Key Resources

Major References
Following is a brief selection from our collection of recent management and marketing publications and directories for arts practitioners.

Management and Marketing Publications

• Artists and Graphic Designer's Market : Where and how to sell your illustration, fine art, graphic design & cartoons
• Creative Arts Marketing
• Getting Art There : An Artists Marketing Manual
• How to Succeed in the Music Business
• International Literary Market Place
• Mission Possible : How to Make Money from your Writing
• Novel and Short Story Writer's Market
• Photographer's Market
• Poet's Market
• Songwriter's Market
• Writers' and Artists' Yearbook
• Writing as a Business

EBC Guides
Business Guides from the Entrepreneur Business Centre.

• Antiques, Art and Craft Galleries (Business Benchmarking Guide)
• Arts & Crafts Business (Business Start-Up Guide)
• Freelance Writing/Copywriter (Business Start-Up Guide)
• Graphic Design Agency (Business Start-Up Guide)
• Music Shop (Business Start-Up Guide)

Directories 

• Australian Grants Register
• Australasian Music Industry Directory
• Encore Directory
• International Directory of Arts

Other Information Resources

Government

Australia Council
A service organisation enriching the life of the nation by supporting and promoting the arts.  Site includes H2W2 - How To, Where To, a toolkit showing how to do an arts project and where to get help.

Artbank
A Commonwealth art rental programme supporting visual artists and craftspeople across Australia

ArtsWA
ArtsWA is responsible for the development and support of the arts sector in Western Australia.

fuel4arts.com
Delivers free audience and market development tools and ideas to professional arts marketers and artists.

Percent for Art Scheme
A Western Australian State Government initiative designed to foster the creation of art in public places.

Music Information Gateway
Gateway for the Music and Performing Arts Library of the State Library of WA - lots more information and links relating to music!

Writing & Publishing
More information and links on writing and publishing from the Library's Arts and Literature section.

Net Links

artsource
(Formerly the Artists Foundation of WA)  Western Australia's leading representative visual arts body.

Arts Law Centre of Australia
The national community legal centre for artists.

Association of Western Australian Art Galleries
The essential guide to art galleries in Perth.

Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA)
An association administering the rights of the world's composers, songwriters and publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The site includes information from Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), representing virtually all music publishers in Australia and New Zealand.

Community Arts Network
The peak industry body for training and development in Community Culture, Community Arts and Cultural Planning in Western Australia.

Copyright Council
Online copyright information centre.

Country Arts WA
The leading regional arts organisation in Western Australia.

Form
(formerly Craftwest)  The peak professional organisation for contemporary craft and design in Western Australia.

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
A professional organisation for people working in the growing areas of Australian industry - media, communications, entertainment, arts, and sport.

National Association for the Visual Arts
The peak body representing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector.

Viscopy
Australasia's visual arts copyright collecting agency.