Dear Members of the Visionary Art Network,
Fall has arrived and actually it is Halloween pretty soon. While i had in mind initially to send a broadcast once a month, again it has been over 2 months since the last one! In the meantime, we had added a few more artists to our network.
But to start with I want to introduce the Artists of the Month for September and October.
September 2013
ZELJKO DJUROVICS
ZELJKO DJUROVICS
October 2013
ALEXANDRA MANUKYAN
ALEXANDRA MANUKYAN
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Since our previous broadcast many more great artists joined our network. Please welcome NEW MEMBERS:
(Note: links are to their profile pages within the network, so you need to be logged in)
Christian Lepère - Arif Bahtiar - Katerine Aubry - Manfred Evertz -
Jürgen Pleikies - Katia Honour - ARINA - Nipon Jungkina - Tuco Amalfi -
Daniele Valeriani - Hans Bauer -
Jim Pavelec - Michael Fishel - El Gato Chimney - Alireza Dayani
Several of our mutual Artist friends are also on my wish-list to add to our community, and I am waiting for their responses. We (that is: our Administrators) are very selective about who joins us, so this site will always be very exclusive to only the best. No apologies here - there are plenty of 'public' sites for others to join.
Important: you need to have a sufficient number of pictures uploaded to be featured in our PUBLIC ON-LINE VISIONARY ART GALLERY - you may want to re-read the New Members Info Note for details.
There are now over 11,336 Images on file!
Groups:
Several more members have joined our group, and you are cordially invited to also join:
VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION
Background Info: We purchased the domain for the Visionary Art Exhibition - a first step in the promised development of on-line exhibitions of select artists from our network. JOIN THIS GROUP and read more about future projects. Projects will be announced to the group members as they become reality. Our ultimate aim is to also be able to organize 'brick-and-mortar' exhibitions in future.
About the VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION website: although actual on-line exhibitions are a few months away (this is being worked on over the summer), our blog features of individual artists show some incredible numbers (for a new website): for example, on June 23rd we had 983 visitors, our highest so far! Since then, we consistently showed respectable numbers whenever new works were featured. Of course this doesn't happen by itself: it happens because the pages are shared by many of our members and myself on social networks.
UPDATE:
So far, I did not get around to putting a exhibition together (having so many projects on the back burner right now) but I am constantly featuring individual artists. I am proud to say that we have a very good ranking on Alexa for this relatively new site already, but this is just the beginning. Of course our Visionary Art Gallery ranking is also rising steadily and at that level in the best of company of comparable sites.
Reach out and touch someone - make friends, discover new connections! Browse the site and discover new work.
A good way also is to check out the slideshows of Favorites and Featured Art embedded in our Visionary Art Gallery.
Tip: if you are browsing the public gallery, you can click right through to the individual pictures (log-in window will appear if you are not logged in to the network) - make friends with the artists, leave a note, promote it.
However, I need to repeat again: you can only share pages from our public Visionary Art Gallery Site (there are share buttons on every page). You cannot share anything from inside the private network. This is explained HERE.
Please participate, upload your new work, write blogs, invite members to your events etc. Take advantage of the many features of our network. Remember: once you upload a sufficient number of artwork to our network, I will add a page for you in our public art gallery, as well as publicise that page through my usual channels. Many of our new members have already submitted their work and are now represented in our public gallery.
YOU WILL FIND MANY VALUABLE RESOURCES UNDER THE NAVIGATION TABS ON OUR NETWORK HOME PAGE, AND MANY MORE ARE ALSO FOUND ON THE PAGES OF OUR PUBLIC VISIONARY ART GALLERY.
Network and Website Expenses:
I like to thank you for your donations which make it possible for me to carry the expenses associated with our network and public site. I have already paid the public gallery network expenses, which were due at the beginning of June. The Ning Network bill was due and had been deducted from my account already - we are now paid up until next Summer!
In the past, the donations of a number of very supportive members made it possible to exist, and I want to particularly thank those members again. Without you, this network would not be able to carry on!
Customizing Pages:
Customizing your homepage on the network has been enabled since day one. Some members made good use of it and came up with some pretty nice pages. Others, well, not so successful. It is a bit tricky to figure out, so unless you are proficient in this sort of thing, I suggest to just stay with the default design. Should you be unhappy with the look, then there is a reset button when you go to your page settings. Unfortunately I cannot do this for individual pages (I can only remove the customizing option, which would reset everyone!). There are a couple of pages on here that are unreadable - I would suggest to those members to either fix this or reset their page to default.
Here is all you need to know about "Managing my Page Settings"
On Facebook, we have a often visited page: VISIONARY ART
LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS
Otto
PS: I am duplicating this broadcast as a Network Note. It appears that some members are not receiving the broadcasts.
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For your information:
The VISIONARY ART GALLERY and it's affiliated sites VISIONARY ART HALL OF FAME and VISIONARY ART EMPORIUM, as well as our newest site, the VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION are all built on the Weebly platform - maybe it could be useful to you also, should you be looking for a platform to build your website on (a basic account is FREE and like the Pro account our sites are on, has unlimited space!)
The VISIONARY ART GALLERY and it's affiliated sites VISIONARY ART HALL OF FAME and VISIONARY ART EMPORIUM, as well as our newest site, the VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION are all built on the Weebly platform - maybe it could be useful to you also, should you be looking for a platform to build your website on (a basic account is FREE and like the Pro account our sites are on, has unlimited space!)
