Director of Artist Relations
& Assistant Director of Artist Relations 
The purpose of Artist Relations is to strengthen the community spirit as well as network with fellow artists so that we may bring outside opportunities to you, and help you to hone your skills. Contact the Gallery Director that best represents your art style and tell them your ideas. Need support for a contest? Advice on your artwork? Tips for how to get involved? Perhaps you have feedback for the administration. Artist Relations is your one stop shop for all of your Artistic needs. Gallery Directors are constantly giving your feedback and suggestions to us in an effort to make deviantART best represent the needs and wants of the community.
News

It's been a while so this update is long. However, it would be anything but right if we didn't start by recognizing `
equivoque and `
feawen for their dedication to art and the community and you're encouraged to send them a lot of

and convey your gratitude.


First of all, we believe in categories. We like tags, we want tags, we're building tags for deviantART but we will maintain a category structure and category browsing. By forcing artists upon submission to choose categories, we're effectively forcing tagging of a certain type. To maintain these categories, we will need the help of the broader community. So we're building tools to allow deviants to help us move miscats, with measures in place to prevent abuse! In the meantime, categories will get a bit untidy.
What can you do to help?
You should continue to report miscats. When reporting, think clearly about what category a work of art really belongs to. Reports that tell us that "an art work does NOT belong here" are NOT helpful. What we need are reports that tell us where an image DOES belong.
We are currently running statistics to determine how accurately the community is reporting suggestions for what category an image *should be* in. And are considering the implementation of triggers based on community feedback that would auto-move images to the suggested categories, produce a ticket informing the artist and the group of people who participated in the move.
This way, we empower the *community* to manage the community.
We will report the results as we receive them, stay tuned!
We're going to Anime Expo!
Need your help! - if you can lend a hand

The
Collection Collective is booming out of the gate and I thank everyone who's giving their support and jumping into the challenge! Features will begin soon


Please use the report violation buttons to report policy and copyright violations. There has been a steady increase in my notes from people reporting issues that should be going to the CEA team. It's not that I don't want to help you but I actually don't get to it faster and we need a written log of the actions we take so it really takes longer if you come to myself or $
FallenRox first. Please use the system the way it was intended

Thank you!

We're exterminating the final bugs in the message center for V6 and we're so close it's painful. It's hard for me to be playing in the new message center and sleek and not be able to taunt you about.. oh.. I just did! It will all be yours soon, we'll keep you updated! In the meantime, read
this journal to learn how it will all roll out.

Spammers are getting a beat down! Read about it
here Artist Relations Sponsored Contests
Anime Expo Poster Contest - Deadline June 27, 2008
"Find Your Seats" Manga Contest - Deadline June 30, 2008
The Forbidden Gaze Contest - Deadline July 1, 2008
Colors of Your Country Contest - Deadline July 4, 2008
Tattoo-A-Wonder-Woman Contest - Deadline July 13, 2008
Vexelicious - "See-Feel-Taste" - Deadline July 13, 2008
Character Sheet Contest - Deadline July 18, 2008
Fancraftic 2 - Deadline August 6, 2008
The Solidarity Contest - Deadline October 17, 2008
Under the Big Top

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Pass the Panel - Ongoing
Important and entertaining links you should go to
Weekly Help Desk Updates - June 7th, 2008
CEA Update 040608: Protection & Safety Tips
CEA Update: Defining pornography in Literature
Prints Profits - A Reminder
Creative Design Battle Winner
Steal This CSS needs YOU!
MN@ Newsletter
Firefox Extensions
Welcome to Comics & Cartoons Week!
Minimalism Contest
Contests Around dA!
Help Select the Official Fella Pose!
Weekly Help Desk Updates - June 12th
The Third Dimension: Volume 12
Artisan Crafts interview with $ewm
Onomatopoeia Contest
Twenty under Forty - vol 8
Resourcefully Yours // Artisan Crafts
deviantART Staff Interview: $chix0r
An Audience with Stuart Immonen - Featured Chat
June Awareness Months, Weeks, Days
Important Prints Account Update
Texas devMeet
Scriptwriting Month - One Act Play Contest
One decent Comment a Day
2009 APN Calendar
Artisan Crafts Gallery's Silent Auction & Contest to Benefit "The Weekend to End Breast Cancer"
Hollywood animation helping QLD kids walk
MyToons Launches Animation Contest
The character lab part 2
Video Art comes live III: =Uomo-nella-Pioggia
Watership down 30th Anniversary
new Animation Studio
Bi-weekly Film reviewSome thumbs of favorites Roxy and I have added recently:

News from the Galleries
Anime/Manga
Anthro
Artisan Crafts - ^
Myana
Comics & CartoonsCustomization
Emoticons
Handhelds
Digital Art - ^
cosmosue
Digital Art - ^
JunkbyJen
3-Dimensional - ^
Bloodredsangre
Fractal Art
Photomanipulation
Vexel
Fan Art
Film - ^
Kaotika
Film - Animation - ^
guruubii
Flash
Literature
Photography - ^
Staged
Photography - ^
rhapsouldize
Animals, Plants & Nature
Artistic Nude
Fetish
Horror & Macabre
Macro
Photojournalism
Resources - ^
znow-white
Resources - ^
LawrenceDeDark
Traditional Art - ^
oilsoaked
Traditional Art - ^
stigmatattoo
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