Artist Member links

The Arts Alliance has a long history of mentoring, collaborating, assisting, and promoting artists; especially artists that are members in good standing. So, as a baby step in helping out member/artists better market themselves and help create a creative community we have implemented a page on our website that lists artist/members and links to their websites. Ideally, we would love to be able to highlight an art piece on that page. For now, we are listing your name, your phone number, and a hotlink to your website.
As of this morning we only a couple of names, but as we go public in the Eddy next month and here on this blog, we anticipate we will be getting more members that want to have a link.
How do you get on that page.
1) make certain your membership is paid up to date.
2) send us a link at elkriverart@sherbtel.com with your name and phone number.
3) please wait. We have a volunteer that updates our website, and she has a day job, and a couple of other things she does, so we will probably be updating every couple of weeks.
4) put a link to our website on your website.

So, you say you don’t know the first thing about creating a website? If you live in Minnesota you can go to www.mnartists.org and put up some images and a bio on their site. Then you can send us that URL and we can link to you. This site is funded by the Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation.
If you want to know more, check out the Springboard site, as they regularly run seminars on the arts of doing business for artists.
In fact, CMAB is hosting a series of workshops by Springboard this fall on ”The Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists.” Check out CMAB’s website for more info: www.centralmnartsboard.org.

We are starting this page with visual artists, but know there are musicians and authors that are members and if you raise your collective voices we will see that we can link to you too!