Arts Alliance Indiana (AAI)
Arts Alliance Indiana, Inc. is a nonprofit statewide arts service organization founded in 1986 and based in Indianapolis. The mission of Arts Alliance Indiana is to advance community arts and aid in the creation of cultural opportunities statewide by providing capacity building resources to arts providers www.artsalliancein.org
The Indiana Filmmakers Network
The Indiana Filmmakers Network works to facilitate dialogue among film and video makers in the state of Indiana. They endeavor to foster a creative community that provides support, camaraderie and resources to those working to see their visions become reality. Gatherings are open to all with Hoosier connections who wish to participate. Casual networking is the second Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm at Net Heads in Broadripple. Their Filmmakers Showcase is a chance to present work, or work in progress, on a giant movie screen in a total theatre setting. See www.keycinemas.com/filmmakers.htm for guidelines. www.ifnweb.org
Indiana Music Educators Association
The State Affliate of the National Association for Music Educators, the IMEA strives to meet the needs of Indiana's music educators and their students. www.imeamusic.org
Indiana Chapter of the American String Teachers Association
The State Affliate of the American String Teachers Association with the National School Orchestra Association. www.inasta.org
Indiana Theatre Association
The Indiana Theatre Association (ITA) is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1974 to stimulate cooperative development of theater at all levels within the state of Indiana. They provide a central clearing agency for the exchange of theatrical information, personnel, and materials. Membership is open to any individual or group who supports the purpose of ITA. www.intheatre.org
Indiana State Museum
The Indiana State Museum & Historic Sites is a division of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, with 17 historic sites throughout the state. The division's mission is to collect, preserve and interpret the natural and cultural history of the State of Indiana for past, present and future generations. http://www.state.in.us/ism/
VSA arts of Indiana
VSAI has a mission to educate through quality arts experiences, advocate for children with disabilities, and provide access to the arts to all individuals. VSAI is a state affiliate of Very Special Arts. This national organization has been designated by the United States Congress as the coordinating agency for arts programs for people with disabilities. http://www.vsai.org/
Young Audiences of Indiana
Young Audiences of Indiana is the oldest and largest provider of professional arts education programs for children in the state. "YA" works with over 100 artists and arts organizations in the community to provide young people with the opportunity to experience the arts directly. It is the mission of Young Audiences of Indiana to develop the potential of young people as creative and productive human beings by promoting the arts as an essential part of their education: "all the arts for all the kids." www.yaindy.org/
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Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. They are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
www.americansforthearts.org
Arts Midwest
Arts Midwest connects the arts to audiences throughout the nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Annually, cultural programs initiated by Arts Midwest - including performances by high-quality theater, dance, and music ensembles; arts educational activities; visual arts exhibitions; and conferences - reach close to a million people, enhancing the quality of life in hundreds of cities, towns, and rural areas across the Midwest. The IAC is a primary partner of Arts Midwest. www.artsmidwest.org
American Memory-Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American Memory is a gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Features for teachers include: getting started, lesson plans and activities, collection connections, and an e-community for sharing. All lessons are teacher created and classroom tested. There is a separate topic for art and architecture, performing arts, and many other cross curricular activites. www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu
Association of Perfoming Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters)
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is a membership organization, dedicated to bringing performing artists and audiences together in every place and way imaginable. Their 1,600+ members in the United States, Canada, and internationally range from large performing arts centers in major urban centers, to small presenters in rural communities, and include artists, artists' managers, and other performing arts professionals. www.artspresenters.org
The Center for Arts and Culture
The Center for Arts and Culture is an independent think tank that aims to broaden and deepen the national conversation on culture and cultural policies. Founded in 1994 in Washington, DC, the Center is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization, supported by foundations and governed by a board of directors. Its mission is to enlarge the public vision of the centrality of the arts and culture in everyday life. Through its Art, Culture & the National Agenda project, the Center identified seven areas where policies intersect with cultural issues: Law, Globalization, Access, Preservation, Community, Investment, and Education. www.culturalpolicy.org
Education at the Met: Arts Educator Programs
Education at the Met Educator programs are designed to help further music and arts education in schools across the nation. Opera is a powerful medium for learning about all of the arts - music, theater, dance and the visual arts - as well as about history, literature and foreign language. By working directly with teachers they have created programs that make opera accessible and exciting to people of all ages and backgrounds. The Educator Programs teach classroom teachers, music teachers and teaching artists how to use opera as a unique and lively vehicle for learning, working with teachers to incorporate opera as part of their school curriculum and to provide a continuity of experiences for young people. www.operaed.org
HistoryWired at the Smithsonian
"HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things" is an experimental program through which you can take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History. The initial 450 objects, selected by curators from across the Museum, include famous, unusual, and everyday items with interesting stories to tell. www.historywired.si.edu
The National Arts and Disability Center
The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) is the national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC is dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual, performing, media, and literary-arts communities. http://nadc.ucla.edu/
National Arts Education Research Center
A number of informative research reports resulted from the New York University and the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) sites of the National Arts Education Research Center. Through co-funding by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Education beginning in 1987, the Center pursued studies on a wide variety of topics relevant to arts education. www.arts.gov/pub/NARC_Publications.html
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. NASAA's mission is to advance and promote a meaningful role for the arts in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the United States. www.nasaa-arts.org
National Gallery of Art Online Tours
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. There are many exciting resources on their website. Resources include streaming slideshows, a web tour of the week, guides to the paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, works on paper, and architech. http://www.nga.gov/onlinetours/onlinetr.htm
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
Provides service, advocacy and leadership for a diverse constituency of community arts education organizations located in urban, suburban and rural communities throughout the United States. The Guild currently has 317 member institutions serving more than 400,000 students through weekly instruction and tens of thousands more through exposure to a multitude of arts activities. www.nationalguild.org
SOHO Art Galley-Sydney Australia
SOHO galleries is a exciting commercial gallery, established in Sydney in March '95, to provide young to mid-career Australian and New Zealand artists with the space and exposure to place artworks in today's contemporary corporate and domestic environments. http://www.sohogalleries.net/
US Department of Education: Arts Resources
The US Department of Education maintains an online library of arts learning resources in many disciplines. The links include resources from the Library of Congress, National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institutes, National Gallery of Art, National Park Services and many others. Topics include architechture lessons that explore Triumphs of the Baroque, concepts by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the floorplans of a Vieux-Carre Creole Townhome. The site includes many more resources on music, art history, architecture, and photography. www.ed.gov/free/s-arts.html
VSA arts
VSA arts is an International organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organization offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts implemented primarily through our vast affiliate network in 39 states and the District of Columbia, collaborators in 10 states, and 70 international affiliates in 67 countries. VSA arts' programs now serve 4.3 million Americans and 1.3 million people in other parts of the world. www.vsarts.org
WESTAF
WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. Based in Denver, Colorado, WESTAF helps strengthen the financial, organizational and policy infrastructure of the arts by providing innovative programs and services to artists and arts organizations in the West and nationwide. WESTAF is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the state arts agencies of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming; private and corporate foundations; and individuals. www.westaf.org
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