Business of Art

Related Links

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 MAUS (formerly 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.  Includes content formerly on the fuel4arts website.
• Artbank
  A Commonwealth art rental programme supporting visual artists and craftspeople across Australia
• DCA Arts & Cultural Development
  Projects and initiatives  designed to support and promote the development of Western Australian arts and culture.
• Percent for Art Scheme
  A Western Australian State Government initiative designed to foster the creation of art in public places.
• Music and Music Information
  Information and linke relating to music from the State Library's Music Subject Specialists.

Internet 

• 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.
• Screenrights facilitates access to film, TV and radio and provides payment to copyright owners for the use of their work
• Viscopy Australasia's visual arts copyright collecting agency.