Artists.com Launches Website to Showcase Local Artists

IdeasSiero is pleased to announce the official launch of Artists.com on December 19. The owner, Marcelo Siero, expressed his excitement: “I am fulfilling a dream of mine to provide an artist friendly venue to market the work of local artists with the launch of Artists.com.” Artists.com produces and ships high quality, affordable, fine art reproductions. Visitors to the site can purchase their favorite artist’s work in a variety of formats and the sizes they need. The art is then printed on demand using a state-of-the-art giclee printer and packed and shipped to any destination in the world.

The mission of Artists.com is to use technology and creative marketing approaches to help artists gain recognition for their work. By making the most of the scope and power of the Internet, we afford artists worldwide exposure and more freedom to be creative and do what they love best. Through www.artists.com, art lovers have easy access to a wealth of artistic creativity they may not otherwise experience.

In cooperation with two other IdeasSiero businesses, Business With Pleasure (BWP) and Sign City, Artists.com will capture artwork using a high resolution digital camera. The Kodak SLR/c which captures a 14 Megapixel image in RAW mode with greate color fidelity. Alternatively, artists can bring film containing images of their work and it can be digitized using the Nikon Super Coolscan 8000 ED. Samplings of these high resolution images are then posted on the website along with presentations of the artists’ portfolios, written interviews, and photos of the artists.

The approach of Artists.com is to focus on the culture and art of various regions around the world and in an artist friendly format. The first region to be targeted is Santa Cruz County, a region known the world over for its abundance of interesting and eclectic artists. In the future, Artists.com plans to show art from countries around the world – one region at a time.

“Simultaneously with the launching of our website, we were involved with another exciting venture for Santa Cruz County artists!” stated Siero. “Councilmember Emily Reilly envisioned opening a not-for-profit gallery for local artists for quite some time.Artists.com collaborated with the Cultural Council to make her vision a reality. That project has been facilitated by the City of Santa Cruz Redevelopment Agency

For more information please contact Marcelo Siero or Janell Coburn at (831) 335-2165, or e-mail Janell at janellcoburn@artists.com. We welcome calls and e-mail from artists interested in showing their work on the site!

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