Artist Relations Newsletter - March 19, 2008

Mar 19, 200815 min read

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Published: Mar 19, 2008

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Director of Artist Relations

Hello!

The purpose of Artist Relations is to strengthen the community spirit as well as network with fellow artists so that we may bring outside opportunities to you, and help you to hone your skills. The Gallery Directors are the first people you should go to regarding your galleries. They are the people you need to make gallery suggestions to, and ask questions about your specific genre, or seek knowledge from. They also act as your lifeline to the administration. They are here to support and listen, and I can tell you we've got incredibly talented, devoted and passionate people on this team, so get to know them!

News

The AR team would like to extend our love and heartfelt gratitude to the efforts of shell4art, you should do the same

Katerina423 has taken the time to define Horror & Macabre Photography here Please take the time to read it - you may learn something new

New Gallery Directors!!  Please welcome to the team:
                        jenepooh - Community Projects
                        Baculus-Rising - Conceptual Photography
                        Nicasus - Space Art
                        LorrieWhittington - Traditional Art
                        Jules1983 - Vexel
                        just-an-artist - Body Art (Traditional Art)

SPACE ART??? That's right deviants - we have new space art galleries located in both Digital and Traditional Art. To submit to them you go to:

Drawing & Illustration -> drawing -> space art -> digital or traditional

Painting & Airbrushing -> space art -> digital or traditional

These new galleries will be moderated by Nicasus who's pretty familiar with space art

We chose to start with these basic galleries for now but certainly there is room for growth and potential for some cross-ver merging of sci-fi. Send your feedback and suggestions to Nicasus , KariAnnLax and myself.

GET SPRUNG has launched along with a slew of fun activities!! Make sure you check it out!

Help out ArsenicAddiction with the Bell Walk for Kids Help Phone Line

Did you know that deviantART had an official flash preloader?? Read about it here

Play mad libs here

BlameEmma and katt-25 will be running the London Marathon to help raise money for CLICL Sergeants Home from Home "Billy's Appeal" and I was hoping you could help us spread the word for this most wonderful cause and raise the money needed to build this most wonderful facility for children all over the UK.

StealThisCSS has recently re-opened after a period of inactivity - go check them out!

noticias just celebrated their 1st month on deviantART. If you don't know who they are, they are a team of over 20 deviants who voluntarily translate many of the news articles from staff and deviants alike, into spanish. How awesome is that? Go give them love and spanish speaking deviants... GET INVOLVED!

<insert shameless plug> mombeam's emoticon contest is going strong - check out this journal for more info

int-womens-week has all of the information and links to everything done for International Women's Week! A one stop resource

jenepooh wants you - Yes YOU read about it here

Zlatty is raising money for Multiple Sclerosis and if you want to learn more check this out!

If you're a beta tester read THIS Portfolio testing has begun!!

It shouldn't be new news to most of you that deviantART doesn't support mp3 submissions. However, it would appear that some in our community are abusing certain category allowances and have uploaded bad disguised music files into our galleries. These will be removed when they are located, so do us a favor and adhere to the rules and remove them yourself. Thank you.

Since resolving the community run "The Touch" contest, I have received several notes about people who have run contests and bailed on them without resolving them. First - let me say that deviantART is not responsible for deviant-run contests and we don't have the resources to resolve them all. However, I will give you advice on how to proceed and how to avoid these situations in the future. If you are someone who runs contests or are thinking of running one - be committed to see it to the end, if you aren't sure - don't run one and most importantly, if you need help please reach out to myself or the gallery directors because that's something we can do. We are all responsible for keeping the community happy and healthy and I expect all of you to do your part.

ItDoesNotHaveMe needs your support! Send in information pertaining to awareness days, weeks etc so we can build up our resources. Thank you

Please help out my team by sending your daily deviation suggestions to one person only. There is great confusion caused when you suggest the same piece to multiple gallery directors. We appreciate it