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, Artspan.com features an Art Forum, an Art Calendar, and the Portals which serve as gateways to distinct genres, media and regions.

artspan at a glance

  • Founded 1999
  • 3,700 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 Prints-on-Demand and individual Shopping Carts features were the biggest developments of 2009. The year 2010 will see the continuing evolution of Artspan as we introduce new templates for full and associate members in the beginning of the year and continue to work on enhancements for the member sites thoroughout the year. We will also work to flesh out our site content, as we update and expand existing Portals and continue to introduce new ones. Finally, we will look to raise our profile in all the ways we can.

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, whose original goal was to address the problems artists faced in setting up websites. Other key people associated with Artspan include Caoimhin, our tech lead, responsible, with Rodney, for the programming that drives Artspan. A big development in 2009 was having Rodney rejoin us full-time. Denise is the very helpful and knowledgeable head of customer service and runs our office. Mariana is our design head, with help from Charlotte. Finally, Ruth Ann Bohlander is our Content Editor. Most have been with the company for seven or more years and are committed to this project and the Artspan community. Artspan also works with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and P.R. consultants and with and others on a contract basis..