If you are a gallery or an artist membership group that represents multiple artists, we offer a way to set up Collections, one for each individual artist.

Set up a Collection for Each Artist

Create a collection for each Artist:

There are multiple ways to access the Collections screen from the Site Dashboard:

• My Art (top left) 
• Collections

OR

• My Art (left menu)
  (if you don't see the full options on the left, click the 3 bar menu icon, upper left corner)
• Collections

OR

• below Content quick links (center of dashboard home screen)
• Collections

OR

• My Art
• Artworks
• Manage button
• Manage Collections

THEN

• click Create Collection
• for collection name type in the Artist's Name
• Save changes
• repeat for each artist

Assign Artwork to each artist's collection:

• Make sure artwork is uploaded. 
  For How To click here: Upload Artwork

There are a number of ways to assign the work:

1. If you upload art for one artist at a time you can select the name of the collection during the upload process, like so (collection needs to already have been set up) :

OR

2. From Artwork screen, click Manage button, select Edit all artworks
Enter as much info as possible on the editing screen being sure to assign each image to the correct artist's collection

• select an image to represent each collection:
  • go to editing screen for the Collection
  • click Update Cover Image button
  • select Image
    (this will update automatically)

*** To choose an image to represent each collection that is not in the Artwork Portfolio, like an artist's Bio Photo:

• Make sure the image is uploaded to your Images folder.
  See this FAQ: How do I upload and edit non-art images?

Once the image is in the Images folder:

• My Art (upper row or left menu)
• Collections
• Other Options (upper right)
• select Use the old collections editor

• click Edit to the right of a collection
• scroll down to CollectionPicture
• click on Change Image (or click the drop down arrow)
• select your image
• Save Changes

Add Artist Bios

To add a Bio for each artist, add it to the Collection Description.

Add Artist Category to Navigation Bar

• Setup
• Navigation Menu
• click on Custom Link in Menu Item Options (left column)
  that will pop the Custom Link into the right column
• click on the dropdown arrow to the right of the Custom Link
• for url, add /gallery-artists to the domain name that already displays in that field
• for Navigation Label, replace Link with the title you wish to use - such as Artists
• Save

Arrange the Listing of the Artists

• click Profile image or Initials (upper right corner of Site Dashboard)
• select Settings 
• click on Settings 
• scroll to Gallery Mode
• select Edit to the right of Sort Gallery Artists By

• select your preference:
  • artist_last_name (the last name field from the artist edit screen)
  • artist_first_name (the first name field from the artist edit screen)
  • collection_name (the name of the collection from the collection edit screen)
  • display_order (the order of the collections from the collections edit screen)
• click Save Setting

In order to use the artist_last_name option, the first and last name of the artist need to be added here:

• from dashboard
• Categories & Pages 
  (if you don't see the full options on the left, click the 3 bar menu icon, upper left corner)
• Artists

OR

• from dashboard
• under Content quick links (center of home screen of Site Dashboard)
• Artists

THEN

• click Edit to the right of the artist
• enter Artist First Name and Artist Last Name
• Save Changes

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