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Association for Visual Artists

AVA serves as an advocate for the visual arts through programming, arts advocacy, exemplary community citizenship and by an increase in diversity among artist and art advocate members. AVA provides members with opportunities to exhibit and sell their artwork; teach and facilitate; and cultivate their community leadership skills. AVA’s role in visual arts education is seen in schools, recreation centers, hospitals, the workplace and public spaces.

AVA’s mission is to promote, support and advocate for original visual art and artists.

Location

30 Frazier Avenue Suite A
Chattanooga, TN 37405-3931
United States
35° 3' 43.8984" N, 85° 18' 27.3204" W
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Alliance of Artists Communities

The Alliance of Artists Communities contributes to America's creative vitality by advancing the role artists' communities play in the evolution of new ideas and art.

Location

255 South Main St
Providence, RI 02903
United States
41° 49' 21.09" N, 71° 24' 18.6696" W
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Brooklyn Arts Council

Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), an arts and services organization founded in 1966, is the umbrella for Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists working in the visual, performing, media, and literary arts. BAC helps Brooklyn’s artist population–from the experimental to those preserving and evolving traditions of cultural heritage–create and present their work. BAC ensures that thousands of people throughout Brooklyn have access to a variety of free arts programming each year.

Location

55 Washington Street Suite 218
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice in the Champaign County area. We foster the creation and distribution of media, art, and narratives emphasizing underrepresented voices and perspectives and promote empowerment and expression through media and arts education. To this end, the IMC owns and operates a Community Media and Arts Center housed in the historic downtown Urbana post office building located at 202 S. Broadway Ave at Elm Street.

Location

UC IMC, 202 South Broadway, # 100
Urbana, IL 61801
United States
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Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe

For nearly three decades, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe has been providing its community with fearless, provocative, entertaining, and enlightening programming that includes an ardently interdisciplinary approach to art through our Cinema, Visual, Performing, and—our most recent addition—Digital Media departments. CCA has also focused on adult and youth education curricula, offering everything from traditional art history taught in the Cinematheque to the latest in technology for artists and the general public in our Moving Image Lab classroom.

Location

1050 Old Pecos Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87505
United States
35° 40' 23.7" N, 105° 56' 11.148" W
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s film program is the largest of its kind in the southwestern United States. MFAH first began screening films in the 1930s, and today the MFAH offers moviegoers a unique venue for appreciating both classic and contemporary films. These screenings include premieres of significant new independent productions are are often presented within an overall theme that focuses on a certain country or region, a specific actor or director, or a particular topic.

Location

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77005
United States
29° 43' 35.6772" N, 95° 23' 26.1744" W
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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Since 1978, LACE has maintained an unwavering commitment to innovation in the visual arts. LACE presents and supports a variety of projects each season, including exhibitions, performances, publications, discussions, screenings, and public art works. Since its inception, LACE has presented the work of over 5000 artists in over 3,000 programs and events.

Location

6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
United States
34° 6' 5.6736" N, 118° 19' 55.0488" W
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LA Artcore

The mission of LA Artcore is to support and nurture the careers of artists from diverse cultural backgrounds in a way that transcends social barriers and encourages a vibrant and dynamic community with innovative contemporary art.

Artcore is dedicated to improving the relationship between artists and audiences. The organization provides a platform to enhance the exchange of information, ideas and feelings, and to facilitate the awareness of the essence of creativity.

Location

120 Judge John Aiso Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012c
United States
34° 3' 2.4516" N, 118° 14' 24.0612" W
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iEAR Studios and Arts Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Department of the Arts at Rensselaer was founded in 1972. It is built around a world class faculty and is dedicated to interdisciplinary creative research in electronic arts. We offer a unique environment in which to develop and realize innovative art within a technological university.

The studios and the program have historically been referred to as iEAR (Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer). The studios provide specialized facilities for students, faculty and visiting artists to engage in individual and collaborative research projects.

Location

West Hall, Room 107 110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
United States
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Pacific Film Archive

The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. The Pacific Film Archive is an internationally recognized center for the exhibition, collection, and study of film and video. For over thirty years, PFA has presented a comprehensive exhibition program of world cinema and video seeking to introduce new works as well as reexamine and rediscover works from the past.

Location

2575 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
37° 52' 8.2488" N, 122° 15' 26.226" W
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