About The ArtistsCenter

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What is The ARTISTScenter?

The ARTISTScenter is a blog (weblog) website designed to help visual artists learn how to market their work by providing cutting edge artist focused content.

You will find:

• A repository of useful articles for both emerging and seasoned visual artists. The articles are designed to help you with all aspects of branding and marketing yourself as a thriving visual artist
• A collection of practical lessons designed to help you implement the concepts presented here. Like how to use social networks to build a strong following.
• A collection of audio video recordings about critical issues related to branding and marketing your art You can listen to the  recordings at any time on your MP3 player or through your computer speakers.
• A form for building a community of support, learning and conversation for visual artists.
• A collection of tools and resources chosen specifically for their usefulness to working artists.
• Fresh content is added regularly including podcast interviews with other artists and experts, how-to instructional articles as audio and/or video dealing with current hot issues like developing additional income streams, and automating many of your marketing tasks.

Who Is behind The ARTISTScenter?

Bill Weaver

The ARTISTScenter content is produced by Bill Weaver, an award winning photographer, visual artist and designer. Bill has worked as an artist, designer, teacher and photographer beginning at a very young age. His mother was a prolific painter and his father was an architect/engineer and inventor.

Bill Created The ARTISTScenter after 15 years as a working clay artist and photographer led him to question the standard ways artists market their work. In 2004 along with 3 other artists he explored ways to educate the public about the value of hand made work and fine art. Since then he discovered a number of issues that were limiting artists success:

• A common mindset that encouraged artists to see themselves as less than valuable and reinforced their self-view as starving and struggling artists.
• Reliance on the random nature of art fair and  gallery sales as their primary source of income was not working and also reinforced the starving artist image.
• There was not a reliable business or marketing model for artists that could give them the tools to brand and market themselves and their art consistently.
• They were not up to date with the changes in marketing and generally tended
• resist those changes because of the technology  and time involved in the learning process.
• Their view of marketing was stuck in an outdated and abandoned model and that did not lend itself to the nuances of the working artist life.
• When faced with the choice of marketing vs. studio work they always chose studio work due largely to an absence of current business tools available to the solo business owner.

Bill works from his home office and draws on a large network of business colleagues possessing a deep array of skills. As a result, he can tailor his programs, workshops and writing to the specific needs of working artists.

How to use this site.

This site is built on the powerful blogging program WordPress which for quick updates and posting. There are specific organizational to be aware of in order to help you navigate easily through  the site.

The content of the site is organized around categories and pages. The categories and page titles are designed to reflect particular subject areas relevant to working artists.

CATEGORIES - are like file folders that hold both posts and articles that fit the category. The categories are identified by the tabs along the top of the page. More detailed navigation is along the right side bar.

• Workshops & Events - An on going compilation of workshops and events that catch my eye or are submitted to me for inclusion.
• Articles - A collection of long articles or series of articles that are focused around a specific subject like social media.
• Inspiration - Inspirational messages, stories or media that is helpful to and supports artists spiritual growth.
• Marketing - Postings and articles with a focus on providing concepts and tools to help artists develop and market their brand.
• Mindset - This area is all about your inner journey…helping you discover your vision, voice and direction as you learn to invite abundance into your life.
• The Toolkit - This area is the place to find the necessary tools and processes to growing your business.

PAGES - are used to organize one or more series of common postings organized to provide a single location for all relevant information. For example the Workshops & events page holds listings of all such happenings until they occur and the Articles page holds featured articles that are particularly worth reading.

A word about community and you

As I mentioned above this site is designed to encourage support and community for working visual artists, so I invite and encourge your contributions. You can contribute in the following ways:

• EVENTS - send me an e-mail containing the information you would like posted, it must be related to visual art.
• ARTICLES - Send me an e- mail with your proposal, making sure to include a description of how it might fit into this site and benefit working artists.
• COMMENTS - Commenting on an existing post or article is an excellent way to create discussion and conversation around a specific subject. I encourage you to comment by clicking on the “comment”  label found just below each post.

CONTACT ME: you can send your proposals and event listings to me at : bill@billweaverphoto.com

All work contained on this site is licensed using the Creative Commons Network click the link below to read the requirements for using any of the articles posted:

The ARTISTScenter by Bill Weaver is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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