art, music, paintings, artist, gallery, graphic artists, recording artists, women artists, contemporary artists, emerging artists, canadian artists, american artists, independent artists, artists books, unsigned artists The Artist Index of Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina directory of portfolios and websites of Artists of Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina http://www.theartistindex.com TRec Studio - Creative Studio Organization of performances, holidays, concerts, design studio, photo and video survey, writing of music on the order http://trecstudio.ru/ Chicago Arts District Information about the Chicago Arts District and its more than 30 galleries http://underthewire.biz/ The Union List of Artist Names The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists, and decorative artists) and architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation projects. The entire ULAN is available free of charge, allowing a search for artists or architects and retrieve their variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_rese... The-artists.org Resource of contemporary visual art, with links to multimedia, performance, photography and webart. http://www.the-artists.org/ Graphic Artists Guild Founded 1967, Detroit, USA. For American visual creatives (design, web, illustration). A union of professionals who have come together to pursue common goals, share their experience, raise industry standards, and improve their ability to achieve satisfying and rewarding careers. Producers of the book "Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines". http://www.gag.org/ AGAG - Animated Gifs Artists Guild The Guild is devoted to maintaining a standard of excellence in GIF animation, and has an archive of hundreds of free gifs. http://www.agag.com/