Professional Resources - Art & Visual Communication
Advertising Photographers of America
http://www.apanational.com/
APA's mission is successful advertising photographers. Their goal is to establish, endorse, and promote professional practices, standards, and ethics in the photographic and advertising community.

American Advertising Federation
http://www.aaf.org/
As the "Unifying Voice for Advertising," the American Advertising Federation (AAF), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the trade association that represents 50,000 professionals in the advertising industry. 

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
http://www.artswire.org/
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) helps artists turn inspiration into art by giving more money and support to individual artists and arts organizations than any other comparable institution in the U.S.

American Cinematographer
http://www.theasc.com/
The ASC is not a labor union or guild, but is an educational, cultural and professional organization. Membership is possible by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography with distinguished credits in the industry.

American Institute of Graphic Artists
http://www.aiga.org/
AIGA, the professional association for communication design, is committed to furthering excellence in communication design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force

American Marketing Association
http://www.ama.org/
The American Marketing Association, one of the largest professional associations for marketers, has 38,000 members worldwide in every area of marketing.

Art Directors Club
http://www.adcglobal.org/main.html  
The ADC is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind.

Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/

ArtsEdge
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
ARTS EDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience.

Art Museum Network
http://www.amn.org/
The Art Museum Network is a media company serving the interests of the world's leading art museums.  

Association for Women in Communications
http://www.womcom.org/

Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
http://www.cios.org/
The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship is a U.S. Federal Tax Code 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization supporting the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education.


Communications Roundtable
http://www.roundtable.org/
An association of public relations, marketing, graphics, advertising, training, and other communications organizations with more than 12,000 professional members

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
http://www.camh.org/
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national and regional art of the last 40 years  

International Advertising Association
http://www.iaaglobal.org/
The International Advertising Association attracted 1,300 participants from 42 nations to its 39th World Congress in Beijing making it the largest global congress of its kind in the advertising industry.

Library of Congress Exhibitions
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits

Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
http://www.mfah.org/

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/

National Museum of American Art
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/

Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/newstart.htm

Theispot.com
http://www.theispot.com/
The premier illustration Internet site. Browse through our portfolios from over 1,000 of the world's top illustrators.

World Wide Web Artists Consortium
http://wwwac.org/
The WWWAC was started by Web developers in December 1994 and incorporated as a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3), corporation in the State of New York, in June, 1997.

Webgrrls
http://www.webgrrls.com/
Webgrrls International provides a forum for women in or interested in new media and technology.


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