Selected Chicago-City
Links
Comprehensive AIDS service provider for northern Cook County.
CBHC is a coalition of organizations and individuals, working to help create and advocate for an accessible, quality health care system that provides for everyone. With offices in both Champaign, IL and Chicago, CBHC's energetic and dedicated staff employ a tenacious grassroots campaign to educate and involve health care consumers, build coalitions with other organizations who share their commitment to social justice, and make regulatory and legislative changes at the local, state and national levels.
CAN TV provides Chicagoans opportunity to train in video production facilities and make their own local broadcasts on five community stations.
This annual Art Fair Directory has been developed to help artists find arts fairs at which to sell and promote their work.
The Chicago Photography Center is a non-profit working to provide learning resources for photographers. It encompasses technical training, frequent critiques and gallery shows all within a supportive photographic community.
Printmaking facility providing continued education classes, exhibitions, guest artists, facilities, equipment use and printing services to local artists. They offer workshops and classes for a variety of workshops and techniques.
Located on the first floor of the Cottage View Terrace senior residential building, Cottage View Health Center's primary focus is serving the health needs of the senior population of the Grand Boulevard, Kenwood, and Oakland communities on the South side of Chicago.
Counterproductiveindustries.com is a Chicago-based activist arts organization that utilizes public interventions, temporary collectives, street theatre and creative resistance projects. The site seems dormant but has documentation of their projects up until 2004.
Publisher of weekly emailed magazines for the local scene: music, art, fashion, etc. Curated listings and short descriptions.
Exhibitions. Contact them for information about submission guidelines.
Located in Southwest Humboldt Park, the Louise Landau Health Center is conveniently located in this rapidly growing community. This center boasts of state of the art medical facilities. $15 visits for the unemployed and uninsured.
Material Exchange is a small Chicago-based collective comprised of artists and designers. Material Exchange intends to facilitate the exchange of materials between local organizations demonstrating a need and creatively meeting these needs through upcycling of cast-off materials.
The Men's Art Forum provides revitalizing creative experiences. The MAF is a safe place to play, where men can express themselves and give form to their creative spirit in any medium. Membership is comprised of artists and non-artists.
Merchandise Mart's December Fair
The Resurrection Project is an institution-based neighborhood organization whose mission is to build relationships and challenge people to act on their faith and values to create healthy communities through education, organizing and community development.
Runs affordable interMedia arts and technology workshops, offering the opportunity to learn and make art in a full-time, fully operational artist studio and occasional gallery.
CVP brings the power of professional video production and facilities to advocacy groups, community development organizations, labor unions, foundations, and others across the country working to promote social and economic justice.
NNHSC’s Winfield Moody Health Center has been serving Chicago's Cabrini Green area since 1966. With a new building, state-of-the-art equipment and expert staff that understands health care as a complex set of relationships between ‘body and soul’.
Selected National/International Links
UK based ADAM is a free, searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been selected and catalogued by professional librarians.
An extensive list of resources and information concerning both adult and children's health issues.
Serving the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances.
A publishing company primarily focusing on business and self-help books for artists, designers, photographers, writers, film, and performing artists.
Podcasts of the Walker Art Center's Audio Tours.
ArtCast is a podcast from Basel, Germany that talks about art in whatever form it appears.
ArtDispatch is an enhanced podcast about the visual arts originating from New York City. It presents artists, curators, scholars, collectors and dealers in their own voices, offering a direct vantage on contemporary and historical art.
Links and referrals to information regarding health and safety issues for artists
artline is a searchable catalogue of over 675 art dealers, and over 1000 fine artists, 1500-2000 AD, listed alphabetically by painting, prints, drawing, sculpture, and photography.
Advocates for creative approaches to social change, bringing the creative sector and stakeholders of development together to empower socially and economically disadvantaged communities.
A comprehensive online directory of links related to the arts.
BOA was developed to provide artists with access to health coverage, dental insurance, technical assistance, discounted products and services through a nationwide network of partners.
A long list of classic and current books that write about the subject of divine and creative inspiration.
Provides additional information on chemical and material hazards in the workspace, as well as a database of these hazards.
Information on how to properly care for photographs, photographic prints and the care of photography collections.
Provides links to several articles on health safety in the studio.
A health surveillance system to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks (including bioterrorism.) Maintains national health statistics and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
The Getty Foundation has an extensive on-line free research library of art, design, photography, conservation, and digital images.
The Critical Ceramics web site features articles, reviews, current events, discussions, and online critiques. They promote different cultures, contemporary artists and reviews of notable ceramic exhibitions from around the globe.
Eclectic, but extensively researched links on Art and Art Image Banks. Maintained by a librarian.
Extensively researched list of links to digital image banks of every kind. List is maintained by a librarian.
Extensively researched list of links to every kind of digital search tool and database. List is maintained by a librarian.
Good step by step 'how to' article on building furniture for your studio out of available parts -many photos.
Steve Wilson, is a Professor in the Conceptual Information Arts Dept. at San Francisco State University, and this is his famous and extensive list of links to New Media Research areas, festivals, organizations and artists who work with electronic media art.
The Exploratorium, in San Francisco, houses hundreds of interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art, and human perception. The museum has an educational center and offers artist residencies, exhibitions and a website with many art and technology resources.
Information about art censorship
A very good collection of free online computer (software and web programming )and technology (microprocessor) reference books.
The Grassroots Fundraising Journal is a resource to help raise money from community-based sources and focuses on strategies to increase your income and diversify your sources of funding.
We're a bunch of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks. We have produced posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large.
HowStuffWorks is an online source for thousands of articles and illustrations with clear explanations of how everything actually works.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive is a library of articles on the web.
Europe based Likeyou.com offers a concentrated overview of current contemporary art.
Helping media designers and communicators understand how to use professional tools and design to enhance visual communication through web, print, and motion graphics.
MAKE Magazine is a quarterly publication that helps you apply the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with illustrated easy step-by-step instructions to build exciting projects that could be seen as both artworks and home inventions.
International film and TV production resource and contact listings.
National subscription-based online portfolio service and sales gallery. Service also allows you to submit applications to multiple fairs, exhibitions, and art expos across the country.
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's archive of audio tours, Art Talk archive, and Podcast directory.
The mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing or controlling those diseases, birth defects, disabilities, or deaths that result from interactions with the environment.
Works to reduce human illness by studying environmental and individual factors underlying disease.
A program of the Center for Disease Control, The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related disease and injury.
Its mission is to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health, and environmental policies that prevent human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes.
Article with advice on making public art and what to expect.
NYCOSH has more than 150 links to news items about safety and health, arranged by topic and chronologically within a topic. Topics include asbestos, cancer, reproductive hazards and much, much more.
OCHP supports and facilitates EPA's efforts to protect children's health from environmental threats.
This Office operates a grant program for state and local governments, conducts research and outreach on healthy homes, enforces the lead hazard disclosure law, and develops lead-based paint regulations and policies.
OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education.
Resource website for best practices in community planning and development. Excellent contextual information for those interested in making art in the public sector.
PhotoNotes.org is a free public information resource with camera reviews for the Internet photographic community. They also offer a searchable on-line photographic glossary.
Public Art Online is a public art resource website for newer and more experienced public art artists in all disciplines. It contains practical guidance, case studies from around the world, and useful links.
E-books 'how to's' on pottery and ceramics.
Links to sites with photos of robots, Web-enabled embedded systems, physical robot construction, walking robots, Robotics Organizations, micro-controllers, interesting electronic and mechanical parts + companies, motor control electronics, sensors, and batteries.
A comprehensive resource for sculptors.
Artist who does oral history installations.
Users can create computer models online, which can be made to move as if they actually had muscles and mass. There are forums for users to talk about their 'models', a 'Sodazoo' (for featured models), and a 'Sodarace', where models can race against each other.
Learn about appropriate, effective technology suited to your budget.
Selection of over 14 short articles with tips on health and safety when working with art materials .
Good book list with topics ranging from Activism, Cultural Democracy, Dance, Education, Environment, Media Arts, Music, Public Art, Theater/Performance and Visual Art.
Advice on glues and gluing together just about anything you can think of.
tiffany holmes ‘cropped animation still from follow the mouse’ 2001-2002
