Submitting Work for the AAWS Website
Individual Member Artist Gallery Pages

Image guidelines  |  Info needed

Encourage your member friends to participate! We'd like all our AAWS member artists represented.

Alternative Methods

There are several alternative ways of submitting something for your own individual page. For all electronic submissions (via email, disk, or web), please be sure your images are worm- and virus-free!

• Digital image by email.  Several people have submitted work that way. You may already have digital images of your artwork, from a digital camera or from a photo disk available from wherever you get your slides or photographs processed. Or you may have a friend who can take a picture of your artwork with his or her digital camera. Or if you have a slide or photo and your own scanner, you can scan either as a JPEG file. Email the digital image (JPEG) to webmaster . The AAWS office can also put you in touch with members who do digital photography and would be willing -- for a modest fee -- to take a photo and send the image to webmaster .
  
  
• Digital image by web site.  If you have your own web site featuring your artwork, you can send email to webmaster with the location of the site and which work you want to use on your page. Please give specific directions to the specific image! The webmaster can then pick up the artwork from your site.
  
  
• Digital image by diskette.  If you have a scanner but not email, or a digital image but not email, you copy the image to a diskette and send that in to the AAWS office or arrange to mail it to webmaster . Format your diskette for a PC, please, not for a Mac.
  
  
• Slide.  Send a slide in to the AAWS office. Someone there can scan it for you and send the image on to the webmaster. This is a slow method because we may save images collected this way until we have several, and only then do we put them online. Still, if you've submitted and/or are submitting a slide for a juror'd exhibit anyway, that might be a good time to deliver something for the web gallery, too.
  
  
• Regular photograph.  You may not "do" slides. You may not even have a friend with a digital camera who could take a digital photo of your artwork and email it to the webmaster. All is not lost. Get in touch with webmaster about mailing a regular photograph. The office doesn't have that kind of scanner but the webmaster does and can scan your photo. Like slides, this is going to be a relatively slow option, and it's the option of LAST resort, please, but it's still an option!

Guidelines for Preparing Your Image

• ONE work per member.  We may start putting up more than one at some point. We'd like to do that, in fact. But for now, it's just one. We'd like to have at least one work from most members, if at all possible, before we start on multiples.
  
  
• JPEG (or GIF) format for digital images. 
  
  
• Modest file file sizes for digital images.  If you're sending a digital image, keep the file size to 50K-100K -- even less if possible. NO half-meg images! The webmaster can resize/resample, but would rather not get huge images in email.
  
  
• We're using images with a maximum dimension of 400 pixels on the longest side.
  
  So if your image is in landscape orientation (i.e., wider than it is high), the maximum width would be 400 pixels. If your image is in portrait orientation (i.e., taller than it is wide), the maximum height would be 400 pixels.

Other Information Needed

What other information do we need from you?

• Your name, yes. 
  
  
• Your membership status, yes.  And if you're a Juried Member, please mention which category (painting/drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, mixed media).
  
  
• Title of the work, yes. 
  
  
• Medium/media, optional. 
  
  
• Dimensions, optional. 
  
  
• Prices, NO.  We're not selling here. This is just a showcase for members' work -- to show what kind of work our members are doing, what kind of artists are working in our community. Note, however, the next bullet, below.
  
  
• Email and personal art website, optional.  A lot of you have email and your own personal web sites that feature your artwork. Our webmaster is happy to add that information to individual pages in the AAWS website art gallery for viewers who may want to see more of an artist's work or who may want to get in touch with the artist directly. Just let webmaster know. And to see how it's being done, take a look at, for example, Pat Spainhour's page.
  
  Note: It's up to you to let us know when/if your info changes.