Web Resources

This website provides free resources designed to help artists and craftspeople manage and advance their careers. You can learn to create and promote a website, find health insurance, do your taxes, get legal assistance and more. There is a page with free website templates for artists to create their own online art gallery, web design help and detailed information about preventing and resolving copyright issues. The main focus of the site is about commerce questions, but there is also technical help and health insurance resources.

This website provides free resources designed to help artists and craftspeople manage and advance their careers. You can learn to create and promote a website, find health insurance, do your taxes, get legal assistance and more. There is a page with free website templates for artists to create their own online art gallery, web design help and detailed information about preventing and resolving copyright issues. The main focus of the site is about commerce questions, but there is also technical help and health insurance resources.

A Professional Growth page of the Arts Resource Network produced by the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs of the City of Seattle. There are links about taxes, planning, grants and funding as well as insurance, legal and promotion. Some sections are geared specifically towards artists in the Seattle area, there is lots of useful information for everyone.

Artslynx provides links to resources and information in a wide range of arts disciplines. Information on arts education, arts administration and employment are included. Lots to explore. Especially helpful for educators and individual artists.

Association of Teaching Artists lists national resources for arts organizations as well as for individual artists. Their focus is on education and linking artists to schools and community.

Cover the Uninsured, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and demand solutions from our nation’s leaders. This page on Wisconsin gives statistics about health insurance coverage in our state. There is a guide to finding health insurance coverage in our state on this page that you can download. You do need to have Adobe Reader to view the guide.

This site’s primary feature is Ecommerce for Artists, a fully integrated, modular curriculum that introduces artists to the fundamentals of using the Internet to strengthen their arts-related businesses. It primarily is a tool to help teachers working with artists who want to develop their business skills, but it also seeks to support individual artists who want to explore these strategies on their own. Its curriculum presents 100 fundamental learning questions that, taken together, comprise an introductory guide to help artists establish and sustain an entrepreneurial Web presence. These sections are contained in Adobe PDF format, so Adobe Reader is required to view.

This site addresses many basic e-commerce questions for any online business. To help address the issues all e-businesses face, they have compiled a list of frequently asked questions addressing everything from driving business to your site to how to accept online payments. While not all topics on this site will be applicable, there is a lot of basic information presented.

Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Check out the Programs and Services tab where you will find health insurance information for individual artists in all states, liability insurance for organizations or events, special offers and discounts, fiscal sponsorship, microgrants and other helpful programs. A limited community membership is free.

Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Check out the Programs and Services tab where you will find health insurance information for individual artists in all states, liability insurance for organizations or events, special offers and discounts, fiscal sponsorship, microgrants and other helpful programs. A limited community membership is free.

The Health Insurance Risk Sharing Plan offers health insurance to Wisconsin residents who either are unable to find adequate health insurance coverage in the private market due to their medical conditions or who have lost their employer-sponsored group health insurance. Applicants are required to meet HIRSP eligibility criteria to qualify, and on this website you can find out if you are eligible and apply for benefits.

A blog by June Walker that provides tax and financial information for all self employed people – whether an independent contractor, sole proprietor, sub-contractor, or indie. June Walker is a practicing accountant who posts simple and easy-to-understand answers to complex tax questions asked by her website visitors. You can search blog posts by topic or ask a question yourself.

Fundraising123 provides articles and how-to guides for marketing, fundraising, social networking, and donor management. Great for organizations and individuals. An overwhelming array of information. The Network for Good website, www1.networkforgood.org, also lists job opportunities at nonprofits and additional resources.

This site will provide you with links to information and advice about selling your art via your websites, blog, shopping carts, auctions, online galleries, online stores and email marketing. Much of the advice is generic and applicable to all artists no matter where they live. Where information is country-specific, it tends to focus on on the UK. It also provides information relevant to the US market. Scroll down past the other articles about similar subjects to get the topics on this article, which can be clicked on to go straight to that topic.