Artists and arts professionals
One Artsume account holds an artist side, an arts-professional side, or both. What each one adds to your profile, and how to turn one on.
You get one account, one page, and one handle. What sits on that page depends on what you tell Artsume you do. Make work and you get a portfolio. Curate, teach, advise, or write and you get your roles. Do both and you get both, on the same page, with nothing duplicated.
What everyone gets
Most of Artsume belongs to you as a person, whatever you do:
- Your name, handle, photo, and one-line intro
- Your location and your contact links
- Your CV, including the import that reads a PDF or Word file
- Your short bio
- Messages, your network, your applications, and your Favorites
- Artsume Pro, which you buy once as a person
Your CV is the clearest case. It is person-level, so a gallerist and a painter build it the same way, and a confirmed line earns either of them the verified seal.
What the artist side adds
Turning on Artist adds the parts of the page that only make sense when you make work:
- The Portfolio tab, and the projects on it
- Your artist statement on the About tab
- Disciplines, picked in What you do, which then print as Mediums in your details
- A cover photo across the top of your page
- Born in your details, and the birth year and birthplace fields on your CV bio
- Featured work and Recent CV sections on About
- Export works, which downloads projects as a ZIP with a printable manifest
Pro adds three more things on this side: weekly best-fit programs, a fit score on every open program, and which of your works people open most.
What the arts-professional side adds
Picking one or more professional roles adds a Roles row to your details, listing what you do in plain words. It also reshapes your CV: your positions lead, and the Professional Experience section is renamed Positions, because that is what the work is called on this side.
Insights is yours as a person, whichever side you hold or if you hold neither: your page gets viewed, and the analytics page shows who is finding you. See Insights.
Telling Artsume what you do
One control decides all of it. It is headed What you do, and it says: Pick everything that fits. These show on your profile.
What you do
Pick everything that fits. These show on your profile.
Artist
I make work
Select up to 5.
Select from the list or type a custom discipline and press Enter to add it
Arts professional
I work in the arts
On your public page: Ceramics · Curator
It holds two switches, and you can turn on either or both:
- Artist, I make work
- Arts professional, I work in the arts
Each switch opens a list of its own, right below it. Artist opens Disciplines, which holds 79 disciplines in nine groups, from Painting to Social Practice. Pick up to 5. If yours is missing, type it and press Enter to add it. Lead with your main practice, because the first one is what prints under your name.
Arts professional opens Roles, grouped by where the work happens:
| Group | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Institutional & Museum | Curator, Museum Director, Registrar, Conservator, Archivist, and more |
| Commercial & Market | Gallerist / Art Dealer, Art Advisor / Consultant, Auction Specialist, Appraiser, and more |
| Academic & Educational | Art Historian, Professor / Lecturer, Art Teacher, Researcher |
| Media & Editorial | Art Critic, Art Journalist, Editor, Catalog Essayist |
| Production & Public Projects | Public Art Project Manager, Studio Manager, Art Fair Director, Residency Director, Exhibition Designer |
| More | Art Therapist, Grant Writer, Collector, Scout, Other |
Pick as many roles as fit. There is no limit, and picking Other opens a short private box so Artsume knows what you meant. Other never prints on your page.
One preview sits under the whole control, and it reads both lists. Turn a switch off and its list is hidden, and that side drops out of the line.
You'll find this control in two places, and they behave the same:
- Settings → Roles, which has its own Save
- The Edit profile dialog on your profile, where it saves with the rest of the dialog
Turning a side on or off
Turning on Artist turns the artist side on the moment you save. There is no second wizard and nothing to set up: the Portfolio tab appears, and you start adding projects. See Building your portfolio.
Turning Artist off hides that side instead of deleting it. Your portfolio, your cover photo, and your artist details come off your public page. Your CV stays. Everything stays in your workspace, and turning Artist back on brings it all back exactly as it was. Artsume shows you this warning before you save.
On the other side, turn on Arts professional, pick your roles, save, and the Roles row appears.
Turning Arts professional off works differently from Artist: it clears your roles when you save. Artsume warns you first, and switching it back on before you save brings your picks straight back. To bring the side back later, pick your roles again.
If you have one side and not the other, Artsume offers you the second one on your profile. An artist sees Do you also curate, advise, or teach? with an Add your roles button. An arts professional sees Do you also make work? with a Turn on Artist button. Both open the same control.
The line under your name
Your picks print as one short line under your name, on your profile and on every card that carries you around Artsume.
The line takes one item from each side when both speak. A sculptor who also teaches reads Sculpture · Art Teacher. If only one side speaks, it takes up to two from that side, so a painter with two disciplines reads Painting · Printmaking. A long line shortens rather than running past the edge of a card. Pick nothing and the line does not print at all.
That is why the control shows you a live preview, headed On your public page, as you choose. What you see there is the line your profile will print.
Two sides, one line
The line shows one discipline and one role when you hold both. To lead with a particular discipline or role, put it first in its list.
Frequently Asked Questions
Next steps
- Creating your profile: the fields behind your page
- Creating your CV: the part both sides share
- Settings: where Roles, notifications, and billing live
- Sharing your profile: QR codes, wallet cards, and business cards