---
title: Getting verified
description: "What the verified seal means on Artsume, how you earn it through a confirmed CV line, how organizations verify automatically, and why it isn't sold."
date: 2026-07-20
updated: 2026-08-25
author: Artsume Team
tags:
  - getting-started
  - verification
url: "https://www.artsume.com/docs/verification"
type: docs
---

# Getting verified

# Getting verified

The verified seal on Artsume is earned, never purchased. It exists so a
curator reviewing applications, or an artist deciding where to apply, can
trust what they're seeing.

## For your profile

Your seal means at least one organization has confirmed a line on your CV.
When a gallery confirms your exhibition or a residency confirms your stay,
that confirmation is recorded against the exact line, and the blue seal
appears next to your name.

The seal belongs to you, not to a side of your account. If you are a curator
or an educator with no portfolio, a confirmed line earns you the same seal.
See [Artists and arts professionals](/docs/artists-and-professionals).

How to earn it:

1. Add a CV line and link the organization to it. The organization has to be
   on Artsume, and you pick it from the search in the line's venue or
   institution field. See [Creating your CV](/docs/creating-cv).
2. Select **Verify** on that line to ask them to confirm it. The control
   then reads **Requested**, with **Withdraw** beside it if you change your
   mind. While your profile is unverified, a **Get verified** chip sits next
   to your name and opens the same explanation.
3. When they confirm, the line carries a check mark on your public CV, and
   your profile shows the seal.

Asking is free for everyone, and an organization can also confirm a line
without being asked.

![Two seals: Verified, earned when an organization confirms a line on your CV, and Featured, chosen by Artsume.](https://www.artsume.com/images/docs/demos/verified-seal.png)

Verified and Featured wear the same blue mark. Featured means Artsume has
picked the profile editorially, which is a separate thing and unrelated to
verification. Point at a seal to read which one it is.

The seal can switch off again. If you edit a confirmed line, the
confirmation no longer matches what the line says, so the seal rests until
the organization confirms it again. Artsume warns you before you edit. If an
organization disputes a line, the seal stays off while the dispute stands,
and saving your edit to that line clears the dispute.

**The seal cannot be bought.** [Artsume Pro](/docs/artsume-pro) never grants
it. Pro adds insights and reach.

## For organizations

Your organization is verified automatically when an owner or admin on your
team holds a confirmed email address at your organization's own website
domain. If your website is `example-arts.org` and an admin's confirmed
address is `director@example-arts.org`, the seal appears on its own, with
nothing to submit. Artsume rechecks this whenever the website, the team, or
an address changes, so the seal follows the facts rather than a one-time
sign-in.

Your website may sit on a subdomain of the email domain: a site at
`gallery.example-arts.org` matches `director@example-arts.org`. The reverse
does not. An address at `director@mail.example-arts.org` does not verify a
site at `example-arts.org`.

Free email providers never match, whatever your website says. Gmail, Yahoo,
Outlook, iCloud, Proton, and the rest are all excluded, because anyone can
open one. Addresses that start with a generic first label, `mail` among
them, are excluded for the same reason. If your team works from a shared inbox or a personal account,
contact Artsume and the team verifies your organization by hand.

The seal tells artists your organization is who it says it is. It's free for
every organization and isn't connected to any plan. See
[Setting up your organization](/docs/setting-up-organization) for the rest of
your organization's public page.