Criteria

To best maintain a consistent gallery level look for the art collectors who visit Art Space 2000.com Specialized Art Section, we have established the following standards for everyone's benefit:

1.

Professional artists only. Please - no hobbyists or part time "crafters". By "professional" we mean that you earn a portion of your income from your original art.

2.

All work must be originally designed and created by you;
3.

The quality of your work should be recognized as having achieved a degree of excellence - in other words, your work is advanced enough that you are consistently accepted into any of the following venues: the better galleries; juried art & craft shows and/or exhibitions; shops for collectibles; online fine art oriented websites.

4.

Art Space 2000.com is exclusively for art studios, NOT commercial enterprises mass producing products by hired employees.

5.

In keeping with the gallery atmosphere, your website should reflect the quality of your work, with:

*An attractive layout;
*Sharp and reasonably quick loading graphics;
*Your site must be ready to view - we do not list sites
"Under Construction".

6.

All the work on your site must be created by your studio - we do not present any commercially purchased buy/sell art / craft work, or imported items; also no purchased pattern designs, molds, kits, dried flowers, etc;

7.

To be candid, we do not seek submissions from "Country Handicraft" type work. However, Art Space 2000.com is proud to welcome those truly exceptional traditional, folk, outsider, and primitive artists who wish to join;

8.

And finally, you are willing to add the Art Space 2000.com return link logo somewhere on your own website:

or

This will associate you with an acclaimed online fine arts gallery, which will further enhance your studio's image, and will help establish the all-important professional credibility for the visitors who enter your site.

We realize that some people cannot post a logo on their site, or do not want logos on their site there for we do not enforce this.