Here are some links to great galleries, organizations, magazines and suppliers. Please feel free to offer new links–just email me with the full name and web address for your link and I'll post it.

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Art Centers (Local to DC)

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Art Galleries Online

• The Annapolis Gallery Association
• Gallery Magazine–DC area directory of galleries
• Guide to DC Art on the Web

LOCAL GALLERIES TO THE DC AREA

• Artline
• The Art League of Alexandria, Virginia. Class listings and gallery shows at the Torpedo Factory
• Broadway Gallery, Alexandria, VA
• Century Gallery, Alexandria, VA
• Marin-Price Gallery – a great place in Bethesda, MD showing contemporary painterly realism & impressionism.
• Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia. Great gallery in the heart of Alexandria, 1 block from the Torpedo Factory.
• Susan Conway Gallery, Washington DC
• Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia.
• Washington DC Top Ten Art Galleries
• Wohlfarth Galleries, DC. Proponents of the Cape Cod School of Art.

FountainSide Fine Art Gallery, Wilmington, NC
Globe Theatre, Berlin, MD
Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, DE
Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Peter McPhee Fine Arts, Stone Harbor, NJ

NATIONAL GALLERIES (great for inspiration)

www.findartinfo.com

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Art Groups/Organizations

DC AREA

• Art League of Germantown
• Maryland Pastel Society
• Maryland State Arts Council
• Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association
• Sugarloaf Crafts Festivals–Festival listings, and online gallery and store of contemporary fine art and crafts (I designed the site!).
  
• Washington Society of Landscape Painters–Some of the finest plein air painters in the area are in this oldest of Washington arts groups.

MID-ATLANTIC

• Cape May County Art League
• Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association
• Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters of the Eastern Shore
• Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast

NATIONAL

• Allied Artists of America
• American Impressionist Society
• American Society of Classical Realism
• American Watercolor Society
• The Artist's Network
• Arts for the Parks
• Christians in the Visual Arts
• Colored Pencil Society of America
• The Hilliard Society's Web Page (miniatures)
• International Association of Pastel Societies
• Oil Painters of America
• Pastel Society of America
• World Federation of Miniaturists

INTERNATIONAL

• Landscape Artists International

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Art Schools Local to DC

• The Art League, Alexandria, VA
• Maryland College of Art & Design
• Maryland Hall for The Creative Arts
• Maryland Institute, College of Art
• Montgomery College

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Equipment

• Armstrong Products, Inc.
• Convention and trade show display booth items
• Economy Flat File Storage
• The Easel Connection
• EZ-Go Artists Gear
• Graphic Display Systems
• Guerrilla Painting Supplies – Pochade Boxes & Carrying Cases
• MBL Design – super cheap wet panel carriers
• Open Box M
• Propanels
• StudioPack
• Sun Eden Design – EZ-Go Artist Gear
• Willow Wisp Farm Studios

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Frames

• American Frame
• ArtFrames–Quality art frames at discount prices
• Castner Picture Frame Company
• PictureFrames.com
• Studio Art & Framing, Ocean City, MD

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Graphic / Web Design

• Dawson Studios–(tbaxter@erols.com) Thirty years of experience in the field doing both print graphics and web design. I designed the original MAPAPA site. Link here for more information: http://www.toddbaxterdawson.com/DESIGN/web.html
• WNETDESIGN.com - Professional web design services for small businesses on a budget - www.wnetdesign.com.

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Magazines

American Artist Magazine
Art of the West
The Artist's Magazine
• International Artist Magazine
• Plein Air Magazine – New as of June 04!
• Southwest Art Magazine

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Museums

• The Baltimore Museum of Art
• Brandywine River Museum–featuring the work of three generations of Wyeths
• The Corcoran Gallery of Art
• The Freer Gallery of Art and
  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
• The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• National Gallery of Art
• National Museum of American Art
• National Portrait Gallery
• The Phillips Collection
• The Walters Art Museum
  
  
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA–The museum is home to the finest collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings in public or private hands.
• Museum of Modern Art
• The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
  
• The Louvre, France
• The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
• The Prado, Spain
• The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• The Tate, London

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Plein Air Groups

• International Plein Air Painters
• Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
• PleinAirArt.net- a listing of all plein air events across the nation
• Plein Air Florida
• Plein Air Painters of America
• Plein Air Painters of Oregon
• Southern California Plein Air Painters Association
• Tucson Plein Air Painters' Society
• Washington Society of Landscape Painters

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Portraiture

• American Society of Portrait Artists
• The New York Society of Portrait Artists
• A Stroke of Genius Portrait Gallery–a web site dedicated to fine art portraiture.
• A Stroke of Genius: Resources–valuable resources for the portrait artist
• Portrait Society of America–preserving the tradition of fine art portraiture.

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Services for Artists

• ArtPromote–resources for artists
• GammaTech.com–slides from scans, all online. 24 hr service!
• Old Town Editions–Giclee Printers
• Rieger Communications–photographing art, slides, scanning

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Supplies

• Ampersand Art Supply
• Art Supply Warehouse (ASW)
• Art Things in Annapolis
• Artwork Essentials
• Billups Fine Art
• Dakota Art Pastels
• FineArtStore.com
• Frenchcanvas.com
• Gamblin Paints
• Guerrilla Painting Supplies
• Jerry's Artarama
• MisterArt.com
• New York Central Art Supply
• Plein Air Painting Supplies
• RayMar, Supplies for the Artist
• SourceTek Painting Panels
• Utrecht
• Willow Wisp Farm Studios
• Winsor & Newton

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