After 5 years in promoting the arts on the web, we have verified a great difference of results among artists who simply show their artworks online, and artists who actively work around their web sites and constantly update and promote their pages.

So we decided to modify our admission's rules to open a "Virtual Studio" in the NeT-ArT Gallery. Besides our traditional quality based artworks selection, we added some rules regarding artist's knowledge of the web and a little of webmastering knowledge:

• you must have an internet access
• you must have your artworks as .jpg files, and you must know how to modify their size (in pixels)
• you must be able to build webpages, coding in html language or using an Editor (Netscape Composer, Microsoft FrontPage, etc.)
• you must be able to upload files to a web server using FTP software (WSFTP, etc.)
• you must be able to promote your webpages (search engine submission, etc.)
• you undertake to frequently update your pages
• you must have an email address and you have to quickly answer to visitor's messages and requests
• you undertake to promote NeT-ArT when you organize an exhibition, printing our Logo in your usual publications (Press Releases, brochures, catalogs, etc.).
• you undertake to participate in interactive events organized by NeT-ArT (according to your possibilities and time)
• you have to cooperate with other artists and collaborators, according to your possibilities and knowledge)

If accepted in the Gallery, you will obtain a Directory on NeT-ArT server (www.net-art.it/yourdirectory) with full FTP access, and lots of other features and utilities.
We accept no more than 4 artist each month, so we are very selective.
The Service is free!
 
 

If you are not able to build webpages (and you don't have a webmaster who can do it for you), but your artwork is accepted by NeT-ArT Direction, you can:

• exhibit your artworks for free in the Group Gallery: you must only have your artworks as .jpg files, and you will simply upload your image to the gallery via a web control panel

• open your "Virtual Studio" in the NeT-ArT Gallery: we will build your pages, and you will have to pay for something you could obtain for free (see description and price). We want to discourage the use of the web as a simple catalog for your artworks, and we work to make the web a true interactive place

If you already have a website, you can try lots of useful services and utilities, listed in the Free Section of NeT-ArT and, in any case, you can request your "Virtual Studio" in the Gallery, even if we will pay more attention to the requests of artists not yet represented on the web.
 
 

Selling your artworks

NeT-ArT don't intermediate between artist and buyer: the artist will be directly contacted by the buyer via email, fixing prices, deciding payment options and providing shipping.
NeT-ArT do not require commission fee for sales of artworks showed in our site, but we accept free donations (artworks donation too): remember that many galleries require commissions till 50%!!
 
 

Other Services

Many artists ask us to completely manage their web activity: large personal web sites, web design, online shopping systems, web promotion, search engine registrations, etc.
Other artists request non-web services: organization of exhibitions in real gallery, traditional promotion (press releases, mailing), etc.
See the Services Area for these requests.
 

Attention: if you need someone who constantly and continuously hold your relations with buyers, galleries, press, web sites, etc., you will have to pay a personal art-manager, and you will fix the cost with him. Currently we don't provide this service, but we are building a Forum to facilitate contacts between artists and art-manager.