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Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) is a ten-year national initiative to improve the conditions for artists working in all disciplines. As a vital and immeasurable component of our cultural and collective identity, artists help us interpret our past, define our present and imagine our future. Working artists make resonant contributions to the daily lives of our communities, not only as creators, but also as entrepreneurs, educators and involved citizens. Representing more than 2 million working adults in 2001 (up from 730,000 in 1970), artists are a vibrant and ever-growing sector of the American workforce. However, artists are typically underpaid in relation to their peers with similar education and skill sets.

The Cultural Development Trust (Cuhede) was established in 2001 mainly to help both emerging and established artists be it as individuals artist or as a group with finding information and assistance and training in all aspects of Management, Financial and other administrative processes in the Arts & Cultural Sector.

The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) is the global network of arts councils and ministries of culture. IFACCA aims to benefit artists, arts organisations and communities worldwide. Our vision is a dynamic network, sharing knowledge and creating understanding to enrich a world of artistic and cultural diversity.

ISPA is a not-for-profit international organization (founded 1949) of over 600 executives and directors of concert and performance halls, festivals, performing companies, and artist competitions; government cultural officials; artists' managers; and other interested parties with a professional involvement in the performing arts from more than 50 countries in every region of the world, and in every arts discipline.\n\nThe purpose of ISPA is to develop, nurture, energize and educate an international network of arts leaders and professionals who are dedicated to advancing the field of the performing arts.

We strive for a society that is more focused on people and process than on products; that values experimentation and the exploration of new ideas; and that recognizes the role artists and the creative process can have in achieving this vision.

The International Federation of Actors (FIA) is an international non-governmental organisation representing performers' trade unions, guilds and associations around the world. It voices the professional concerns and interests of actors (in film, television, radio, theatre and live performance), broadcast professionals, dancers, singers, variety and circus artists and others, with the exception of musicians and visual artists.

From the times of Adam and eve, women have loved to pamper themselves by embellishing their beauty with fine pieces of jewelry. It has been the forte of an artist to create jewelry from pebbles and stones or bones and teeth to now gold and diamond. Those creations over the times have been graced by the beauty and vanity of a lady. To honor a mother or to pamper your lover or maybe to let a friend know you adore her, a fine piece of jewelry would do the best speaking. Earrings, necklaces, nose pins, anklets, bracelets, rings, brooches are all what means the world to their owners. However, one of major concern while buying the perfect gift is to choose the material of the jewelry of the choice of the lady you want to gift. Jewelry can be costume, ethnic, wood, gold, silver and diamond. Each has their own highlights and specialties. Every woman has different taste, so it is very important to pick the right piece in terms of material and design. It often becomes very difficult to run to different stores to find that perfect piece of gem for a perfect gift. To solve such problems, online stores are at your rescue. They offer a very wide range of different types of ornaments, various international brands and different collections.

At least since the early 1990s, the cultural field has lamented the fact that it is a disaggregated and distributed policy field. Policy agendas and new practices emerge in specific contexts, pushed along by actors and organizations that have particular interests. Leaders have increasingly become aware of the need for a consistent and powerful collective action agenda -or a common set of ideas recognized by most arts leaders, artists, arts activists and advocates as important issues for debate, dialogue, and action. \n\nThe 2008 National Performing Arts Convention was a self-conscious effort to answer this clarion call-to bring together arts leaders across disciplines to learn from each other, identify common goals, and advance a field-wide agenda. Was collective action possible? What were the constraints and opportunities for action?

South-South.info has as aim to offer a general view of the main contexts of exchange for contemporary dance in the countries of the southern part of the planet, including information on the principal festivals, spaces, articulators, publications, etc. With this initiative we intend to stimulate and facilitate international exchange, cooperation and circulation of artists and ideas from South to South.

We are the national service organization for professional dance. We believe that dance is essential to a healthy society, demonstrating the infinite possibilities for human expression and potential, and facilitating communication within and across cultures. Dance/USA sustains and advances professional dance by addressing the needs, concerns, and interests of artists, administrators and organizations. By providing services and national leadership, Dance/USA enhances the infrastructure for dance creation, education and dissemination.

African Arts is devoted to the study and discussion of traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, African Arts readers have enjoyed high-quality visual depictions, cutting-edge explorations of theory and practice, and critical dialogue. Each issue features a core of peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning the world's second largest continent and its diasporas, and provides a host of resources - book and museum exhibition reviews, exhibition previews, features on collections, artist portfolios, dialogue and editorial columns. The journal promotes investigation of the connections between the arts and anthropology, history, language, literature, politics, religion, and sociology.

ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, promotes greater understanding of African material and expressive culture in all its many forms, and encourages contact and collaboration with African and Diaspora artists and scholars.

The Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA) is a national arts service organization dedicated to serving the professional dance community in Canada.\n\nThe CDA exists to facilitate the dynamic exchange of information relevant to Canadian professional dance of all forms and aesthetics.\n\nWe strive to cultivate a strong national voice for Canadian professional dance and to support the development of resources for this field of artistic expression.

Since its inception, one mission of the AACM has been to provide an atmosphere conducive to the development of its member artists and to continue the AACM legacy of providing leadership and vision for the development of creative music. The AACM first coined the phrase Great Black Music to describe its unique direction in music. The AACM pays homage to the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the USA, Africa and throughout the world. This experience extends from the ancient musics of Africa to the music of the future.

Since 1969, VLA has been the leading provider of pro bono legal services, mediation, educational programs and publications, and advocacy to the arts community in New York and beyond. Through public advocacy, VLA frequently acts on issues vitally important to the arts community-freedom of expression and the protections to artists under the First Amendment being an area of special expertise and concern. The first arts-related legal aid organization, VLA is the model for similar organizations around the world. VLA is a nonprofit legal service organization supported in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and through generous gifts from law firms, corporations, foundations and individuals.

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David Oliveira's artworks may look like scribbled ink sketches but in fact, the Portuguese artist makes his delicate animal sculptures from wire. The Lisbon-born sculptor enjoys using wire for its "easy and spontaneous" qualities and has exhibited around the world from Spain and Turkey to the USA and Japan.