18th Street Arts Center is a member of Res Artis, the International Association of Residential Arts Centres. Res Artis is based in the Netherlands, and is a 200 member network of residential arts centers worldwide. Residencies cover all creative disciplines (visual, performing, literary, media arts) and range from contemporary to traditional. Founded in 1991, Res Artis meets yearly in a different country, to provide a forum for ideas and artists with an interest in international cultural exchange. Recent meetings have been in Sydney/Melbourne, Australia; Helsinki, Finland; Los Angeles, CA; and New Delhi, India. Res Artis' web address is www.resartis.org.

To collect, care for, exhibit, interpret and demonstrate items that will serve to illustrate the history of Anderson county and will preserve its heritage. To provide passive and formal educational opportunities to teach the history of Anderson County to its citizens and especially to its children.

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon is an autonomous body established in 1951 to stimulate public interest in and promote the knowledge, appreciation and practice of the arts. We are the Irish State's principal instrument of arts funding and an advisory body to Government on arts matters, operating under the Arts Acts of 1951, 1973, and 2003. As an advocate for the arts, we commission and publish research and information and undertake a range of development projects, often jointly with other public sector or non-governmental agencies.

The Arts Council is a voluntary body of 12 members and a chair, appointed by the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism for a term of five years. The twelth Arts Council was appointed in 2003.

In June 2002, in announcing his new Cabinet, the Taoiseach named John O'Donoghue T.D. as the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, replacing Sile de Valera, T.D. who was formerly Minster for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. The Arts Council remains under the aegis of the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism.

The Arts Council supports all aspects of the arts, in Irish and in English - architecture, dance, drama, film, literature, music, opera and visual arts. We support individual professional artists through direct awards and bursaries and through Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists. We also support multi-disciplinary arts through activities and facilities such as arts centres, festivals and community arts. We provide annual and multi-annual grants or project funding to hundreds of organisations involved in the arts throughout Ireland.

In partnership with local authorities and with Údarás na Gaeltachta, we part-fund 31 county, city and gaeltacht arts officer posts and their year-round programmes. We co-operate closely on a wide range of programmes and projects with our counterpart, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Believing that the imagination is a healing force, Arts for Life offers innovative arts-based programs to heal, enrich, and transform the lives of individuals, communities, and the world.

Arts for Life is a consortium of artists working in all media. We fulfill our mission through a combination of programs, public education, and trainings. Inspired by myths of creation and rites of passage that human societies have used for thousands of years to enable individual and cultural healing, our programs are designed to:

• support healthy self-expression and build self-esteem;
• end isolation imposed by trauma, illness, and marginalization;
• reframe crises and conflicts into opportunities for discovery and development;
• mine the spiritual riches of cultural heritage;
• nurture inherent strengths of nontraditional learners;
• support resilience and renewal in victims of individual and collective trauma;
• channel the energies of violence in all its forms into life-affirming creations, attitudes, and behaviors;
• promote compassionate community across borders.

In addition, we provide professional training and meaningful work for artists in all media who want to use their creative gifts for the health and well-being of all people.

Finally, it is our vision to publish workbooks and program manuals to help teachers, counselors, and community builders use arts, myth, and ritual to support a vibrant, well-balanced, and humane society.

Arts International is an independent, not-for-profit contemporary arts organization dedicated to the development and support of global cultural interchange in the arts and to educating audiences and the public about the richness and diversity of the arts worldwide. Arts International works in three primary areas:

Creation of Projects & Partnerships that help to identify, develop, and circulate new work crossing borders worldwide.

Development of Advised Funds and Regranting Programs that provide support to artists and arts organizations engaged in international work.

Use of New Technologies & Media to share information, reach new audiences, educate and serve the public, and create connections among artists and cultural organizers around the world. Arts International carries out its work through global projects and partnerships, new media ventures and publications, and regranting and advised fund opportunities for artists and arts organizations working internationally. It is headquartered in New York City.

• the arts and cultural sector, as content providers, make the most of digital distribution channels for content (broadband internet, mobile)
• the sector makes relevant, exciting and appropriate content for the 21st century
• audiences' changing, 21st century patterns of behaviour in relation to information gathering, communicating and interacting with media are reflected within the arts and cultural sector
• potential new and young audiences living in a media and new technology infused world see the arts and cultural sector reflecting the reality of their lives by making artistic work including and communicating with them via the new technologies they continue to be intrigued with

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. Its holdings include nearly 15,000 treasures spanning 6,000 years of history, representing cultures throughout Asia. The museum's mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.

Based in Lower Manhattan, Battery Dance Company has produced nearly 100 original dance works choreographed by its founder and artistic director Jonathan Hollander, in collaboration with a diverse array of composers and designers, and its cast of outstanding dancers.

Battery's repertoire reveals a wide thematic and stylistic range. Presented in New York City and on tour in the U.S. and worldwide, Battery performances are characterized by choreography and music inspired by worldwide sources, reflecting American society and its multiplicity of cultures. Musical accompaniment, often commissioned and performed live, is a hallmark of the Company.

The Company is among New York City's foremost cultural ambassadors through its participation in international performing arts festivals, conferences and symposia throughout Eastern and Central Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Scandinavia, South Asia and Caribbean regions.

Battery Dance Company is a community-spirited presenter of the free annual Downtown Dance Festival, introducing New Yorkers to over 150 dance companies in its 23 years.

Through its arts-in-education programs in New York City public schools, Battery dancers serve as teaching artists in primary, middle and high schools throughout the five boroughs. Battery facilitates in-school performances and master classes by international visiting artists, providing first-hand introductions for many city school children to the cultures of the world.

In its Lower Manhattan home-base, equipped with two large studios, the Company provides subsidized rehearsal space for over 200 choreographers and dance companies each year in space-starved Manhattan.

With an annual roster of over 500 events and an annual audience of over 600,000, The Bushnell is a major economic driver for the Greater Hartford region and the State of Connecticut. The number of annual events and attendance has increased by 50% with the opening of the new addition.

The mission of the regional UNC center is to support and advance craft, creativity and design in education and research and, through community collaborations, to demonstrate ways that craft, creativity and design provide solutions for community issues. The mission of the nonprofit CCCD is to support the mission of the UNC center through funding, programs, and outreach to artists, craft organizations, schools and the community, region and nation.

Regional University of North Carolina affiliates:
Appalachian State University
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Western Carolina University

The Culture Shock website builds on the PBS documentary series on the controversies that once surrounded now-classic works of art.

Culture Shock tells the stories of cultural controversy in now-classic works of art -- in literature, painting, film, and music -- and explores the relevance of these masterpieces today. The series examines the scandal surrounding Manet's famous 1865 painting of a nude in The Shock of the Nude: Manet's Olympia; the "subversive nature" of 1920s jazz in The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz; the Production Code era of Hollywood movies in Hollywood Censored: Movies, Morality & the Production Code; and the century-old conflicts surrounding Mark Twain's novel in Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Individually and collectively, the project explores a host of important questions about the arts and society: Who decides what constitutes good art? Should the arts ever be censored? How do historical arts controversies fit into current debates about censorship? What does freedom of expression really mean in a democracy?

The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture exists to care for the actual things of the urban world. In some instances, these things are visible?the city, education, architecture, medicine, art, technology, money. Equally important are the invisible forms within which life takes place and has meaning?friendship, the soul, taste, imagination, community, intellectual life, ritual, leadership.

Through its courses of study, public seminars, publications, conferences, and civic involvement, The Dallas Institute brings thought, imagination, language, and sensibility to bear on the convergence between the visible shaping of the world and the permanent values necessary for the crafting of culture.

The acronym DOCOMOMO stands for DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement. Initially founded in 1988 in The Netherlands, there are now DOCOMOMO working parties in over 40 countries. The organization is dedicated to the study of significant works of Modern Movement architecture, landscape design and urban planning around the world. DOCOMOMO US is the official working party of the United States.

DOCOMOMO is an all-volunteer group comprised of historians, architects, designers, preservationists and others, working in the academic community and in the field. It has chapters in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle. Where significant Modern architecture and interest exists, new chapters can organize as part of DOCOMOMO US.

The chapters are at different levels of development and activity, yet each is working toward similar goals: sponsoring educational programs and tours; providing technical assistance on the preservation of Modern Movement buildings; conducting research and survey projects to fuel a nationwide register of Modern buildings; publishing newsletters and keeping what's Modern in the general press. Most importantly, DOCOMOMO is helping to define a new mode of historic preservation with updated definitions of significance that will bring the exhilarating creativity and production of the early to mid-20th century into the mainstream.

DCTV believes that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates our democracy. Founded in 1972, DCTV has fostered a diverse and inclusive media arts community. It has pursued its mission by introducing members of the community to the basics of electronic media, by offering hundreds of free or low-cost production courses and by making broadcast-quality production equipment affordable to emerging artists and producers.

From humble beginnings ? its first educational projects operated from the back of a dilapidated mail truck ? it has gradually established a community-based foothold within an art form dominated by large corporations. From its headquarters in a landmark firehouse in downtown New York City, DCTV serves individuals who could not otherwise afford a media arts education. Their recently completed Cyberstudio, allows artists to broadcast their works live over cable television and the Internet to millions of households. Their new Cybercar is a mobile DCTV- with a giant video wall mounted on the side of the vehicle- which allows us to take our services on the road, reaching people across the nation and broadcasting around the world.

DCTV is the most honored independent nonprofit media center in the nation. Its productions, which reach over 100 million viewers each year, have received 12 National Emmy Awards, 4 duPont-Columbia Awards, and every other major award in the television field. In recognition of its artistic integrity and social commitment, it was awarded one of the few National Endowment for the Arts "Leadership Projects for the Millennium" grants.

While their impact is measured nationally and internationally, their local roots are strong. They complement their own artistic achievements by working to extend the tools of television and electronic media production to a broader, more diverse set of artists. Toward this end, over the past 31 years they have taught over 50,000 students, most of them members of low-income and minority communities, the basics and finer points of television production. They hold over 150 free or low-cost video and electronic media training workshops for about 2,000 students a year, and our 4,000 local members rely on our facilities to produce valuable work that would not otherwise exist.

Internet: The Internet can be confusing and overwhelming. What is the Internet's impact on an organization's bottom line and daily operation? How does one find an affordable web designer who will portray the group appropriately? Is a web site necessary? Embury Arts Consulting helps create a successful Internet strategy, including assessing the organization's current Internet presence and needs, training in communication tools, and designing and maintaining web sites. Embury also offers workshops on Internet strategies and planning.

Technology and Organizational Planning: Technology planning is new to many arts and small organizations. The process can highlight organizational issues, such as clarification of mission, board involvement, staff needs, and expectations from constituents, as well as provide guidance in approaching the technology necessary to survive in today's environment. Embury Arts Consulting works with board and staff members to identify goals and to design realistic organizational and technology plans. Embury also offers workshops on technology planning.

Project planning and administration: Arts professionals always have plenty of ideas and projects, but not enough time to plan and carry them out. Embury Arts Consulting facilitates organizational decision-making to establish goals, institute procedures, set up timelines, and evaluate programs. Professional project management and implementation may also be contracted through Embury Arts Consulting.

Eyebeam Atelier is a not-for-profit new media arts organization established to provide access, education, and support necessary for students, artists, and young people to create innovative artworks with state-of-the-art technologies. Founded in 1996 by independent filmmaker John S. Johnson, Eyebeam is dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and the media arts while simultaneously establishing and articulating new media art as a significant medium.

The application of new technologies to the field of art is accelerating art production, challenging traditional art venues, and giving birth to a new generation of radical arts culture. Many students, artists, and young people have been left behind in the race toward mastering the new forms and visual formats of new media.

We campaign, take action and represent the concerns, interests and practice of community dance at all levels, acting as a catalyst for the development of partnerships between dance and communities.

Our network of members includes: dancers, animateurs, artists and dance teachers; choreographers and dancemakers; dance companies, organisations, agencies and venues; colleges, universities and training establishments; funding bodies and local authorities.

Through events, conferences, seminars, an advice service and two regular journals, we offer up-to-the-minute information, debate and dialogue about current issues in dance and the arts.

The program has been in place in Brazil since 1957, and is administered by a binational commission consisting of an equal number of Brazilians and US citizens living in the country.

Headquartered in Savannah, Georgia's first city, the Society is the oldest cultural institution in the state and one of the oldest historical organizations in the nation. For 160 years, GHS has fulfilled its mission to collect, preserve, and share Georgia history through a variety of exciting educational outreach programs and research services.

The Huntington is an oasis of art and culture set amidst 150 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants.

A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928.Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece "The Blue Boy" (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie"(1794), Edward Hopper's "The Long Leg", Rogier van der Weyden's "Madonna and Child" (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington.

CID represents the art of dance in general and advises the UNESCO, national and local government agencies, international organizations and institutions. Members are federations, associations, schools, companies and individuals in more than 120 countries.

CID is an umbrella organization, in the sense that it evolves on a different level from its members. It is not connected to any particular dance school, company, festival or other institution. It is strictly non-commercial; it has no products or services to sell. CID treats all forms of dance on an equal basis. It does not promote a particular view of dance, recognising its universal character as an art form, as a means of education and as a research subject.It is non-discriminatory. Reflecting the principles of the United Nations and UNESCO, it is open to all approaches to dance, without prejudice for race, gender, religion, political affiliation or social status.It is open to membership, accepting persons or institutions with sufficient credentials in dance.

The mission of The Joyce Theater Foundation is to serve and support the art of dance and choreography, to promote the richness and variety of the art form in its fullest expression, and to enhance the public interest in, and appreciation of, dance and the allied arts of music, design, and theater.

The Foundation's programs embrace the entire spectrum of movement styles and traditions, from the time-honored to the untried, and are designed to encourage, sustain, and educate a diverse audience.

The Joyce serves a broad-based national and international dance community and its audiences by providing: an affordable, state-of-the-art performance venue; an informal rehearsal/performance venue with subsidized programs; optimal technical, administrative, and financial support for dance companies; and educational programs that enhance the public's understanding and appreciation of dance.

The Joyce oversees two of New York's leading dance venues: The Joyce Theater, a 472-seat theater in Chelsea, and Joyce SoHo, a dance center in lower Manhattan that offers dance studios for rehearsals and performances.

Throughout our 25 year history as a not-for profit organization, we at Judith Marcuse Projects (JMP) have mobilized the power of the arts to move lives and generate new energy for positive action – in our local, national and international communities. Our projects engage youth in a creative and educational process that deals with real-life issues, and turns their stories into live performances that affect hearts and transform minds across all generations.

Our projects have touched hundreds of thousands of youth from across Canada and around the world. The five-year Ice Project dealt with the tragedy of teen suicide; the Fire Project raised awareness about youth and violence. Our ambitions for the next 25 years are greater still. From our latest project, Earth, to youth action groups to educational outreach, we will continue our collaborations with youths/artists/activists to create a living legacy that goes beyond performances to affect the well being of society itself.

Working with students, training teachers, conducting graduate courses at universities, and producing educational curricula and materials, LEAP understands the challenges that face today's educators and continues to pioneer ways for all students to reach their full potential.

Resident Organizations:
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Juilliard School
Lincoln Center Presents
Lincoln Center Theater
The Metropolitan Opera
New York City Ballet
New York City Opera
New York Philharmonic
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
School of American Ballet

The Coalition is a network of historic site museums in many different parts of the world, at many stages of development, presenting and interpreting a wide variety of historic issues, events and people. It holds the common belief that it is the obligation of historic sites to assist the public in drawing connections between the history of our site and its contemporary implications. It views stimulating dialogue on pressing social issues and promoting humanitarian and democratic values as a primary function.

Through its first-of-its-kind web program, www.sitesofconscience.org, the Coalition works with leading international human rights and social welfare organizations to bring the lessons of the past to bear on contemporary struggles. Web visitors tour member historic sites and explore where in the world the issues they raise are still unresolved. Participating organizations include Human Rights Watch, International Center for Transitional Justice, Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, the RFK Center for Human Rights, and Amnesty International.

It will celebrate the lives and works of these well-known artists while nurturing the creative genius of new generations. In an environment reflective of the state's natural beauty, it will utilize the diversity of the state's art and culture to entertain and educate through exhibits, interactive learning experiences, concerts, readings, demonstrations, classes and other events. With ever changing exhibits and events, it will become a place to visit time and again, whether home is five miles away or 500.

A Hall of Fame, concert hall, 5,000-spectator outdoor amphitheater, artists-in-residence village and Choctaw Cultural Center are planned, as well as other performance and exhibit spaces and support facilities.

NCWHS supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life. The Collaborative makes women's contributions to history visible so that all women's experiences and potential are fully valued.

Goals:

To fulfill its mission, the museum cares for and displays a permanent collection, presents special exhibitions, conducts education programs, maintains a Library and Research Center, publishes a quarterly magazine and books on women artists, and supports a network of national and international committees. It also serves as a center for the performing and literary arts and other creative disciplines.

As a music and cultural economic development project, Blues Project initiatives and programs address a variety of community concerns and needs in a unique progressive manner through music and the creative industries, the region?s leading new market for employment, entrepreneurial and business development, attraction and investment.

The New Orleans Blues Project?s primary activity is the provision of much needed, partially subsidized artist support services to the region?s independant musicians. Services provided range from simple clerical support to publicity, audience development, and the development of press kits, to the development of business and marketing plans and the facilitation of loans and investment into artist enterprises. Some of the artists the Blues Project has assisted include King Lloyd, Walter ?Wolfman? Washington and The Roadmasters, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, and Jo ?Cool? Davis.

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts|Riverfront is a world-class educational institution that has been changing the lives of young people for nearly three decades. Every year, this pre-professional arts training center provides intensive instruction in dance, media arts, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre (acting, musical theatre, technical theatre) , visual arts, and creative writing, to students from public, private, and parochial schools across Louisiana through schoolday, after-school, weekend, and summer sessions.

The NYCCC School of the Arts: the country's only full time professional school of Chinese dance. The school offers a comprehensive curriculum of more than 1,000 classes and workshops annually. The Dance School is the only American institution to receive the honor of representing the dance curriculum of the Beijing Dance Academy, China's premier national dance institute.

The Chinese Folk Dance Company: the resident touring Company of NYCCC comprised of award-winning professional dancers and musicians. The Company brings the richness of traditional dance, Peking Opera and music to audiences across the country. In 2003 alone, the Company presented over 750 performances, workshops, master classes and lecture/demonstrations for 180,000 people of all ages. They have toured to theaters, schools and cultural centers in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington, DC.

NYCCC produces and presents cutting edge concert productions, including our Annual Lunar New Year Festival, the largest of its kind on the East Coast. Our performances in February play to sold-out audiences. We are also pleased to host collaborative programs with other organizations and companies including Families with Children From China, Asian Americans for Equality, Children's Television Workshop, and Rounder Records.