Traditional art galleries do a good job in acting as a type of quality control of artwork and artists. How does Support Local Art handle this issue?
Quality of artwork and professionalism of artists is certainly a concern. Many online art web sites, and of course home-built galleries, don’t worry about quality control and will allow anybody to display literally anything as art. To ensure consistent high quality, Support Local Art is a peer-juried website. This means that any potential new artist is juried by the existing online artists. Artists who have already ‘made the cut’, are not interested in having others who cannot conduct themselves in a professional manner (either in their artwork, presentation, communication, or business practices) being promoted along side them. This voting system also eliminates individual artist’s ‘personal style preferences’, and also the politics which can often rear it’s ugly head in the traditional gallery circles.
