Just hook into the database and find one at your location. Number 9 also has sponsored live art and salons in local galleries, and has put transcripts of the talks presented at these events on his site along with calendars for local gallery showings. Elva Davis, the one with all those acrylics in her Boulder studio, thinks so. Newly signed up with Number 9, she likes that they advertise the whole site, so by default, her portfolio is seen by gallery owners and potential buyers who wouldn't normally see her work that she displays on Boulder Community Network, for example. She has gotten some inquiries and is confident that her work will sell through the Web.
Photographers do phenomenally well.
They're reaching a different, new audience this way. Quigley's artists also have gotten calls from their links. As I add more, ASN will get better. I'm getting connections in major cities, and I have a possible deal with a bookstore in town. I want to orient it toward the person who's learning rather than a system, to follow a person's interest instead of what an organization thinks you should know.