If you can't afford to buy these publications yourself, buy them with a friend or find them at the library. If you have any other recommendations please email them to us.
(Please also see the Health Care Info
& Job search info section)
(All area codes are 617 unless otherwise denoted)
Good publications: business & grant writing
Associate Grant Makers Guide to Funders in Massachusetts - buy it from AGM 426-2606- around $50-60 (also in AGM's library, the Boston
Public Library Humanities/social science dept. & in other libraries).
Doing Business in Boston- author: Levine Published by Boston Business Journal- 330-1000 - around $55 - a copy is in the Kirstein Business Branch of the Boston Public Library (523-0860) and more than likely also in the BPL main branch (this book will be useful for locating in kind support, jobs, materials, what businesses might buy art, etc..).
Book of Lists- Published by Boston Business Journal- 330-1000. It compiles all of their great lists of companies they do through out the year - a copy is in the Kirstein Business Branch of the Boston Public Library (523-0860) and more than likely also in the BPL main branch (this book will be useful for locating in kind support, jobs, materials, what businesses might buy art, etc..).
Boston Business Journal - a weekly paper that is very helpful to artists, small business and the self employed. 330-1000
Good publications for all artists
Alliance
of Artists Communities Directory of Residencies (& what residencies
give grants to go, etc..) in US and abroad. About $25- order directly (401)
239-7049.
artsMEDIA- a bimonthly publication on the arts in Massachusetts and beyond- mainly visual arts but has poetry, film reviews etc.. FREE if one picks it up or one can subscribe.
Art New England also a bimonthly publication on the arts in New England
Carolina Biological Supply Company - their catalog a must have for those in visual arts and theater arts for props and other strange materials- 1-800-334-5551
Public Art (all genres)
Public Art Review (612) 641-1128. It is carried at most book stores who have a good art magazine section.
Mapping The Terrain: New Genre Public Art. edited by Suzanne Lacy, published by Bay Press Seattle Washington © 1995. A book that will enable you to see the scope of Public Art. This book has info on such artists as, Meirle Lauderman Ukels, who, since 1970, has been an unpaid artist-in-residence at the NYC sanitation department (see pages 281-282).
Publications for Visual Artists-
including media artists & crafts people
The newsletter of the Artists
Resource Center at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston.
ARTISTS BEWARE- by Michael McCann. PH.D. Watson-Guptill Publications/New York ©1979 (The Hazards and precautions in Working with Art and Craft Materials.
The Artist's Handbook - The complete, practical guide to the tools, techniques and materials of painting , drawing and printmaking. By Ray Smith Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc ©1987
ACT's Newsletter & other publications (Arts,Crafts & Theater Safety) (212) 777-0062.
The bimonthly newsletter from the Resource Center at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts 369-3635
ArtCalendar - The business magazine for visual artists (410) 749-9626- It is carried at most book stores who have a good art magazine section.
Sculptors/installation/pubic art
Sculpture Magazine
(609) 689-1051. It is carried at most book stores who have a good art magazine
section. (It is also a membership organization that has: health care plan,
slide registry, insurance for art work, newsletters etc.)
Theater arts
Act's Newsletter & other publications (Arts,Crafts & Theater Safety) (212) 777-0062.
StageSource Resource Guide - 720-6066
Dance
Act's Newsletter & other publications (Arts,Crafts & Theater Safety) (212) 777-0062.
