April 8, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
A national program to provide Internet instruction to non-profit arts organizations is expanding its reach.
Open Studio: The Arts Online will provide $25,000 apiece to 10 groups so they can train local artists and arts groups to use the Internet to communicate with one another, attract new people to arts events, and display and create art work.
The program started in early 1997 with 10 training sites, and it has helped more than 600 artists and arts groups in 28 states build Web sites or use other on-line technology. The new sites will focus on helping artists and arts groups in poor rural and urban areas.
The Open Studio Web site has also been expanded to provide training tools, links to on-line arts resources, and advice from participants in the program. The site also includes Digital Canvas, a new on-line magazine that discusses the arts and technology.
Open Studio is run by the Benton Foundation, in Washington, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
TO GET THERE: Go to http://www.openstudio.org.
