ARTS 4012: Senior Studio Seminar: Organizations & web sites

The Graphic Artists Guild’s primary purpose is to help our members compete effectively in an ever-changing field. We enable graphic artists and other design professionals to build and maintain successful careers by providing skills and support—from advice on the daily tasks of running a creative business to going to bat for our creative community with business and government leaders.

The NAIA provides an online forum for artists to communicate with one another and with show directors and other voices in the arts community.

The Professional Artist Institute is a global organization that promotes real world education for visual artists: painters, sculptors and fine art photographers.

The VAA’s mission is to transform Artists lives by offering a clear pathway to succeed commercially in their art business, giving them more time to create.

Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography,” Aperture is a multi-platform publisher and center for the photo community. Aperture publishes a magazine (available in print at Jerome Library) and books and also sponsors events and prizes. Twitter: @aperturefnd

A nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing and promoting important contemporary art, Art21's website is rich with content, including a digital magazine and many video features. Twitter: @art21 | Instagram: art21

Art collection site that includes pieces from current artists; great for seeing what is being created.

Quarterly magazine of art and culture. Cabinet is designed to encourage a new culture of curiosity, one that forms the basis both for an ethical engagement with the world as it is and for imagining how it might be otherwise

Frieze bills itself as "the definitive resource for contemporary art and culture." The media company publishes a magazine (available in print in Jerome Library), sponsors art fairs, and offers courses. Its website includes the feature "On View," which highlights current exhibitions. Twitter: @frieze_magazine | Instagram: frieze_magazine

A magazine and blog for "playful, serious and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today." Twitter: @hyperallergic | Instagram: hyperallergic

Professional Artist magazine provides independent visual artists with the insights, encouragement, and strategies they need to make a living with their artwork.