Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
A non-profit arts and culture service agency dedicated to Northeast Ohio’s success. They offer business practice development programs and services for artists (attend The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute).
A political subdivision of the State of Ohio that provides funding generated by a tobacco excise tax. CAC uses its grant programs to support arts and culture in Cuyahoga County.
ArtSpace-Cleveland is dedicated to developing and sustaining affordable live/work space in Cleveland. Check out their trolley tours of area artists lofts.
A small business network that provides health care and professional development resources for artists.
An excellent way for artists interested in public projects to pursue public art commissions in Greater Cleveland and beyond.
A non-profit organization that promotes the arts in the Village of Peninsula and throughout Northeast Ohio, offering art instruction and educational programs.
Use their online guide to locate the Ohio grants you qualify for.
Go to the Foundation Center Library located on Euclid Ave Downtown and access their national grant database or purchase a membership and access everything from home.New York Foundation for the Arts
Register with their site and search their datebase for funding and calls for entry.
This website provides the quickest way to take action: click and send on-line letters to legislators telling them what you think.
Artslynx International Arts Resources
This site has tons of links to check out for more advocacy/arts-related issues.
The nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. They represent and serve local communities while creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Gain all the tools you need to advocate for the arts with their activist toolkit.
A performance and installation art collective that explores the intersections of art, technology, radical politics and critical theory.
Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund
This website explains the legal situation with the Critical Art Ensemble and provides resources and information on how you can advocate for and support CAE.
National Association of Artists' Organizations
NAAO provides valuable networking opportunities within the field, promotes the value of artist-driven initiatives to the broader public, and serves as a national voice for artists' organizations in forums that debate issues of cultural policy. [The National Association of Artists Organizations is the fiscal agent for the CAE defense fund.]
The National Coalition Against Censorship
Founded in 1974, this is an alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. Join this group as they defend our freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression.
A visual arts organization whose mission is to fulfill four basic needs: the education of the general public regarding the value of the visual arts to society; the advocacy of visual arts issues for members and the art community; the provision of professional and educational services for artists and the arts community; the improvement of the environment in which artists live and work.