This handbook explores how thoughtfully designed cultural exchanges, both international and local, can lead to a greater understanding and acceptance of diversity. Successful exchanges are energising and liberating. They can result in enjoyment by local populations and provide useful international contact for artists and audiences alike. (from abstract)

Updated and revised, this handbook explains how to survive and thrive as an artist and face the issues raised by an artist's career, such as how to find a gallery, use matierlas safely, and win grants and commissions.

Based on San Francisco therapist Eric Maisel's years of counseling actors, writers, painters, dancers, and creative artists in other disciplines, as well as on his own writing career, [this book] offers a comprehensive look at psychological and business issues all artists inevitably face.

The focus of this report commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts is on four distinct groups of artists: authors, architects and designers, performing artists and artists who work with their hands. The report attempts to answer certain basic questions about where artists live and work and what they earn. Do they support their art or does it support them? How well did the growth and changes in art occupations over the two decades covered by the report keep pace with those of professionals in other fields with comparable education and training? The report also examines trends

This statistical and research supplement to the 1996-7 11 Occupational Outlook Handbook presents the detailed, comprehensive statistics used in preparing the handbook. It also discusses recent research results and other topics—information that should be valuable to training officials, education planners, vocational and employment counselors, job seekers, and others interested in occupational information.

The museum profession has been evolving in the over the past two hundred years, so it is not easy to define clearly what people do who work in museums. An amalgam of many professions within the museum has caused some to deny that there is a museum profession. But today, with an extensive body of literature, museological theories, professional and technical practices unique to museums, and codes of ethics, it is appropriate to take a closer look at museum careers as being in a profession.

This booklet provides a starting point for creating a successful studio tour. There are a variety of ways that these studio tours have been presented throughout California and we offer you some ideas in helping to develop your own. Included are questions to ask before you begin, samples of budgets, timelines, catalog formats, and ideas of what has been successful in other tours. Your responses to the questions will shape your event.

Attorney Jeanne English Sullivan looks at such issues as copyright in the digital age for the visual arts. She gives an overview of copyright law in the area of digital manipulation and transmission and discusses the challenges posed to the legal system. She takes readers through requirements for copyright of visual art materials under existing copyright law. Artistic works created using a computer and that are indefinitely reproducible are protected as well as multimedia works incorporating works of visual art; but how the laws apply is problematic. As Sullivan adds, any problems will be

The Alliance of Artists Communities new directory is an indispensable tool for artists, composers, and writers seeking residency opportunities. The directory, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz, provides two-page profiles and photographs of 70 of the nation's leading artists' communities, as well as an overview of the field of artists' communities and accounts by four artists of their residency experiences.

Listings are preceded by a profile of chamber music activities during the 1994-1995 season in the following cities and states: Alaska; Arizona, Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Hawaii; New York City; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Missouri; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; South Florida; Utah; Washington, DC.