| A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era |
| Study suggesting that the visual arts picture isn't as rosy as it first appears, despite record museum attendance, booming commercial popularity, soaring prices for artists' work and well-publicized museum expansions. Conflates "community involvement" with marketing. Written by Kevin F. McCarthy, et al. Published by RAND Corporation, 2005. |
| |
| African Children's Educational Trust |
| Small independent professional charity helping vulnerable young Africans through educational scholarships. Working through local organizations we now support 1,000+ children and 2 primary schools. |
| |
| Art for Humanity |
| Visual-arts organization based in South Africa promoting human-rights awareness. Specializes in print portfolios, exhibitions, billboards and research projects. Newsletter, HIV/AIDS program, "Women Artists and Poets Advocating Children's Rights." |
| |
| Art in General |
| New York nonprofit organization that assists artists with production/presentation of new work. Education Department has multiyear collaboration with neighboring public schools; collaborative curriculum building, final project designed by students. |
| |
| Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change |
| Online slide show by Tufts University College Student Programs Manager Mindy Nierenberg for a 2005 course in the Experimental College, showing Tufts undergraduates and Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts dual-degree students ways to use art as a vehicle of social change. |
| |
| Artists For a New South Africa |
| American artists helping the AIDS pandemic. |
| |
| ArtStor |
| Online digital library offering collections of art images and descriptive information and software tools for their use. Includes approx. 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. |
| |
| ArtThrob |
| Online magazine from South Africa about contemporary visual arts. Covers both national art world and South African artists on the international podium. Monthly, with news about artists and expositions, reviews, items, discussions and photos. |
| |
| Artists for Peace, Justice & Civil Liberties |
| Fine art gallery and anthology dedicated to peace and justice issues worldwide. |
| |
| Beaded Prayers Project |
| Three-part worldwide community art project: traveling exhibition (Beaded Blessings, over 4,000 beaded prayers inspired by African amulet traditions; each contributed piece is a sealed beaded packet containing written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of international participants), slide lectures (on accumulative community art projects and cultural traditions, amulets, beadwork), hands-on workshops (on making beaded proyaers). Video available. Directed by Sonya Clark. |
| |
| Break Arts Collective |
| International arts and learning collaborative. Text/image projects ihat encourage young people to imagine, create and express the stories of their lives. Arts workshops and residencies; training and professional development; consultation; advocacy. Directed by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire; established 2005. |
| |
| City Without Walls |
| Nonprofit art galery in Newark, N.J., for emerging artists. ArtReach mentorship program pairs promising high-school art students with working-artist mentors. Internship program. Founded 1975. |
| |
| Creative Defiance |
| Web site of Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies in which he uses advertising startegies and techniques to take on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights. |
| |
| Give Meaning |
| GiveMeaning.com is an online fundraising site emphasizing creative fundraising ideas and other unique forms of charity donation. |
| |
| HINT |
| Helps International (HINT) is a community development NGO situated in Buea, Cameroon whose mission is to improve the social and economic well-being and health of the poor and under privileged in our society through education, skill development and job creation. |
| |
| International Peace Tiles Project |
| Tiled murals by hundreds of children and youth affected by, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS around the world. Exhibited worldwide on World AIDS Day, December 1. |
| |
| KIVA |
| Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. |
| |
| Left Curve |
| Left Curve is an artist produced magazine of critical thought and aesthetics. It seeks to build "a culture that could potentially create a more harmonious relationship among people, and between the human and natural world." |
| |
| Life in Africa Foundation |
| Images, true stories and concrete ways to make a low-cost but lasting impact on the lives of the African poor. |
| |
| Make Art Not War |
| Features modern-day peace posters by international artists. |
| |
| Museum of the African Diaspora |
| San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers." |
| |
| National Institute for Arts and Disabilities |
| NIAD (National Institute of Art and Disabilities) is an innovative visual arts center assisting adults with developmental and other physical disabilities located in Richmond, CA. |
| |
| PapaInk |
| International archive of children’s visual art supported by volunteer network of academicians, artists, teachers, parents and children. |
| |
| Paper for All |
| A registered charity that provides academic resources to about 700 impoverished children in several elementary schools in Burkina Faso, Africa. |
| |
| Painter in Oil |
| The Painter in Oil discusses technical matters like what canvas to use, what ground to cover the canvas with, what brushes to use and the effects they give, the qualities of mediums and pigments, and other vitally important issues concerning oil painting. The ART RENEWAL CENTER benevolently posted Parkhurst's entire book online. Painters are encouraged to study this 10 part online treatise. Even if you have no interest in classical painting... there is much to be learned from Parkhurst's writings. |
| |
| Poverty Eradication Network Trust |
| (PEN Trust) is a non profit serving the needy of Dodoma and Singida regions in central Tanzania through education and nutrition programs. |
| |
| River of Words |
| International environmental poetry and art contest for children on the theme of "watersheds," encouraging children to learn their "ecological address" and to describe through art their own "place in space." |
| |
| Ripple Africa |
| Our mission is help young Malawians reach their potential through the development of local education. |
| |
| The Allen Foundation |
| The Allen Foundation is a public non-profit charitable foundation whose mission is to assist underserved Tanzanian women and in turn their families, through community development. http://www.theallenfoundation.org/ |
| |
| Two Sisters |
| Two Sisters - the brainchild of Patrick and Conney Thibedi. The charity, based in north-east South Africa, supports orphans of the AIDS epidemic that is devastating much of the African continent. |
| |
| Ufosa Foundation |
| Uniting aid in Education, Family Wellbeing and Health across South Africa in its far-reaching 5-year development programme |
| |
| Recommend a Link |
| |
| If you would like to recommend a link that you believe would be valuable to include on this site, please
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
. We do ask that you respect the fact that this site has a specific research and educational focus and we only consider links that fall inside those interests. We will review your recommendation and add it to our database if we feel it would be a valuable addition to our readers. Our Network promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts. |
| |
