LA Arts Cooperative is a non-profit artist-run organization that allows Los Angeles artists to cooperate and promote themselves online. Its focus is its Web site la-arts.com, which is organized into sections for music, dance, theatre, visual arts, film and literature. Each section is run by a volunteer coordinator who is an artist in the field. The site features, for each field:

• comprehensive listings of:
  • individuals and organizations involved in the field, with contact information
  • events
  • classes
  • venues used in the field
  • grants, competitions, presentation opportunities
• reviews of events and art works by artists in the field
• news

The site is set up as a membership-based database-driven Web application, which allows artists and art organizations to input and update information about their own contacts, events, activities and venues, and facilitates a decentralized, community-based editorial process.

LA Arts Cooperative also provides a variety of Internet-related services to LA arts organizations and individual artists:

• Short (day or half-day) seminars on using Internet technologies, such as:
  • Web site design
  • Putting pictures and other images on Web sites
    
  • Audio and video for Web sites
• Matching services to connect volunteer Web designers to organizations that need them
• Low-cost Web hosting and list-management services for arts organizations

For more information, contact Dean Wallraff.