Festivals.com
http://www.festivals.com
Launched in 1995, Festivals.com is the largest resource on the Internet for information about community festivals, including film, visual arts, music, and other cultural events. Festivals.com lists over 40,000 community events worldwide.

The Field
http://www.thefield.org
The Field is a membership organization offering programs that help independent artists create new artwork, manage their careers, and develop long-range strategies for sustaining a life in the arts. For the public, they produce several performance series. Each year, The Field serves over 1,000 artists in the disciplines of dance, theater, music, text, performance art and film/video. The Field provides comprehensive programming for New York artists on a non-curated basis, open to artists from all aesthetic viewpoints and levels of development. The Field's creative programs include "Fieldwork" workshops, "Artward Bound" residencies, and a video-editing training program. The Field's management programs include workshops on individual management skills, group management, writing about work, grant writing, consultation, and non-profit sponsorship. The Field publishes several industry guides, including Space Chase (a guide to performance and rehearsal spaces in New York City, as well as a compilation of out-of-town festivals, residencies and artist colonies), Funding Guide, Self-Production Guide, and Gone With the Field Guide (describes alternative performing possibilities for independent artists in select cities across the United States. It can be useful for setting up tours or as a preliminary introduction to other artistic communities).

Alliance of Artists Communities (United States)
http://www.artistcommunities.org/
Publisher of the comprehensive Artists' Communities Directory, the Alliance of Artists Communities website includes much of the same information available in the book (listed by artistic category - visual arts, writing, music/dance/performance, architecture & design, scholarship, film/video & media, and interdisciplinary - and by American region), including contact information, facilities descriptions, and email and web links for applications, guidelines, and further information. Membership is available for artists community administrators and organizations. The Alliance of Artists Communities guide is almost exclusively limited to American residencies (there are some exceptions, with links to communitites such as the American Academies in Rome and Berlin, and Soros Center For Contemporary Arts in Prague, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and others).

NYFA Source
http://www.nyfa.org
Free of charge and open to artists across America, the New York Foundation on the Arts has created NYFA Source, the most extensive national database of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists, arts organizations, and the general public can access information on over 2,600 arts organizations, 2,700 award programs, 2,100 service programs, and 700 publications for individual artists nationwide, with more programs added every day. NYFA's former Visual Artist Information Hotline, a popular information service used by more than 38,000 visual artists last year, was expanded to create NYFA Source. NYFA Source will also enable arts funders, researchers and policymakers to acquire information about patterns and trends in artists' support.