A New Digital Community
Here we are. The ARTBANK Bunclody Blog!!
It doesn't seem anytime ago that ARTBANK Bunclody became a reality and took up store in the former AIB Bank building on Bunclody's Main Street. That was barely 10 months ago: a brand new enterprise and a whole new start.
Roll forward to this week and the release and onward development of our new website. We've moved to a new service provider with whom we aim to partner toward a better digital experience for us and our community.
We are already very active on the ARTBANK Facebook page and can only hope to encourage you to join in the fun in supporting us there. We'd love nothing better than for you to share your creative activity with us, or add any World smarts, or "how to's" that might encourage our creative community to...well, create!
Website
The website is run and funded by our volunteers and aims to keep our creative community informed and where possible, entertained. There' are online galleries in which we can display a selection of the wonderful artworks we curate at ARTBANK Bunclody, and an area each for forthcoming Events and Exhibitions. It's not a bad start. But there's more to come!
We're planning to offer our artists an opportunity to show their work that is not already on display in ARTBANK Bunclody on their own exhibition page. We're also offering to have designed and published professionally printed flyers to help promote your work. We're even exploring being able sell your work from our online store with a potential customer base reaching right across our Globe!
There's still work to be done such as transferring our main domain www.artbank.ie to our new website, which currently resides at artbank.bunclody.eu, and some 'staff training' between our volunteers on the website's upkeep. (Shudder
e-Newsletter
In the shorter term we are soon able to offer an e-Newsletter to our subscribers: not one of those literary tombs, but a short description of what's on at the ARTBANK Bunclody and links to articles on our website.
When you subscribe to the e-Newsletter you won't be bombarded with Spam, but we'll only keep you informed periodically about forthcoming exhibitions, events, presentations, performances, etc.
Feedback
The crux is this: as with the ARTBANK Bunclody, the website is only as good as your support and your feedback. Please don't be shy in helping us to understand what you need from the website and to offer your advice on how you think we might achieve this for you.
We look forward to your feedback and support in our new digital venture and we hope you will be a strong part of it.
What do YOU want to do?
So, what articles would YOU like to see in the ARTBANK Bunclody Blog, or what workshop would you like to attend? Email us now at artbankbunclody@gmail.com and tell us!!
