When we made the decision to move from Charleston, really the only difficult part of that decision was leaving Hagan Fine Art and its owner, Karen Hewitt Hagan. I spent close to ten years working with Karen in helping her grow her gallery business, her artist roster, and selling millions of dollars worth of wonderful art. It was a proud period of my life.

At the beginning of August, some news came out. After fourteen years, Karen sold her gallery. WHOA! 

And, so... with every chapter that ends, a new one begins. I'm so happy Karen will be focusing on painting more and sharing her knowledge through workshops. I'm also thrilled to now include her as an independent artist and Legacy Art Mgt. client. I just finished building her an artist website on Artcloud. Check it out:

www.KarenHewittHagan.com

Welcome Karen! Thank you for choosing Legacy Art Management to help you grow your online presence for your art!

My career as an archivist has introduced me to so many different database system. I've enjoyed learning different systems, and even have been a beta tester for a couple. As an archivist, the #1 Rule I can give any artist is this:

A spreadsheet is not an inventory management system!

As technology has grown, so have the options on keeping yourself organized. It can be very overwhelming for anyone to choose a way to manage your artwork - both the physical and the digital records of said artwork... especially if you're not technically savvy.  

During the first couple of years at Hagan Fine Art, Karen and I had a heck of time trying to decide on what was the best system for us. We finally found it in a small Atlanta-based company called Artcloud.

Since the gallery signed up with them in 2016, I have been a self-proclaimed cheerleader for this company. I loved the system so much, I immediately started using them for my own website and management system. 
(Disclaimer: I am not being paid by Artcloud to say any of this.) 

Over the years, I've watched the system grow exponentially, with a lot of growth and improvement specially from learning what their users want. A company that listens to its clients and gives them what they want is a company that will always be successful, because they are helping their clients be successful.

So, as an artist, why would you choose Artcloud over one of the others?

Without breaking it all down, I'll just give you my top three reasons I recommend Artcloud over all others:

• Combining your inventory management with your website. One place to record and display your work.
  
• But that's not all! You also get organization for your gallery relations, Client CRM, marketing campaigns, invoicing, and online selling... to name a few, but not all. It's a robust system.
  
• Finally, the people. The Artcloud team are some of the hardest working, kindest, most hospitable people I've ever worked with. Not only that, but their support team is top notch AND they are always ALWAYS improving the system. They want to hear form their clients on what they can do to make your user experience better.

I could go on... truly. But, if you're serious about your art career, I recommend you check them out, yourself. And, if you need help organizing your digital inventory and/or building out your website, give me a holler. I love using their system and would love to help you get started using them, too.