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Career Information, Job Listings, Grants, & Fellowships

AccessUT
UT's online job and internship database which posts professional opportunities for all majors.

College Central Network
Fine Arts Career Services database of art-related opportunities. Fine Arts students can post a resume and create an online portfolio.

Alliance of Artist Communities
The Alliance is a national consortium of organizations and individuals that offer artists time and space to create new work. It includes approximately 100 organizations and 100 individuals.

American Institute of Graphic Arts, Austin Chapter
Local job listings in the graphic arts.

Aquent
Employment agency that specializes in contract, project-based, and permanent work for a broad range of creative and information technology professionals.

Art Career Network
The network that helps you start, propel, enrich, and manage your career in the visual arts. They post jobs from museums, art galleries, educational institutions, and multi-disciplinary organizations as well as other art-related businesses/concerns worldwide.

Art Deadline
A subscription-based source of income and exhibition opportunities for artists. FACS has a subscription. Contact us for the user name and password.

Arthouse at the Jones Center
The mission of the Arthouse is to promote the growth and appreciation of contemporary art and artists in Texas. The Center provides grants and internships to visual artists.

Art Job Online
Search available art jobs: full- & part-time employment, internships, grants, public art projects, residencies -- you can search by region, art discipline, type of organization, and more! FACS subscribes. Contact us for the user name and password.

Artslynx
With a neat and well-organized series of connecting icons, Artslynx has master folders dealing with Visual Arts, Film, Arts Administration, Arts of Social Responsibility, Education, and Arts Advocacy. All are rich in resources.

Artspan
An excellent, inexpensive promotional tool for artists, artisans, and photographers. Artspan gives you your own web site, where you can upload images of your work, your artist statement, pricing information, and contact information, all of which becomes searchable by galleries, collectors, and other artists. A great way to market yourself.

Artist Help Network
A free information service designed to help artists take control of their careers. The network assists artists in locating information, resources, guidance, and advice on a comprehensive range of career-related topics.

Artists Register
A web site that serves to connect artists and their work with private collectors, gallery owners, interior designers, corporate art buyers, public art administrators, and art enthusiasts in general!

Artists Resource: Job-hunting Advice for Designers, Artists, Illustrators
Links to sites with information on careers and salaries, job status, informational interviews, resumes, portfolios, developing portfolio projects, job interviews, job-hunting resources, books and publications for finding jobs, and business advice.

Artist's Resource Center
Sponsored by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this site has links to internships, community organizations, galleries and museums, college teaching, electronic media, traditional media, freelance work, grants, fellowships, and residencies, exhibitions and competitions, and public art commissions.

Austin Advertising Federation
Check out the JOBLINE for up-to-the minute listings of jobs (and internships) in all fields of advertising in Austin and surrounding areas. New jobs are put online weekly.

College Art Association
An important group for aspiring artists who plan to teach in higher education. Contact us for the login and password to the job postings in their Career Center.

Creative Freelancers
A site which includes pricing guidelines, legal help and the ability to list both a resume and samples of your work.

Creative Hotlist
A dedicated career site for creative professionals.

Current Jobs in Visual Arts
The National Employment Bulletin for the Visual Art Professions. Contact us for the user name and password.

Grants and Awards in the Visual Arts
A guide from the University of Maryland Library that contains sources of information on grants, foundations, internships, and scholarships in the visual arts.

International Association of Residential Arts Centres
a worldwide network of residential arts centres and programmes which provide artists with facilities and conditions conducive to creative work.

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts' weekly newsletter of national news in the arts, which includes opportunities for artists, jobs, and events.

Visual Nation
Links to arts jobs sites, careers in art sites, and museums and galleries sites.

Professional Associations/Organizations

American Art Therapy Association

American Association of Museums

Art Museum Network
Over 200 of the worldís largest and most prestigious art museums have joined forces to provide free access to information about their collections, exhibitions, and services.

Association of Medical Illustrators

Austin Museum Partnership
The Austin Museum Partnership is a consortium of twenty-six Austin area museums organized in 1998 to promote collaborations for the mutual benefit of the public and the museums.

Austin Visual Arts Association
Founded in 1977, this local visual arts association is useful for students interested in making connections with other artists.

College Art Association
An important group for aspiring artists and art historians, specifically those who plan to teach in higher education.

In the Galleries Austin
Twenty-four galleries and museums working together to promote the visual arts in Austin.

National Art Education Association

Sculptor.Org
Contains over 320 pages of resources and tools, and over 12,000 links. Sculptor.Org consistently shows up as one of the top sites for sculpture and sculptors on the web.

Society of Illustrators

Texas Association of Museums
The TAM represents 260 museums and contains a job bank that features positions in Texas museums.

Government Agencies

The Texas Commission on the Arts
The web site for Texas arts and culture. Job listings can be found under the links in the TCANet Village.

Austin Art in Public Places

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