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Visual and Performing Arts

Featured Resources (access from home with your library card)

Local Art and Music Resources

• Carmel Art Association - Founded in 1927, Carmel's oldest gallery features the work of more than 120 professional local artists.
• Carmel Art Gallery Directory - Listing of fine art galleries in Carmel.
• Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival
• Carmel Bach Festival - Information on festival programs, tickets, etc.
• Sunset Center

Local Theater

• Carl Cherry Center for the Performing Arts
• Forest Theater Guild - Outdoor Forest Theater.
• Pacific Repertory Theater

Architecture

• Digital Archive of American Architecture - 1,500 digitized images of American architecture.
• Digital Archive of European Architecture - Archive of images.
• Great Buildings Collection - Architectural history and current architecture. 1000 famous buildings and hundreds of architects.

Art and Artists

• Art History Resources on the Web - Extensive directory of links to art history resources.
• Artcyclopedia- Guide to art on the internet; includes artists and art history.
• Askart - 24,000 North American artists' auction records, biographies, exhibitions, references and more. Some services are fee-based.
• Getty Union List of Artists' Names Online -  includes 293,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects.

Music

• All Music Guide - Album reviews, artist profiles, discographies, music styles, and more.
• Opera Glass - Librettos, synopses.
• Santa Cruz Public Library's Sheet Music Database - More than 25,000 pieces of sheet music. Most of the music in the collection is for piano and guitar. Items from this collection are available through interlibrary loan- just ask at the reference desk.

Photography

• Ansel Adams Gallery - Biographical and print information.
• Edward Weston - Biographical and print information.

Theater and Film

• Doolee.com - Database of plays, playwrights, theaters, characters and literary agents since 1956.
• Internet Broadway Database - The official database for Broadway theatre information.
• Internet Movie Database -  cast and crew lists, synopses, for TV and film
• Playbill - News, features, performance listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, London and Regional theatre.