Americans for the Arts is the WWW site of the American Council for the Arts (ACA) on the Internet. ArtsUSA provides advocacy information, including relevant Congressional committees, how to contact members, current legislation regarding arts funding, and more. Barbra Streisand's speech promoting the NEA at Harvard University, the ACA Books Catalog, now reorganized and including on-line...

Open Studio: The Arts Online, an extensive network of technology training resources, provides artists and nonprofit arts organizations with Web-based tools and models to enhance online publication, communication, and creative expression. Recently relaunched by the Benton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Open Studio Website features a directory of connections to...

Artist colonies have always fascinated the American public, and whether they have been informally organized or not, they seem to provide great opportunities for a variety of collaborations. One of the oldest of these colonies is the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The colony was started in 1907 by the composer Edward MacDowell and his wife Marian, and over the past century it has...