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VISUAL ARTS
491 Gallery is a Sustainable Community Regeneration Art Project (SCRAP). A blueprint for community minded groups and individuals to reclaim otherwise neglected / derelict space and transform it into a positive, vibrant, and exciting community resource. 491 gallery is located at 491 Grove Green Road, Leyonstone, London E11 [www.491gallery.com]
Accesseble Art’s - this online art auction is (not exclusively) aimed at young British artists with original contemporary art work for sale. Accessseble art provides the forum to buy and sell art work ranging from affordable art from new emerging artists, to work from more established contemporary artists. As not-for-profit organisation, with the exception of admin costs, commission taken on all successful bids goes towards the setting up of a ‘grants for artists scheme’. [www.accessebleart.com]
ACME Studios - is a London based charity that supports fine art practice by providing artists with low cost studio and living space. ACME is now the largest organisation of its kind in the UK and is the leading development agency for artists studios. It currently provides space for 600 artists in London. It manages major residency programs for 6 foreign agencies from Australia, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland. [www.acme.org.uk]
AfricanColours - fulfils a facilitating and encouraging role, stimulating the arts community in Africa, through the promotion of arts and exchange of arts related information. Opportunities for artists are generated, they have access to a wider market and to a international network of information exchange. [www.africancolours.com]
Art Deadlines List - a monthly newsletter (via email or paper) with several hundred announcements (every month!) listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships & grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, festivals, funding, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages. [artdeadlineslist.com]
Art in the Public Interest (API) - is a non-profit organisation that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists. [www.apionline.org/apiinfo.html]
Art Culture Nature (CAN) - is an interdisciplinary organisation, which brings together artists and teachers in the fine and performing arts as well as environmentalists and educators in the humanities, sciences and social sciences who are interested in the study of the connections between the arts and environmental studies. [faculty.uwb.edu/kkochhar/ACN/welcome.htm]
Artists for Human Rights - is a group of Durban-based artists and human rights activists who continue to organise human rights projects since 1988. A few years ago, Artists for Human Rights was legally constituted as a registered Trust whose aims and objectives are to use the arts to assist in the creation of a human rights culture and in human rights education in South Africa as well as abroad. [www.ahr.org.za]
Atelier Nord – based in Norway, it is an international network that can help producing your projects through a joint venture. In such a cooperation Atelier Nord can take the full producer responsibility. Projects can be artworks, seminars, workshops, publications etc. [anart.no/?location=2&language=english&skin=2]
Artthrob - is South Africa's leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world. [www.artthrob.co.za]
Center for land use interpretation (CLUI) - is a research organisation involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission - engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, and exhibition. [www.clui.org]
City Kids Foundation (USA) - teenagers learn to improve their own educational status, become agents for social change, take action in community projects, and carry positive messages to their peers. “If you bring young people together from different racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds and challenge them to develop their own solutions, they will respond with energy, imagination, commitment and action”- they claim… [www.citykids.com] YXC
ecoartspace - is a non-profit organisation working internationally with individuals and organisations who are interested in creating radical approaches to restoring the earth. Using art as a tool, we aim to inspire communities into action when addressing environmental issues. [www.ecoartspace.org]
Manga's Green Heros - taking root in traditional Japanese beliefs such as Taoism and Shintoism, the belief that humans should work within and in the respect of nature is well reflected in today’s modern Japanese manga…[www.mit.edu/people/rei/manga-environmental.html] YXC
National Disability Arts Forum (NDAF) - aims to create equality of opportunity for UK disabled people in all aspects of the arts. The Forum's strategy is to create such opportunity promoting and supporting the development of Disability Arts from local to international levels and working with arts and other organisations in developing accessible arts environments. NDAF are also setting up an International Cultural Diversity and Disability Arts Database. [www.ndaf.org]
Orlo - is a nonprofit organisation using the creative arts to explore environmental issues. Over the years, Orlo productions have fallen into four main categories: art exhibitions, live performance work, publications, and public awareness campaigns. Orlo is developing programs that encourage understanding of cultural and social difference, and that promote dialogue concerning pertinent ecological issues. [www.orlo.org]
Rebirth African Art Gallery - aims to showcase disadvantaged, young and emerging African artists globally. Rebirth hope to provide a platform for African artist, by giving them the opportunity to sell and exhibit Art at fair market related prices to dealers, resellers and art lovers globally. [www.rebirth.co.za]
Social Sculpture Research Unit - is based within the multidisciplinary School of Art, Publishing and Music at Oxford Brookes University, UK. The unit promotes and addresses interdisciplinary creativity and the relationship between the aesthetic, social process and sustainable development. [www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/apm/social_sculpture]
SolArt Global Network – aims to bring artists together around specific works created outdoors with solar media. According to the promoters, the transition to a solar age must stabilize our civilisations, and in order to do so, it must be a cultural transition: “These works are using technology at its most advanced level, but only to strengthen the underlying values of a critical and creative redefinition of art in the biosphere.” [www2.khm.de/%7ESolArt/artOverview.html]
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