MyArtPlot (MAP) is a global community and movement of artists, artisans, enthusiasts, and buyers, fighting to create a united, supportive, and non-elitist arts and crafts world. Social, professional, and commercial tools thrive here. No more isolation and starvation.

The Identity

The art world does not exist. Together, let us create one.

MyArtPlot.com (MAP) is a global arts and crafts community and movement. Fighting elitism, it is an empowerment platform that offers functional tools to re-design the industry's archaic social, professional, and commercial dynamics. On MAP, any one participant is a crucial element of the global movement.

We are here because, as artists, artisans, and crafters, we've suffered for far too long the crushing blow of global isolation caused by technology deficiency. Being trapped in our respective localities, we are plagued by the elitist elements that prevent the global cohesiveness of our industry while severing the limited bonds within our isolated communities. These days, the focus deviates from the raw passion and genius of creation and rests too much upon simply knowing the right people. Elitism in social capital and other forms of resources has created an uneven playing field amongst us, causing inefficiencies in most of us to inspire, to produce, to connect, and to sell. MAP is our profession's singular honest attempt to combat the failures of our industry while actively incorporating the important partcipation of buyers. Together, we dare to fight against elitism and the absence of a globally centralized support and connectivity source. We boldly imagine a world in which we are no longer disconnected, low-resourced, and financially unstable. In our world, there exists a free flow of affordable original arts and crafts to all public and private spaces.

The Function

By providing functional social, professional and commercial tools, MAP allows disconnected artists, crafters, artisans and buyers worldwide to connect socially while interacting professionally and commercially. On MAP, you can showcase, critique, rate, review, favorite, buy, and sell original arts and crafts while interacting with people from around the world and across all experience levels.

The Mission

MAP attempts to solve a problem that has plagued artists and art buyers worldwide since the emergence of the artisan profession some millennia ago. The problem states that social, professional, and commercial interactions between artists, artisans, crafters and buyers are inefficient, caused by technology deficiency, with all parties suffering from (1) information asymmetry, lacking equal distribution of information about each other, and (2) isolation, having no easy centralized channel to connect and interact globally. Therefore, those who create original arts and crafts are notoriously known for earning substandard incomes simply because they, as independent operators, lack easy access to a global concentration of each other and of buyers. Similarly, buyers, lacking the same access to those who create goods, have trouble accessing original arts and crafts, which are thus only available to those who are well connected to the artistic communities and who can afford the high prices, driven up by the inability to sell in large quantities. This situation of inaccessibility from all sides and high prices results in a majority of the arts and crafts professions earning low incomes while original arts and crafts buyers become an extremely elitist group which excludes perhaps a majority potential buyers who, lacking social and financial resources, resolve to buying reprints. Facing this problem, MAP offers itself as a solution.