About Artspan

The mission of Artspan is to serve the entire visual arts community: both producers and consumers of art.

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 are also accessible through the keywords and categories searches. They can also be found in the Directories: aphabetical, regional and category/subcategory. In addition, the sites features an Art Forum, an Articles section, an Art Calendar, and the Portals which serve as gateways to distinct genres, media and regions.

artspan at a glance

  • Founded 1999
  • Over 2200 member sites plus art gallery and association sites.
  • #1 ranking for "contemporary art" by Yahoo and Google
  • 171,000 visitors and 1mm page views per month* (and growing fast!)
  • 6+ million ‘hits’
*(NOT including visitors to the individual member sites)

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 results 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 2008 will see the continuing evolution of Artspan as we serve the contemporary art community. We will continue to introduce Portals to cover individual genres and regions. There were 21 Portals live in March 2008. These portals feature articles, reviews, events, extensive resource lists and links to individual websites. For the Portals menu, go to the Portals Menu..

1 Artspan's Main Office 1 Views From Artspan 1 across the other river

History and Team

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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 5 major redesigns. Other key people associated with Artspan include Caoimhin, our tech lead, responsible for all programming that runs on the back end of Artspan, with assistance from Rodney. Denise is the very helpful and knowledgeable head of customer service and runs our office. Mariana is our design head with Artun as web designer.. Finally, Nina Alvarez is our Portals and Articles Editor. Most have been with the company for four or more years and are committed to serving the visual arts community. Artspan also works with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and P.R. consultants and with others.

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