TheArtTrade.com, a social networking and media-sharing site for artists, vendors, and patrons initially features four cities around the United States, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. The site serves as an online hub where everyone within the arts can share their work, services, materials, ideas, critiques, and more.
TheArtTrade.com provides a forum that focuses solely on sharing creative talents, inspiring and promoting collaboration, networking and productivity within the arts.
There are three levels to TheArtTrade.com with several options for creativity and sharing within each. First, artists connect with one another based on appreciation of each other’s talent to promote collaboration, trading and incorporating different mediums into their work. Jewelry can be traded for pottery or artists can collaborate placing video art inside of an oil painting. There are endless possibilities. Second, artists are able to share their work with vendors such as gallery owners and dealers to promote themselves and each other. Finally, patrons of the arts are able to network, establishing relationships with both vendors and artists in hopes of making it easier to spread new and refreshing work throughout the country and eventually the world.
The site helps local artists continue creation during this difficult time, as well as collaborate using multimedia which is one of young artists great advantages to share with each other and work together. TheArtTrade.com’s online community of artists is a great initial meeting place but still encourages artists to establish authentic relationships in person, always using common sense.
Besides a networking tool, TheArtTrade.com is also the destination for all your art enthusiasts needs. Capturing art around the country through video and interviewing some of the best and brightest in the art world today will ensure that artists acquire the correct guidance needed to continue on their positive journey.
TheArtTrade.com has been a labor of love that sprang from my own creative need. As an artist looking for a sense of community, I often felt isolated and overwhelmed. I was uncertain exactly how to approach and navigate the complexities of the art world. Determined to gain a better understanding of the current state of art - media, process, personalities, venues - I attended art fairs, interviewed artists, dealers and collectors, resulting in the creation of this web site, TheArtTrade.com.
I realize that individual struggle and solitary contemplation are necessary parts of the creative process, however I also believe in the value of on-going communication amongst artists and their supporters and that ultimately collaboration with others is a vital part of an artist's success.
My hope is that TheArtTrade.com will provide an encouraging and supportive venue for artists to share their passion and creativity as well as their own personal dreams and struggles. I envision a virtual highway that facilitates communication between artists, buyers, vendors and gallery owners and in the process creates an invaluable database of information for those involved in creating, buying and selling art.
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Art in the Barn
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Fine Art and Crafts at Anderson Park
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TheArtTrade.com, a social networking and media-sharing site for artists, vendors, and patrons initially features four cities around the United States, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. The site serves as an online hub where everyone within the arts can share their work, services, materials, ideas, critiques, and more.
