The ARTSOPOLIS Story
The Best Community Engagement Platform
for Arts, Culture, and Tourism.
Mission & Goals
Our Mission
To connect communities through innovative technology, collaborative action, and compelling promotion.
Goal #1: Support innovation through sharing ideas, and the resulting technology.
When your organization becomes a Network Member, it means more than just joining a roster of clients. Our Network Members share the accrued intellectual property of over 20 years and over 60 communities. Those innovative ideas are what shape our modules, and the overall evolution of ARTSOPOLIS.
Once one of our Network Members tries something new and bold, it becomes available for use to our other Network Members, and can often be offered at a much lower cost than developing it from scratch. In the non-profit and government worlds, where resources are often tight but ideas are big, this practice helps everyone reach more ambitious goals to serve their communities.
This is also the reason that if an organization wishes to have exclusive rights over our platform in their city or area, we charge more, because the intention of our work is to share it. Those additional resources go back into the Network's development and maintenance efforts.
Goal #2: Serve communities, large and small.
People need to promote arts, culture and tourism in their communities everywhere. We didn't want to limit ourselves to serving only those in large centers, because the work being done in smaller centers is just as impactful to quality of life for those communities. Consequently, the organizations and governments that we work with to provide those essential services to their communities have a wide range of staff size and budgets. When we quote site building costs for a community of 4000 people, we have found their needs are not the same as those from a place with 1,000,000 residents, and we price our services for them accordingly.
Goal #3: Security in Numbers.
Cyber security is a real threat, and requires constant effort and attention by all web developers, especially those developing specialized solutions, like ARTSOPOLIS. For an individual developer this ceaseless battle is often impossible to stay ahead of, and working with third party, unvetted plugins can leave sites vulnerable. Our Network Member's pooled resources allow us to have a team of developers that are constantly monitoring and updating our platform.
Great Things Take Time to Build
ARTSOPOLIS is Born
In 2001, ARTSOPOLIS, made up of a group of arts loving tech nerds, release their first calendar prototype for their community in the Bay Area.
ARTSOPOLIS joins the Silicon Valley Arts Council
In 2003, Artsopolis.com officially launched as a program of Arts Council Silicon Valley, serving the south Bay Area region.
ARTSOPOLIS discovers a nation-wide need
In 2004, Artsopolis began its first network license agreement with a partnering community. It soon became clear that there are arts and culture organizations all over the US and Canada that need help with digital promotion, and ARTSOPOLIS is determined to find a way to help.
The ARTSOPOLIS Network flourishes
By 2015, the number of communities working together to improve the ARTSOPOLIS platform had reached 50 communities across the United States. The cooperative efforts of the Network Members resulted in digital reach and power that none of the Members could have achieved on their own.
ARTSOPOLIS steps out on its own
In 2017, The team at ARTSOPOLIS and the Arts Council Silicon Valley decided to make an amicable split so ARTSOPOLIS could continue to expand. They packed up and moved to Seattle, where we now run our digital platform for our ever strengthening Network.
Meet our Network Members
We are proud to be a part of the work enriching and showcasing the cultural fabric of communities all over North America.