The Artopium Roving Festival is preparing for it's next festival to be celebrated in Portland, Oregon sometime near the end of this summer!

This is a Call to
ALL Artists and Musicians

We NEED you NOW! SIGN UP!

Too early to plan ahead to participate?

That's OK, this is a FIRST STEP call, as all artists, musicians, fashion designers, authors and filmmakers will need to become a member of Artopium.com in order to be eligible to participate. And why woudn't you want to join? It's free to take advantage of all the new features Artopium.com can offer to you such as the ability to instantly add your Creative Works to eBay or accept credit cards for your work right on Artopium, connect your work to many popular sites like google, Kaboodle, Mixx, Digg and much more!

Would you be surprised if I told you that it's completely free to receive all this? All you have to do is fill out your basic information in a quick and easy form and you'll have instant access to one of the fastest growing art and music consignment services on the net.

Once you have become a member, you will receive an invitation in your email to sign up for your booth space reservation or, if you are a band, your audition time. This email will come out 6 or 7 weeks before the date of the festival.

So what are you waiting for?

Join Artopium now and become a member of the only art and music consignment website backed by a roving festival!

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I'm not kidding, this has gotta be one of the coolest things I've added to Artopium yet. It's social networking on steroids. Want to get started? Simply go to your Artopium profile page and click on the share button in the "Link to this page" box. Your profile page has this button and so does every buy now page for all of your Creative Works, so you can either share your artist bio or each of your creative works individually. Done adding your art, music, fashion, film or book content to all those cool social bookmarking and social shopping sites? Now go add some other artists on Artopium using their share buttons. Tell them what you did and ask them to return the favor. Now you're getting somewhere!

Let me just say, first of all, thank you for being my friend. Whether I friended you, or you friended me, doesn't matter anymore, because here we are, friends.

But, just why ARE we friends?

Could you imagine that we might get along so well? And I must say, although I may not have had a chance to witness it personally, I do enjoy the work you do, and I hope that I can impress upon you the importance your work has on the world. I also hope to share with you the benefit of being an Artopium Artist Member and sharing your art, music, fashion, film or book with the world at large.

I have over 5000 friends on this MySpace page (and growing rapidly every day) yet there are currently only around 800 of you who have joined Artopium. Since a lot of you have taken the effort to friend me, message me, post comments, blogs and such, about your work, I'm sure you are interested in furthering the promotion of your work.

And all you have to do is sign up, for free, fill out a few forms, upload your mp3s or mpgs or even embed your Google and YouTube videos, and viola, you now have a power packed profile page pointed directly at your peers. : )

At least do yourself the benefit of visiting Artopium and checking out the features. It's very easy, taking about 3 minutes to sign up, and about another 10 or 15 minutes to complete your profile page to include a bio, images, and buy now buttons linked directly to your creative works.

And Artopium provides links back to your website, MySpace page, and coming soon your DeviantArt and Etsy pages too! Talk about increasing your link popularity!

The only real question I have for you, is why you wouldn't sign up? You'd be missing out on too much. Especially since right now I'm offering
 
FREE UPGRADES to PREMIUM ACCOUNTS

for a whole year, where you will get more disk space (100 MB) for uploading your mp3s, mpgs and images, the ability to instantly add your creative works to eBay listings for immediate bidding,  longer range statisitics, and best of all LOWER COMMISSION RATES!

All you have to do to take advantage of this is simply sign up to Artopium.com and become an Artist Member, complete your profile page to include as much information as possible, and have at least one Creative Work for sale. Once you have set up your account, which is completely free, quick and easy to do (or perhaps you already have an account?), just contact us and let us know your Artopium profile URL and it will be reviewed shortly. This is a very limited offer and only available to the first 5 people who contact me and have completed the requirements.

Anyway, I'm sure I've rambled on enough about this. Besides, what are you doing still reading this? Go sign up to Artopium.com right now!

This is still a very new feature and is still  in the beta testing phase. I am going to give away a few Premium accounts and let artists use the features such as adding works to eBay, completely for free for one year. This will eventually be a $24.99 per year value, but if you are interested in testing out the new features, please contact me and I will take a look at your account. I'm looking for artists who have a very well formed profile page, completed with everything that can be. The higher your rating points and account activity the better too. Anyway, these are very limited ad will be on a first come first serve basis, so don't hesitate. Just contact me ASAP. :)

So, we're getting ready for our first out-of-Austin adventure by going to Wyoming at the end of the month for this years national rainbow gathering. We hope to create our own kitchen and camp area full of creativity and art. Our Artopium Art Camp combined with the so-famous "Millaways" rainbow kitchen, so to speak, run by the now very famous Freeman from FreemanTV.com.

We are currently encouraging the support of our members and fellow "patrons of the arts" in the form of sponosrships or simple donations. Any contribution you can make will greatly help.

I am also making jewelry again, in an effort to raise money, and also to just get into the spirit. At rainbow, money is deeply discouraged, so I thought I might start making it again to trade with while I'm there, and to try to raise money for food, fuel and supplies. I make fine beaded and hemp necklaces, bracelets and anklets, using fine crystals, jade, hematite, bone, glass and more. I made and Artopium page where you can see my entire collection which you can visit here:

Artopium.com/mikesjewelry

You can now browse through all art, music, fashion, film and book titles and have them sorted by price!! Come check it out!

I have another myspace page at myspace.com/secondartrenaissance dedicated to the correspondance of my U.S. / European tour in which I will be promoting and networking all of the Artopium member's art and works. This is a massive campaign involving many people world wide and I encourage you to be a part of it! If you are interested in joining and participating in this process, please take the time to add the Second Art Renaissance as your friend.

Wow, you asked for it, and so it is. I would like to invite you back to Artopium.com where many new and exciting changes have been made to better facilitate the promotion and sales of your Creative Works.



Much work was done to provide a better working and more efficient site, so come back and check it out. I think you'll like what you see!