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of Artspan is to server the entire visual arts community: both
producers and consumers of art. |
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| Artspan is a major art portal to the world of contemporary
art, and the leading provider of individual artist, artisan & photographers
websites. These Artspan member sites have their own domain
names but also accessible through the Artspan.com search functions.
In addition, the sites features an Art Forum, an Articles section (coming soon), and an Art Calendar. |
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artspan at a glance
- Founded 1999
- Over 1400 member sites
- Top 10 rankings for "contemporary art" by the major search engines
- Ranked #1 by Google for "artists websites"
- 171,000 visitors and 4mm page views per month* (and growing fast!)
- 6+ million ‘hits’
*(NOT including visitors to the individual member sites) |
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Artspan aims to serve its artist members with a low cost
but complete solution to their Internet marketing needs.
The individual Artspan websites are elegant, full-functioned,
and easy to use for updating the sites and for the marketing
of artwork. Artspan also aims to make member work easy to
find by visitors using our various search functions and directories.
Both directories and searches feature member images. Visitors
find Artspan because of its visibility and high search engine
rankings. They find Artspan members by clicking on their
images in the search reasults pages or in the directories.
The mission of Artspan is to serve the entire visual arts
community: both producers and consumers of art.
The year 2007 see a real evolution of Artspan
as we begin to introduce multiple portals which will serve
as gateways to contemporary painting, photography, sculpture,
mixed media, prints, ceramics, jewelry, fiber arts and more.
These portals will serve to introduce that individual form
of expression, they will feature news and exhibits and also
incorporate alphabetical directories of the members. |
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| Artspans's Main Office |
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| Views from Artspan |
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| accross the "other" river |
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History and Team |
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| near Artspan: D & R Canal |
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Artspan was founded in 1999 by Eric Sparre, an artist, who wanted
to address the problems artists faced in setting up websites. He
saw a need for easy-to-manage low-cost elegant template websites
combined with access to traffic. The first member site went up in
early 2000 and we have been through 4 major redesigns. Other key
people associated with Artspan include Rodney, our tech lead, responsible
for all programming that runs on the back end of Artspan. Denise is
the very helpful and knowledgeable head of customer service and runs
our office. Mariana is our design head and marketing director. All
have been with the company for four or more years and are committed
to serving visual arts community. |
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