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Meininger's has researched the web to find the best and most informative links out there. We've organized them by national and regional organizations, museums, art resources and art schools. This list is updated regularly so bookmark this page and check back often. And, if you know of a great visual arts site that should be on our list, send us an email and let us know!



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ART SCHOOLS - Regional

Adams State College, Alamosa
Art has the ability to provoke, stimulate, and inspire. The mission of the Art Department is to draw on this statement and develop in students the breadth of understanding necessary to explore new ideas and challenge convention. Our aim is to enable students to make the greatest art of all: art that makes a difference.

Arapahoe Community College Art Department
With over 14,000 feet of studio space, and an art library containing over 12,000 slides, we provide a strong two-year foundation for both the degree and non-degree seeking student. Our studio classes range in size from 12 to 18 students, with considerable individual instruction within a supportive atmosphere. Day, night, and weekend classes are offered each semester to accomodate needs of a broad range of students.

Art Institute of Colorado
Creative people require creative careers. They've been preparing for them at The Art Institute of Colorado for over 49 years. Now that we have entered the 21st century, our world is more visual and more dynamic than at any time in history. There are more career opportunities in creative fields than ever before. The Art Institute of Colorado leads the way to these opportunities.

Art Students League of Denver
Information on The Art Students League of Denver, a nonprofit art school whose mission is to provide quality fine arts instruction to adults and children of all abilities in a noncompetitive environment at a low cost.

College of Arts and Media, Department of Visual Arts, CU Denver
An educational environment where artists and art historians of promise and motivation can explore the horizons of their own talents in the midst of intense critical dialogue generated by their peers; by distinguished visiting artists, scholars, and critics; and by a faculty comprising of artists and art historians of acknowledged accomplishment.

Colorado Academy of Art
Located near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, CO, CAA offers classes and workshops in classical fine art including sculpture, painting and drawing. CAA's Foundation program offers classical training for serious students who aspire to become professional artists.

Colorado University at Boulder, Department of Art and Art History
Committed to the creative production and historical study of the visual arts. It is an innovative, cross-disciplinary, and student-centered program characterized by excellence in art history, ceramics, drawing & painting, photography, digital media, printmaking, sculpture and video.

Cottonwood Artists School
Located in the Depot Arts District in Colorado Springs, CO, Cottonwood Artists School offers classes and workshops, gallery spaces and artists studios.

Mesa State Art Department, Grand Junction
Committed to offering instruction that helps students acquire skill and achieve an understanding of the fundamentals of art production. New state of the art facilities completed in 2002 enable students to experience and express themselves creatively. Our class sizes offer students the ability to have individualized attention from faculty. This personal attention is also focused on in the department’s advising and helps student’s plan course work and graduate.

Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC)
PPCC has a proud tradition of helping people get a fresh start - a start toward completion of a degree, a start toward a better job, a start toward a better and more enriching life. Treat yourself to one of the best Fine Arts Programs in Colorado. PPCC currently has three full- time and one half-time faculty members and 28 part time instructors, teaching between 120 and 140 different disciplines.

Platt College
Platt College is a graphic art and design school in Aurora Colorado. We offer certificates, AA, and BA degrees. We also offer classes in web design and multimedia.

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
At Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, you'll learn from faculty who approach teaching carefully and seriously. And you'll meet students who encourage one another to reach the highest levels of achievement.

School of Art and Art History, University of Denver
The School of Art and Art History is committed to teaching the technical and creative processes of art, methods of analyzing and criticizing visual culture and the diverse histories of art. We educate students to think critically, to engage in the art making process, to express themselves creatively, to articulate their ideas clearly, and to make significant contributions to the society in which they live. Our faculty teaches by example through their creative activity, scholarship, and public service.

Working with Artists
To enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve by encouraging individual expression and communication through arts education. Working with Artists creates programs that inspire and support professional artists and aspiring artists of all ages and from all walks of life. The pursuit of a personal creative vision is an essential endeavor for an artist working in any medium.

ORGANIZATIONS - National & International

American Memory
The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text.

Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts works with cultural organizations, arts, business and government leaders and patrons to provide leadership, research, visibility, professional development and advocacy to advance support and resources for the arts in communities across the country.

Art Dealers Association of America
The Art Dealers Association of America is a nonprofit membership organization whose purposes are to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice and to increase public awareness of the role and responsibilities of reputable art dealers.

Art Museum Network
Official web site of the world's leading art museums. Includes calendar of exhibitions all over the world.

Artlynx International
List of art-related, international links organized by publications, museums, organizations, research tools, and education.

ArtsEdge
The mission of ArtsEdge is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum.

ArtSource
Selective site works as a gathering point for networked resources on art and architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians.

ArtsWire
Communications network for the arts community that enables contemporary artists to create and share their work and provides the broader public with opportunities to experience and understand the arts.

Council for Art Education, Inc. (CFAE)
In 1984, the Council for Art Education, Inc. (CFAE) was created by The Art and Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI) to administer the national Youth Art Month program and to encourage funding for the program.

National Art Education Association
To promote art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership. NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization.

National Association of Independent Artists
The group's purpose is to enhance the economic well-being of people who exhibit their work at high quality outdoor and indoor art and/or fine craft shows, encourage creative expression and artistic excellence, and expand public awareness, appreciation and acquisition of American art and fine craft.


National Endowment for the Arts
The arts reflect the past, enrich the present, and imagine the future. The National Endowment for the Arts, an investment in America's living cultural heritage, serves the public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments.

The Taos Art School
Art workshops and art expeditions in the heart of the southwest, Taos, New Mexico, USA. Founded in 1996 in order to create a unique school with a special emphasis on creativity, Native American authenticity, compelling class locations, equine art and spirituality.

World Childrens Museum
Committed to using art conceived through the eyes of children to promote peace and understanding among people of the world.

ORGANIZATIONS - Regional

Art Adventures
Are you ready to experience a different type of art workshop? If so, pack your enthusiasm and sense of adventure as Susan and Lee lead you on a wonderful adventure in art workshops around the world.

Art for the Mountain Community
Endeavors to place high-quality, enduring art in public places in the mountain area of Jefferson County, and of encouraging the expression and appreciation of art through education and other public activities and programs. We invite anyone who is interested in furthering our mission to get involved in whatever way they can.

Art Students League of Denver
Information on The Art Students League of Denver, a nonprofit art school whose mission is to provide quality fine arts instruction to adults and children of all abilities in a noncompetitive environment at a low cost.

Artlynx Colorado
Links to Colorado's art, theater, dance, and music.

ArtReach
Established in 1974, ArtReach, Inc. is a Colorado nonprofit arts and human services organization whose mission is "changing lives through the arts."

Arts for Colorado
Arts for Colorado is a statewide nonprofit (501-C4) organization dedicated to improving the climate for culture throughout the state. Because public sector funding—and particularly state arts funding— has played an important role in building Colorado's cultural infrastructure, Arts for Colorado focuses much of its attention on the preservation and expansion of state arts support.

Arts to Zoo
Region's premier arts events listing site, bringing members, patrons and customers to their venues. Informs arts professionals and the public on the importance of integrating arts and cultural organizations into the mainstream of online culture.

Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities
Offers year-round theater, concerts and dance; art galleries with changing exhibitions, a historical museum; and classes in ceramics, dance, writing, acting, visual arts and more.

Aurora Arts Guild
Dedicated to providing artists in Aurora and the surrounding areas an opportunity to work together, encourage one another, educate and promote fine arts as a group. Our members are professional as well as amateur artists. Each month we have a high level demonstration as part of our meeting.

Blair-Caldwell African-American Research Library
To serve as an educational and cultural resource for the people of Denver, Colorado, and the world, focusing on the history, literature, art, music, religion, and politics of African Americans in Colorado and throughout the Rocky Mountain West. The Library is at 2401 Welton St., Denver, CO, 80205, (720) 865-2401.

Boulder Open Studios
Nonprofit organization provides forum in which the Boulder public can gain a broader awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the visual arts through personal visits to artists' private studios.

Carbondale Council on the Arts and Humanities
CCAH fosters a multicultural community in which all forms of the arts and humanities flourish by encouraging, funding, and supporting artistic expression.

Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC)
A consortium of artists, individuals and organizations dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Chicano/Latino culture, which has included visual arts, musicians, actors, dancers, writers, poets, educators, social scientists, community activists, and business people. Over the years, CHAC'S members have participated in festivals, artistic events, and presented programs on Chicano/Latino history and culture.

Colorado Alliance for Arts Education
Since its inception in 1976, the Alliance has developed and supported innovative collaborations between schools, arts organizations, and cultural institutions to promote the arts as equal partners in education.

Colorado Art Education Association
The primary purpose of CAEA is to advance, improve, encourage, and stimulate the quality of education in the visual arts in the state of Colorado.

Colorado Art Ranch
A nonprofit nomadic artist and writer's residency and Artposium. The program travels to two Colorado towns each year and adopts themes that reflect the area's heritage, natural resources, topography and people. The program is composed of two parts: a two-day Artposium and a one-month residency.

Colorado Artists Guild
In 1908 an idea was sparked to create a formal group whose goal was to encourage and gain public support for the fine arts. It was not until 1928 that this goal was realized and The Denver Artists Guild was born. In 1990 the name was changed to Colorado Artists Guild.

Colorado Arts Consortium
The Arts help us understand the human experience and in so doing build and nurture strong communities. The Colorado Arts Consortium's vision is to integrate the arts into the core of community life because the arts are essential to the development of the human spirit and potential. The Colorado Arts Consortium brokers ideas, resources, and services among communities, organizations, and individuals.

Colorado Arts Net
Born as a vision to wire Colorado with leading arts connections like no other site, Colorado Arts Net is the most comprehensive and best organized arts web site in all of Colorado, and the most diverse, with scores of pages in dozens of sections. It covers more disciplines and genres of arts and entertainment than any other site.

Colorado Council on the Arts
The Colorado Council on the Arts (CCA) was created in 1967 by an act of the Colorado State Legislature to stimulate arts development in the state, to assist and encourage artists and arts organizations, and to help make the arts more accessible to the people of Colorado.

Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
Established in 1974, the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities (CEH) sponsors and provides support for humanities programming throughout the state. These programs typically include local history exhibits, free public lectures, radio programs, and Chautauqua performances.

Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park
Dedicated to supporting all forms of art in the greater Estes Valley, they provide free or affordable arts programming and act as a vital information and support resource for the arts community. Their overall mission is to ensure that the arts are an essential part of the cultural environment in the greater Estes Valley.

The Dairy Center for the Arts
The Dairy Center for the Arts provides an affordable home for artists & art organizations & encourages appreciation & advancement of the arts in Boulder & surrounding communities through programming, education, advocacy & outreach.

Denver Allied Arts Guild
To promote a high quality of original work among its member artists through critiques, exhibits, lectures, workshops and demonstrations and to encourage interest in the allied arts.

denverarts.org
Dedicated to promoting the visual arts in Denver via an informational website featuring current events and gallery listings, arts workshops, studio tours and artist lectures
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Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is devoted to encouraging arts and cultural activities in Denver. We hope to enliven communities with arts projects and cultural festivals to enhance pride in our heritage, in the diverse communities found throughout the metropolitan area.

Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)
A non-profit art organization designed for kids. DAVA's programs include OASIS (a free open studio after school), job training/art internship with more structured arts programs in all media, computer art lab, portable art school and the DAVA Gallery at 1405 Florence Street.

Englewood Cultural Arts Center Association
The Englewood Cultural Arts Center will focus on arts education and performances by combining three exciting elements – an innovative education center, a multi-stage performance venue and convenient conference spaces.

Evergreen Artists Association
Evergreen Artists' Association EAA was founded in 1958 by a group of artists who joined forces to provide mutual support and an organization for the advancement of the visual arts in the mountain community.

Evergreen Arts Council
The Arts Council promotes the Arts through our Arts in the Schools Program, through our highly successful Summerfest and Winterfest Fairs and our Art at the Lake Program. The Arts Council presents an annual Arts Person of the Year award at our Art Attack Celebration and produces an Arts Newsletter and Arts Guide.

Foothills Art Center
A 35-year-old non-profit arts resource for Golden and the Denver Metro area as well as for the state, the Southwest, and through competitive exhibitions and invitational opportunities for artists across the nation.

Funktion Flux
Developed in 2003 in Colorado Springs and fiscally sponsored by the Pikes Peak Arts Council, Funktion Flux focus in artistic liberation and funding for the arts. They have produced five shows that have showcased over 150 local artists; visual art, performance art, dance, poetry and music and raised over $7000 for local non-profit organizations and continues to grow.

Golden Fine Arts Festival
The festival welcomes more than 140 high-quality artists in a variety of media, including ceramic arts, fiber arts, glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and more. The juried festival is an open-air art gallery in a lovely foothills setting adjacent to Clear Creek.

Lakewood Arts Council
The Lakewood Arts Council is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to serving the community by promoting and supporting the arts in Lakewood and the surrounding area. Founded in 1988, LAC encompasses all the arts: theatre, music, dance, visual arts and literature.

Lakewood Cultural Center
The Lakewood Cultural Center offers regional, national, and internationally-recognized artists and is host to community performances, presentations, and exhibits featuring work by local performing arts organizations, artists, and schools.

Larimer Arts Association
LAA's mission is to promote, stimulate and encourage the cultural welfare of Denver through interactive cultural events and cooperative art programming for emerging artists.

Longmont Museum & Cultural Center
The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center is located at 400 Quail Road in south Longmont. This striking facility features four exhibit galleries, three classrooms for special events and programs, and an outdoor courtyard, all in a beautiful building with public art, great views, and lots more to explore.

Friends of the Longmont Museum
The mission of the Friends of the Longmont Museum is to promote the knowledge and understanding of history, arts and science(s) through active support of the Longmont Museum and to encourage public involvement and financial support to the Museum and its cultural activities.

Louisville Art Association
A non-profit corporation celebrating 23 years, with over 150 members. Our main purposes include: assisting and promoting the advancement of the visual arts; encouraging greater appreciation and knowledge of the visual arts; integrating visual art activities into the mainstream of cultural activities in the community; sponsoring art shows, exhibits, and competitions; sponsoring workshops and seminars, for both members and non-members.

Loveland Art Academy
Dedicated to providing competent, professional art instruction in a creative environment to students of all abilities.

Loveland High Plains Arts Council
Site for the annual "Sculpture in the Park" showcase. This is the nation's largest juried sculpture exhibition including demonstrations by sculptors and a two-day silent auction.

Loveland Museum/Gallery
The mission of the Loveland Museum/Gallery is to serve as a regional cultural center by collecting, preserving and interpreting Loveland's history, and by presenting exemplary art and history exhibits, programs and events for the enrichment of visitors of all ages and backgrounds.

The Milestones Project
When we can replace our fear of those who are different with a sense of our shared humanity, we will safeguard our planet from hatred and war. The Milestones Project is a photographic tribute to our shared humanity.

Mizel Center for Arts and Culture
he Mizel Center offers programs and events that span the cultural spectrum. Exhibitions, concerts, films, author appearances and theatrical performances are joined by annual events that include the Denver Jewish Film Festival (presented in partnership with the Denver Film Society) and the Leah Cohen Festival of Books and Authors.

Mountainside Art Guild
Mountainside Art Guild is dedicated to the pursuit and promotion of artistic endeavors in visual fine arts including original painting, drawing, photography, collage, silk-screen, etching, sculpture, etc.

Old Firehouse Art Center
The visual arts center serving the St. Vrain Valley, dedicated to increasing public awareness and understanding of the visual arts through regional and national exhibits, lectures, classes and seminars.

Pan African Arts Society (PAAS)
A program component of the African American Leadership Institute that organizes and executes a myriad of arts education, social change venues throughout the year and within the Denver metro-area.

Pikes Peak Arts Council
In 1967, a group of dedicated individuals in the Pikes Peak Region combined their talents "To promote, stimulate and foster the growth of the arts and humanities and to aid, encourage, advise and correlate all activities in the promotion of arts and humanities."

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
To enrich the lives of people of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures through the celebration of, education about, and preservation of the art and history of American quilts and quiltmaking, past and present.

Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
The mission of the Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center is to make the arts an active part of everyone’s lives by leading in managing, promoting and providing quality facilities, arts programs and services which educate, challenge and meet the needs of the people of Pueblo and southern Colorado.

Scientific & Cultural Arts District / Denver
In 1988, voters in the Denver metro area created the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) to provide a consistent source of unrestricted funding to scientific and cultural organizations.

Steamboat Springs Arts Council
A community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to art and cultural programming, and an advisor and advocate for affiliate local arts organizations. Housed in an historic train Depot along the Yampa River. Manage The Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts and a community arts & culture Resource Center.

The Other Side Arts (TOSA)
Serving the Denver community through free children’s workshops, art exhibitions, the Alliance monthly publication, festivals, art auctions, outreach, interactive art events where the general public creates the art that fills the gallery itself, studio spaces, tours and art instruction to school and youth groups, exhibition space for school groups and other nonprofits, and a free community gallery that provides exhibition space to emerging artists.

The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (The Lab)
A unique institution that combines elements of a museum, think tank, and public forum. Focused on contemporary art and culture, The Lab offers international art exhibitions, lectures, performances, symposia, and publications. A small organization with a big cultural vision, The Lab offers all audiences the opportunity to engage in both personal reflection and public discussion on contemporary art.

Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts
A non-profit organization in downtown Palmer Lake, Colorado, just 20 minutes north of Colorado Springs, promoting the arts and humanities in the Tri-Lakes region by creating and enabling community partnerships for demonstrating, teaching and exhibiting the arts advocating artisitic growth for the benefit of artists, students, commerce, residents and those who appreciate the arts.

VSA arts of Colorado
Established in 1978, VSA arts of Colorado is creating a world where people with disabilities have the opportunity to learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts.

MUSEUMS
Art Institute of Chicago Museum
Listing of museum's library holdings, exhibitions, family and children's programs, and permanent collections.

Art Museum Network Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario is the eighth largest art museum in North America. Its collection comprises more than 24,000 works representing 1,000 years of extraordinary European, Canadian, modern, Inuit, and contemporary art.

Aspen Art Museum
Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum is recognized internationally for presenting outstanding exhibitions with a particular emphasis on contemporary art. The museum is housed in an historic brick building located along the scenic Rio Grande Trail near the heart of Aspen. Stimulating year-round programming includes numerous art workshops for children, teens and adults, free public lectures, docent tours, site rentals, special events, and members' art trips.

Black American West Museum and Heritage Center
Tells the forgotten story of the African American pioneers who helped shape the West. This small museum is housed in the former home of Dr. Justina Ford, Colorado's first African American female doctor.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Nonprofit contemporary visual and performing art facility that promotes excellence, diversity and education in all programming, representing many ideological, aesthetic, philosophical and cultural points of view.

Brooklyn Museum of Art
BMA's web site contains in-depth descriptions of their permanent collections and special exhibits. Besides getting detailed driving directions from their site, you can also link to museumshop.com, a virtual gallery where you can buy your favorite artist's prints.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
The Fine Arts Center, with its unique heritage and multidisciplinary focus, serves as a community catalyst to celebrate and promote the arts.

Denver Art Museum
Listing of current exhibitions, programs, and activities, general information, membership application, and special events. Even includes online museum gift shop!

Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys
Provides educational and cultural services to the greater Rocky Mountain region through the preservation, exhibition, collection and interpretation of the visual arts using miniatures, dolls and toys.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works including paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts that reveal the scope and depth of human experience, imagination, and emotion.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Details the De Young and Legion of Honor Museums with information about their permanent collections, current exhibitions, cafés, and stores.

Getty Museum / Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to delight, inspire, and educate the public by acquiring, conserving, studying, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of the highest quality within its fields of collecting. It offers a wide range of public programs, including lectures, classes, films, and performances.

Guggenheim Museums: Berlin / Bilbao / Las Vegas / New York / Venice
The mission of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of visual culture, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, and to collect, conserve, and study the art of our time.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art / Kansas City, Missouri
Website includes information about the permanent collections (Frankenthaler, Wegman, O'Keeffe, Mapplethorpe, annual programs of temporary exhibitions, and a preview of upcoming exhibitions.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA, a premier visual arts museum in the Western United States, features superb permanent collections, ever-changing special online exhibitions, and a full series of film and music programs for your enjoyment.

Loveland Museum/Gallery
Situated in the heart of downtown Loveland, Colorado, the Loveland Museum/Gallery is a regional center for cultural events. The 28,000 square foot museum hosts exhibits, art classes, workshops, poetry readings and demonstrations. Outside, special events, concerts and performances take place throughout the year.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York
The Met's site features a calendar of events, listing of collections, educational programs, general information, membership and current news, along with online store and special exhibition list.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Dedicated to collecting, presenting, and interpreting international developments in post–World War II art in all media and creating a welcoming environment for its public appreciation. The Modern promotes understanding and interest in art and artists through curatorial research and publications, and a variety of educational programs, including lectures, guided tours, classes, and workshops.

Museo de las Américas / Denver
The purpose and mission of the Museo de las Américas is to foster understanding of and appreciation for the achievements of the Latino people of the Americas by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the diverse art, history, and cultures of this region from ancient times to the present.

Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago
Chicago's newest major museum offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.

Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver
The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver is to establish a world class center of contemporary art that will educate and inspire artists, students, and the general public about new developments in regional, national, and international visual arts.

Museum of Fine Arts / Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art.

Museum of Modern Art / New York
Award-winning web site showcasing art collections and exhibitions, as well as programs and services available at MoMA. You can even send an e-card or browse through the online museum store.

Museum of Outdoor Arts / Englewood
A synthesis of fine art, architecture and landscape design integrated into the community and business environment. It is fully accessible to the public, exemplifying the belief that "art is a part of everyday life."

Museum of Western Art / Denver
At 1727 Tremont Place is the Museum of Western Art, with a collection that includes important pictures by Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Remington and Georgia O'Keeffe, three artists who found their inspiration in the American West. (303) 296-1880

The National Gallery of Art / Washington DC
European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper are displayed in the permanent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from countries and cultures throughout the world are presented on a regular basis. Admission is always free.

National Museum of Wildlife Art / Jackson Hole, Wyoming
The museum is unique among American art museums, distinguished by its mission and location. With collections of nearly 2,300 works of art, the museum strives to enrich and inspire public appreciation of fine art and man's relationship with nature by focusing its exhibitions and programs on wildlife.

National Museum of Women in the Arts / Washington DC
Brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating the public concerning their accomplishments.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the museum opened to the public in July 1997, eleven years after the death of the artist from whom it takes its name. The Museum’s permanent collection of over 130 O’Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculpture is the largest in the world. In addition, the Museum presents special exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O’Keeffe’s work or that combines examples of her art with works by her American modernist contemporaries.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Founded over 125 years ago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art stands among the great art institutions of the world. Today the Museum houses over 300,000 works of art encompassing some of the greatest achievements of human creativity, and offers a wealth of exhibitions and education programs for a public of all ages.

Smithsonian Complex
The Smithsonian is committed to enlarging our shared understanding of the mosaic that is our national identity by providing authoritative experiences that connect us to our history and our heritage as Americans and to promoting innovation, research and discovery in science and the arts.

Vance Kirkland Museum
Established in 1996 as a non-profit museum to "acquire, preserve, maintain, display and exhibit paintings of the distinguished Colorado artist, Vance Kirkland; the work of other 20th Century American artists; and other objects or collections of lasting public interest or value relating to the life, times or art of Vance Kirkland."

The Wildlife Experience
The Wildlife Experience is a wildlife conservation museum featuring natural history, fine art, and film. Located 10 miles south of Denver, Colorado, the facility opened in 2002 and offers a wonderful experience for all who visit. The Wildlife Experience is dedicated to promoting the understanding of the natural world and its conservation through art, education and community.

RESOURCES

Art & Creative Materials Institute (ACMI)
An international association, composed of a diverse and involved membership, and is recognized as the leading authority on art and creative materials. Founded in 1936, ACMI was organized to assist its members in providing the public with art and creative materials for children and artists that are non-toxic.

Art Job Online
Whether you're looking for a new job, or just want to understand what's happening in the arts field, ArtJob is the place to find comprehensive, up-to-date national and international listings of arts employment and other opportunities.

Art Materials Information and Education Network (AMIEN)
AMIEN is a resource for artists, dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date, accurate, and unbiased information about artists’ materials.

Art Teacher on the Net
Project ideas and educational links for teachers, art program leaders, organizations, and parents.

Artinfonet.com
ArtInfoNet.com exists to encourage individuals to experiment and explore the world of art materials. It is made possible by the members of NAMTA (National Art Materials Trade Association).

Artisans Market
Artisan’s Market is an artists professional platform to show and sell their handmade crafts, clay pots, handmade silver jewelry or other handmade items competitively.

Artists Register
ArtistsRegister.com showcases visual art by artists who are US residents represented through many disciplines. The Web site serves to connect the artists and their work with private collectors, gallery owners, interior designers, corporate art buyers, public art administrators, and art enthusiasts in general!

Artline
The Artline web site is a premier guide to fine art on the Internet. The foremost dealers worldwide can be easily accessed through this high-traffic volume web site.

ArtNet
An international art market, complete with historic price information, exhibitions, and inventory from hundreds and hundreds of galleries and artists, an online magazine, and coming soon, online auctions of fine art. Everything you need to find, appraise, buy and sell art.

Arts Perspective Magazine
A free newsprint quarterly, offers a venue for all of the arts. Artists, writers, musicians, dancers, performers and galleries are encouraged to showcase their work. A resource for supporters of the arts to share a common thread in the continuum of creative expression. Serving southwest Colorado.

Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA)
CBCA is a business member organization helping companies to leverage the arts for their innovative and creative success.

Colorado Lawyers for the Arts (COLA)
The only organization in Colorado devoted exclusively to helping artists and arts organizations obtain pro bono legal services and education on legal matters that affect them.

DenverArtists.com
Your source for emerging and established artists. You will find a great variety of artists from Denver and Colorado. This site is intended to connect artists, art organizations and art enthusiasts.

Double Daughters Self-Made
Each Tuesday afternoon, casually starting at 5:30pm, Double Daughters invites a member of Denver's creative community to share their work, experience and ideas with others interested in building and maintaining a creative culture in Denver. Happy hour and complimentary hors d'oeuvres.

Etsy.com
An easy-to-navigate online store that links buyers directly with artists, designers and crafters.

FindArtInfo.com
An art appraisal tool, FindArtInfo.com contains current price info on all sorts of fine art — oil paintings, etchings, engravings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and much more — ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art.

Internet ArtResources
Ever-changing site detailing galleries, artists, museums, schools and shows. Includes news articles and reviews.

Modern Renaissance, Inc.
Publisher of fine art limited edition giclees (pronounced zhee-clay), a French term meaning "spray of ink."
The color and vibrancy is so astounding it often fools the eye of the beholder, making it almost impossible to distinguish the print from the original.

Micro Business Development
A Colorado non-profit organization, was founded in 1993 to eliminate barriers to economic independence for disadvantaged entrepreneurs, both youth and adult, through access to markets, resources, and business capital.

PBS
Since 1995, Public Broadcasting Service Online has provided high-quality Web content built on our PBS mission; to advance education, culture and citizenship. The Internet is a global medium that gives us a chance to share ideas, information, and experience across demographic and geographic boundaries.

Western States Arts Federation
(WESTAF), a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. WESTAF fulfills its mission to strengthen the financial, organizational, and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West by providing innovative programs and services. WESTAF serves the largest geographical area and number of states of the six mainland regional arts organizations, including the state arts agencies, artists, and arts organizations of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

World Art Directory
A guide to art and artist information on the Web, designed to bring together those who love art with those who create it and to provide an affordable means for artists to promote their work. World Art Directory also provides a comprehensive guide to art related sites on the Internet.

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