danmchugh

Great question. We have an application process for a few reasons:

1. Because curation is important to us

2. So we can learn about the artist and how best to help them

3. So we can take time to help onboard artists and show them how best to make use of Art in Res

We built Art in Res so that anyone can apply, and we take our time to consider every application.

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll definitely add it to our considerations. Just curious, were you on computer or mobile device?

We love it too. We hope to have some more ways for you to visualize the art in the near future that provide more context.

I'm happy you liked combining the filters, I'm always pleasantly surprised what I discover when I use them. Currently we process and tag all of the artworks as part of our curation.

Curation is a very important aspect of helping people find things that resonate. We have more things in our roadmap to keep improving this for people, and for artists to provide more details about their work.

We've shipped a fix for this bug now. Thanks again for letting us know about it. Hopefully you can continue browsing un-hindered!

We have shipped a fix for this now. Apologies for the frustration it caused.

I would personally love to see more video game inspired art, there are so many great styles we're yet to have applications for as we're still a relatively new site. We carefully consider all styles of art when artists apply.

If you are interested we have an artist on the site currently that is influenced by video games: https://artinres.com/artists/lee-mora

> - May be a long term thing, but I also think you should focus on expanding and growing your market size. Create blog posts, and videos on art, artists, art appreciation and advertize them. Educate audiance and get more people interested in it. That might percolate to making your business bigger.

I love all of these suggestions! We're currently working on a content strategy that will cover a lot of the topics you mentioned. I agree there's a piece of education that is needed, especially in understanding the process of artists, why things cost what they do, we plan on doing more in-depth interviews, and hopefully videos that can convey a lot more information.

Great find. I'm adding it to our bug-queue now. Thanks so much, I'm glad you like it despite our glitches!

We see a lot of great artists from the EU, and other parts of the world (I'm from Europe!) As soon as we figure out international shipping and taxes we're excited to start onboarding artists in those regions.

We'll take a look at making the link more visible, agree it's a little less prominent right now.

We're excited to move into more types of art other than paintings. We currently have a small number of sculptures on the site, and have been taking baby steps towards other types such as limited prints.

Whenever you're ready to submit an application we would love to read it!

Thanks for letting us know about this bug. We just shipped a fix for it. Hopefully you won't be interrupted while browsing now :)

Just shipped a fix for this. Sorry for the frustration in the meantime. Again, thanks so much for highlighting the bug.

Thanks for highlighting this bug. Sorry it made you panic! We're adding it to our bug-fix queue as high priority.

This is a great idea. It's definitely something we will look into. I love the idea of being able to explore more of these details in detail.

We agree, displaying art on a website is very different to seeing it in-person.

It's hard to replace seeing something in-person but we would love to bring some of that experience to our site. We are currently working on ways to display this better and give more context for the art.

Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention. I'll make sure this is added to the top of our bug-fix queue.

Were you a guest user or logged in when this happened?

We spent a considerable amount of time deciding this split, and consulted with many of our artists on what they felt was fair.

While the customer facing portion of the website appears like a more traditional marketplace, our artist facing website contains tools for artists, and we do more than just list their art, we help them get better at selling, help them promote and market their art, and we provide support wherever needed.

We are artist centric first and foremost, and always heavily consider and consult our artists point of view.