SERVICES & BENEFITS

Additional Membership benefits include, but are not limited to:

Solo and Group Exhibits: ARTworkSF installs exhibits in cafes, fine restaurants, corporate lobbies, office environments, hotels and galleries. Cafe exhibits are approximately 6 weeks, and often generate steady sales for members. Corporate and hotel exhibits run for 90 days. ARTworkSF or the venue will host receptions. ARTworkSF hangs, promotes and insures every show. All work is for sale or rent. ARTworkSF negotiates all sales, layaways or rentals.

Special Events: ARTworkSF produces special exhibits and benefits for non-profit and for-profit clients.

Hanging & Installation: ARTworkSF curator and staff hang all exhibits. This service is free to members. The director is also available to curate and install exhibits that are not sponsored by ARTworkSF.

Art Rentals: Clients select art from slides. Artist or ARTworkSF delivers the work(s) directly to the site. This procedure eliminates unnecessary handling of your work by the public and reduces wear and tear to your frames. ARTworkSF installs all artwork.

Portrait Commissions: Representing portrait painters, photographers, sculptors, and digital artists working in every style and price range, ARTworkSF negotiates the contract and monitors the payment process during each phase to ensure the success of the project and payment to artist.

Commercial Art & Design Commissions: ARTworkSF negotiates small and large contracts for illustrations, murals, architectural finishes, mosaics, sculpture, commercial photography, graphic design, and web site construction.

Website: artworksf.com promotes all of our services, exhibits and events. Each artist has 1 page of information and images or is linked to your site.

Promotion: ARTworkSF writes and distributes press releases to appropriate newspapers and internet sites for all exhibits. We mail invitations to our current clients, potential collectors, selected galleries and art consultants. Each artist is provided invitations for their own mailing list.

Consulting & Referrals: An ARTworkSF representative is available free of charge to members to review contracts, make referrals to legal and financial services specializing in artist's problems. We are a source for artist's advocacy and education groups, exhibition spaces, and seminars, and businesses offering discounts to members for fine art insurance, photography, slide dupes and printing, custom framing, graphic and website design, typing, editing, and resume services.

ARTworkSF MEDIA EXPOSURE

Television & Radio: Our video archives include interviews and exhibit documentation which have been broadcast on KRON Channel 4 News and Weekend Update, Bay TV, Channel 35, Inside City Limits, Public Access, City Beat.

Newspapers & Magazines: Articles about ARTworkSF exhibits and services have been published in many local papers including: The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, SF Arts Monthly, Oakland Tribune, Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, SF Observer (Western Edition/Castro Star), Metropolitan (SF Live), Bay Area Reporter, Oblivion, Frontiers Magazine, Bay Times

Internet: Our website, artworksf.com, is currently under construction. In addition to information about our services, we will develop and maintain 1 page for each member's work. Our exhibits regularly appear on the following news and entertainment sites: sfstation.com, sfsidewalk.com, citysearch7.com, craigslist.org, artistresource.org, and sfvisitor.org

Clients we have served (partial list)

Since 1992, ARTworkSF has curated exhibits in lobbies and leased artwork in office environments, rented artwork for movies, and produced events for: Industrial Light & Magic, Hotel Rex, McKesson Corporation, The Bridge Gallery, The Fairmont Hotel, Click 3 X, Inc., San Francisco Production Group, Bechtel, Inc., Lieberman Productions, CalStart, Inc., ACET (Alameda Center for Environmental Technology), San Francisco Public Library, Borders Books, Columbia Pictures, Laney College Gallery, Acme Scenery, Clarion Bedford Hotel, Miramax Pictures, Marathon Plaza, Inc., SOMARTS Gallery, Bayshore Film & Stage Studio, National Poetry Association, Embarcadero Center, Melting Point Gallery, Gallery O'Boy, Laservue Eye Center, Acura of Pleasanton, and dozens of Cafes & Fine Restaurants