, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706.,
Email: bharkins@bus.wisc.edu
URL: www.artsadministration.org
Description: A nonprofit organization created to advocate formal training and high standards of education for arts administrators. Web site provides links to graduate and undergraduate programs in arts admistration and other resources.
Chicago Artists' Coalition, Online Job Bank, 217 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago, IL 60607,
Email: info@caconline.org
URL: chicagoartistscoalition.org
Description: An online listing of employment opportunities for artists in the Chicago area. Available to members of the Chicago Artists' Coalition.
Hospital Audiences, Inc., 548 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012,
Email: hai@hospaud.org
URL: www.hospitalaudiences.org
Description: Brings visual and performing art programs to New Yorkers who are confined in hospitals, healthcare facilities, shelters, etc.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artists & Communities, 201 North Charles Street, Suite 401, Baltimore, MD 21201,
URL: www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/communities/index.html
Description: Sponsors Artists & Communities residency program involving artists from Washington DC, New Jersey, New York , and Pennsylvania. Hosts and online directory of participating artists.
National Network for Artist Placement (The), 935 West Avenue 37, Los Angeles, CA 90065,
Description: Provides artists with career counseling, and employment and survival skill services.
National Training Program for Hospital Artists-in-Residence, The Creative Center, 273 Bowery, New York, NY 10002,
Email: info@thecreativecenter.org
URL: thecreativecenter.org/National_Programs
Description: Provides professional training to artists worldwide to work with cancer patients in their hometown, medical centers, clinics, and hospitals.
Prison Arts Project, William James Association, P.O. Box 1632, Santa Cruz, CA 95061,
Email: wja@cruzio.com
URL: www.williamjamesassociation.org
Description: Open to visual and performing artists interested in conducting workshops in California correctional facilities.
Professionals for NonProfits, 515 Madison Avenue, Suite 900, New York, NY 10022 and, 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 501, Washington DC 20006,
URL: www.pnp-inc.com
Description: An employment agency that offers part-time and full-time temporary and permanent positions to people intersted in working for arts-related organizations.


Publications are listed in alphabetical order by title.
Title: Artists' Assets: A Guide to Artist Resources
Description: Revised edition. A resource guide for artists in Washington State. Includes information about employment opportunities.
Publisher: Artist Trust
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher's Address: Artist Trust, 1835 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122,
Email: info@artisttrust.org
URL: www.artisttrust.org/services/AA
Title: Career Opportunities in Art. A Comprehensive Guide to the Exciting Careers Open to You in Art
Author/Editor: Susan H. Haubenstock, David Joselit & Elise Rosen, editors
Description: Provides information on 83 specific jobs for people with art experience, art education, or ambition to work in the arts.
Publisher: Facts on File, Inc.
Publication Date: 2001
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Title: Career Solutions for Creative People. How to Balance Artistic Goals with Career Security
Author/Editor: Dr. Ronda Ormont
Description: Focuses on how to find the time and freedom to pursue art while making a stable living.
Publisher: Allworth Press
Publication Date: 2001
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Title: Careers by Design. A Business Guide for Graphic Design
Author/Editor: Roz Goldfarb
Description: Revised. Discusses jobs, hiring practices, salaries, portfolios, resumes, networking, headhunters, freelancing, and more.
Publisher: Allworth Press and the American Council for the Arts
Publication Date: 2002
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Title: Careers for Nonconformists: A Practical Guide to Finding and Developing a Career Outside the Mainstream
Author/Editor: Sandra Gurvis
Description: Covers a multitude of careers in which people can shine and be authentic.
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
Publication Date: 1999
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Title: Careers in Art
Author/Editor: Blythe Camenson
Description: Revised. Breaks down specific educational requirements and additional training needed for particular jobs.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2006
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Title: Careers in Art. An Illustrated Guide
Author/Editor: Gerald F. Brommer and Joseph A. Gatto
Description: Covers hundreds of visual arts professions and gives practical advice on the necessary steps required to be successful in those careers.
Publisher: Davis Publications
Publication Date: 1999
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Title: Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion (The)
Author/Editor: Julius Vitali
Description: Revised edition. Provides background information about teaching residency opportunities in the arts. See the chapter "Artists-in-Education."
Publisher: Allworth Press
Publication Date: 2003
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Title: Gardner's Guide to Internships at Multimedia and Animation Studios
Author/Editor: Garth Gardner
Description: Revised. Profiles hundreds of computer graphics, animation, and multimedia companies in the USA and Canada that offer internships.
Publisher: Garth Gardner, Inc.
Publication Date: 2004
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Title: Gardner's Guide to Internships in New Media: Computer Graphics, Animation and Multimedia
Author/Editor: Gardiner Garth and Bonney Ford
Description: Revised. Profiles hundreds of companies in the visual effects industry who offer interships.
Publisher: GGC, Inc.
Publication Date: 2002
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Title: Heart and Soul Resumes
Author/Editor: Chuck Cochran and Donna Peerce
Description: Advice on how to prepare creative resumes for job searching. Includes 20 real-life resume makeovers.
Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing
Publication Date: 1998
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Title: How to Make Money Performing in Schools: The Definitive Guide to Developing, Marketing, and Presenting School Assembly Programs
Author/Editor: David Heflick
Description: Includes information on how to design a show that utilizes your talents and meets the educational needs of the school, and more.
Publisher: Silcox Productions
Publication Date: 1997
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Title: How to Run Seminars & Workshops: Presentation Skills for Consultants, Trainers and Teachers
Author/Editor: Robert L. Jolles
Description: Provides effective techniques for winning over an audience, holding their interest, and conveying important information. A step-by-step self-teaching guide that provides the confidence and the techniques speakers need to survive and thrive in front of an audience.
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication Date: 2005
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Title: How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist
Author/Editor: Caroll Michels
Description: Revised edition. See chapter "Generating Income: Alternatives to Driving a Cab." Revised edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication Date: 2009
Email: carollmichels@gmail.com
URL: www.carollmichels.com
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Title: Marketing and Promoting Your Own Seminars and Workshops
Author/Editor: Fred Gleeck
Publisher: Fred Gleeck
Publication Date: 2003
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Title: More Than Once in a Blue Moon: Multiple Jobholdings by American Artists
Author/Editor: Neil O. Alper and Gregory H. Wassall
Description: Published in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts, Research Division Report #40. Results of the first systematic study about artists and "moonlighting."
Publisher: Seven Locks Press
Publication Date: 2000
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Title: Opportunities in Visual Arts Careers
Author/Editor: Mark Salmon and Bill Barrett
Description: Offers information about a variety of careers in the field of visual arts, including training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Books
Publication Date: 2001
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Title: Photographer's Assistant (The)
Author/Editor: John Kieffer
Description: Revised edition. Information on how to become a photographer's assistant; the skills and personal attributes professionals seek; how they hire assistants; technical tips on lighting, camera equipment, etc.
Publisher: Allworth Press
Publication Date: 2001
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Title: What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers
Author/Editor: Richard Nelson Bolles
Description: Revised regularly.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Publication Date: 2008
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Title: Work We Were Born to Do (The): Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Author/Editor: Nick Williams and Robert Holden
Description: Offers insights to explore the infinite possibilities inherent in every human being.
Publisher: HarperCollins London
Publication Date: 1999
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Title: Work With Passion: How To Do What You Love for a Living
Author/Editor: Nancy Anderson
Description: Revised. Shows how finding one's niche and following one's passion are the most effective and rewarding approaches to a career. Revised edition.
Publisher: New World Library
Publication Date: 2004
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Periodicals are listed in alphabetical order by title.
Title: ArtSearch
Description: A national employment-service bulletin for jobs in the performing arts and arts administration.
Frequency: Bi-Weekly
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publisher's Address: ArtSearch, Theatre Communications Group, 520 8th Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156,
Email: tcg@tcg.org
URL: www.tcg.org/artsearch
Title: Current Jobs in Art
Description: A national listing of employment opportunities for new and early-career art graduates.
Frequency: Other
Publisher: Foster Opportunities, Inc.
Publisher's Address: Foster Opportunities, Inc., P.O. Box 3494, Falls Church, VA 22043-0494,
URL: www.graduatejobs.com
Title: Teaching Artist Journal
Description: A professional development resource for teaching artists edited by Nick Jaffe, Center for Arts Policy.
Frequency: Quarterly
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Publisher's Address: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah, NJ 07430-2262,
URL: www.leaonline.com


Web Sites are listed in alphabetical order by title.
Title: Art & Design Career Employment
Description: Sponsored by the Department of Art & Design, Northern Michigan University. Includes large contact lists in the fields of new media, graphics, photography, film, video, museums, architecture, and teaching.
URL: art.nmu.edu/department/AD_Career.html
Title: ArtCareer Network
Description: A fee-based site devoted to employment and educational opportunities in the visual arts, and opportunities for artists.
URL: www.artcareer.net
Title: Artjobonline
Description: A biweekly listing of positions in visual and performing arts, literature, education, and arts administration. Sponsored by the Western States Arts Federation.
Email: artjob@westaf.org
URL: www.artjob.org
Title: ArtPRIDE
Description: New Jersey’s on-line Arts Job Bank. Lists opportunities for arts professionals and students seeking jobs and internships at arts organizations in New Jersey.
URL: www.artpridenj.com/jobbank/joblist.php
Title: Association of Arts Administration Educators
Description: Provides links to arts administration undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities.
URL: www.artsadministration.org/find
Title: Chronicle Careers
Description: Lists employment information for faculty, administrators, and executives in art, art history, communication, and the performing arts from more than 1,200 institutions. Sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
URL: chronicle.com/jobs
Title: eLance
Description: A fee-based site for freelancers to list their skills and search for work. Includes the fields of graphic design, illustration, and animation.
URL: www.elance.com
Title: higherCulture.org
Description: Listing of creative administrative, production, volunteer and internship opportunities in Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
URL: www.hireculture.org/jobbook/index.asp
Title: HigherEdJobs.com
Description: Lists faculty positions and part-time adjunct positions at colleges, including those in the art field.
URL: www.higheredjobs.com
Title: Job Bank (The)
Description: Lists of opportunities in arts and arts administration in the greater Washington DC area. Sponsored by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington.
URL: www.cultural-alliance.org/programs/jobank.html
Title: MatchBook.org
Description: A cultural marketplace designed to bring together New England’s performing and teaching artists and the people and organizations that want to present them. Sponsored by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, in partnership with state arts agencies of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
URL: www.matchbook.org
Title: NYFA Source
Description: An extensive database for visual and performing artists, writers, and arts organizations. Includes employment opportunities. Sponsored by the New York Foundation forthe Arts in conjunction with the Urban Institute.
URL: www.nyfa.org
Title: NYFA Teaching Artist Source
Description: The New York Foundation for the Arts offers a new service for artists who teach. The Teaching Artist Source is an on-line information service and telephone/email hotline for teaching artists. Use this service to find information on teaching opportunities, grants, services, and publications specifically for teaching artists on the local, regional, state and national level. Hotline: 800-593-3298
Email: teachingartistsource@nyfa.org
URL: www.nyfa.org/teachingartistsource
Title: SchoolShows
Description: A national directory of performers who present assemblies, workshops, and residencies in schools.
Email: office@schoolshows.com
URL: www.schoolshows.com
Title: Telecommuting Jobs
Description: Fee-based listing of jobs for artists in the telecommunications field.
URL: www.tjobs.com/index.shtml