Your Digital Portfolio: Creating and Maintaining an Artist Website with Shan Bryan-Hanson

Concept and Experience

Having an up-to-date website is important to your career as an artist. In this workshop, learn why it's useful (and easier than you might think) to build, curate, and update your own website. Shan explains how she views and utilizes artists' websites as a curator, including how a website serves a different role than an artist's social media. She shares how she maintains her own artist website, her favorite tools and hosting platforms, and guides you in drafting a plan for creating, or improving, your own website. In addition, learn how to optimize images for the web and review how to save and use different images file sizes and formats (pdfs, jpegs, png, tiff). Bring your computer and a notebook or sketchbook.

Instructor

Shan Bryan-Hanson is an artist, curator, and educator. She received her MFA from the University of Montana and spent nearly two decades in academia, as a professor and curator. She now divides her time between making art, curatorial projects, and teaching workshops. Shan's work is made with a unique process, developed by the artist, that combines painting with intricate drawing and embroidery to create works of art layered with imagery, material, and medium. She lives in Sturgeon, Bay, WI.