Dear Art for Progress Member,

We are excited to announce that we are in the process of creating a new, advanced website for our members. Our current website was created in 2005. As you know, through the years there have been huge advancements in technology for websites. We have updated the site periodically with various improvements, but we decided recently to develop a totally new website. The new website will still have the great functionality, but the new site will be an interactive blog with many advanced functions.

We are planning to launch our new designed web site including an interactive blog section in a few weeks’ time! This process began quite a while ago. Unfortunately, we experienced many challenges along the way, but we are very close now, and we hope that you will be as excited as we are to experience the new site!

We are also updating the artist page section. For visual artists, the process for uploading your work will be the same. For music and video, you will now be able to embed your music via Soundcloud, Mixcloud and other similar sites. In the video section, you will be able to embed links via YouTube or Vimeo.

In your personal blog section, you will be able to post your work, daily activities, anything related to your artistic passions, or even something that you feel is worth sharing. As an active AFP member you will also have the ability to easily connect with other AFP members. Some other features include; the three most read blogs, as well as the top five commented blogs. Also, posting to your favorite social media platform will be as easy as counting one to three. Every day, month we will be featuring artists and bloggers in various art genres.

If you’re interested in blogging, let us know. We are planning to have a large rotation of regular bloggers on the site in various genres.

In addition, we are budgeting for a long term marketing plan for the new site.

Most importantly, we’ll need your help to get the site rocking! The more we share, post and interact with each other, the more traffic we’ll draw to the site.

Please let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with getting your work updated etc. Contact us at admin@artforprogress.org.