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A National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum web page on recent acquisitions features these four video clips:

• Photographer Brent Phelps presented a gallery talk on February 10, 2005 about his exhibition "Photographing the Lewis and Clark Trail." He discusses in this 4 1/2 minute clip the location of Sgt. Floyd's death at the I-129 Bridge and his various burials.
• Painter Charles Fritz presented a gallery talk on February 11, 2005 about his exhibition "An Artist With the Corps of Discovery." In this 2 1/2 minute clip Fritz discusses the clothing worn by the men pictured in his painting, Mapping the Missouri ~ Winter Afternoon at Fort Mandan.
• History Curator Richard Rattenbury makes opening remarks at a behind the scenes tour of the exhibit "The Art of American Arms Makers."
• Contemporary Western artist Luke Frazier explains the apparent paradox of being both a hunter and a wildlife artist in a February 14, 2004 presentation.

The National Gallery of Canada website contains a section named Meet the Artist. In this section, artists talk about their work and share their thoughts on the role of contemporary art in today's world. It provides personal insights into why artists create, their choice of materials, the major influences on their work, and the effect that new technologies have had on their work. The Meet the Artist interviews were conducted while the artists visited the National Gallery to install their work. It introduces viewers to the richness and diversity of the Gallery's contemporary art collection. The National Gallery presents Claes Oldenburg from the "Meet the Artist" series.

The Nebraska Digital Alliance for the Arts is a vision for the application of digital technologies as a tool for Nebraska arts organizations, artists, performers, musicians, theatres, symphonies, museums, educators, and universities. This video provides a look at what the future could be; an exciting venture to equip artists and organizations to form, manage, and operate their own coalition.

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications offers "Art Treasures of Nebraska" a series on one-minute video clips of artists featured in Nebraska Museums. To see the series click on a museum name at the top of the page. As an alternate go to Google Video and enter the keywords "Art Treasures of Nebraska".

From NECN: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opens an Edward Hopper exhibit, 6m:33s. Truveo.com says of the video: "He's one of the most popular American painters of the 20th century, Edward Hopper. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has just opened a new Hopper exhibit. Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe and Carol... He's one of the most popular American painters of the 20th century, Edward Hopper. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has just opened a new Hopper exhibit. Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe and Carol Troyen have more."

New England Aquarium partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:

• Fish Worship and Art by Ray Troll, fin artist (50 minutes) From his tree-top studio, high above the Tongass Narrows in rainswept Katchikan Alaska, Ray Troll draws and paints fishy images that migrate into museums, books and magazines and onto t-shirts sold round the globe. Basing his quirky, aquatic images on the latest scientific discoveries, Ray brings a street-smart sensibility to the worlds of ichthyology & paleontology. Over the years, Ray has done artwork for various conservation organizations including the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. [April 30, 2007]

In From Incubation to Birth, January 13, 2007. The New York Times chief art critic, Michael Kimmelman, discusses the life and works of ceramic artist Jun Kaneko.including giant heads reminiscent of Easter Island that the artist is creating at a sewer pipe factory.

From New Mexico PBS via YouTube, a six minute video Maria Martinez: Notable New Mexican. Also see Allan Houser: Notable New Mexican from New Mexico PBS - 5 minutes - Jul 17, 2006.

The North Dakota Museum of Art presented in 2004 an installation by video artist Mary Lucier titled Mary Lucier: The Plains of Sweet Regret, which contains a video clip from the installation comprising an 18 minute loop of synchronized DVD video on four plasma monitors.

Nova Southeastern University partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:

• Dale Chihuly's Glass Garden by Nora Quinlan, researcher, Alvin Sherman Library, NSU. (3 minutes) The NSU Glass Garden by Dale Chihuly in the atrium of the Alvin Sherman Library on the Nova Southeastern University campus is a rare opportunity for the public to view and enjoy a beautiful one-of-a-kind glass sculpture for free. Watch as this permanent exhibit is installed and learn a bit about Chihuly's creative process. [April 27, 2007]
  

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TFAO catalogues:

• American Representational Art links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art
• Audio Online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings
• Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections
• Distinguished Artists a national registry of historic artists
• Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.
• Illustrated Audio Online streaming online narrated slide shows
• Articles and Essays Online substantive texts published outside of Resource Library
• Videos Online a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers
• Videos an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format
• Books sampler of general reference books published on paper
• Interactive media media in CD-ROM format
• Magazines a comprehensive list of paper-published magazines and journals

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