How to Get Featured in Artist Weekly
Creative work is hard to explain in a portfolio and easy to explain in an article, which is why a written feature is useful to artists.
Here is what Artist Weekly is, what it is not, and how people get featured.
What Artist Weekly is
Artist Weekly is a digital publication covering artists, creative practice and the people making work across visual art, music, design and performance. Online only, permanently live, and indexed by search engines.
It sits among the independent digital culture titles rather than the established arts press, which shapes both how accessible it is and what a placement means.
Its coverage is written for a general reader with an interest in creative work rather than for critics or academics, which sets the register of what appears there.
How much weight it carries
Worth being blunt about.
A feature here is not the same as a review in a major arts publication or a national culture desk. Curators, galleries and critics know the difference, and presenting a smaller digital feature as though it were a serious critical notice will damage you with exactly the people you want to impress.
What it does well is different and still real. It gives you a permanent, credible article that explains your practice in plain language, appears when someone searches your name, and can be sent to a gallery, a collector, a venue or a commissioning client who is deciding whether to take you seriously. For most working artists that is a genuine gap, and it is the gap this fills.
Treat it as the first entry on a public record rather than as the record itself.
What a feature includes
A solo, dedicated article about you and your work, with a headline and angle built around your practice. Typically images of the work and links to your website and socials.
It publishes permanently and stays indexed, so it keeps working every time someone researches you.
It is a profile rather than a review. Nobody is assessing the work critically, and it should never be described as though they were.
How to get featured
- Pitch directly. Free and legitimate, dependent on fit and editorial capacity.
- Contributed or sponsored placement. Smaller digital titles accept contributed and sponsored articles far more readily than established arts publications do. That is a paid route and it should be named as one.
- Use a professional feature service. A team writes it to the publication's standard and places it. Faster and more predictable, which is why most artists choose it.
What makes a strong piece
Talk about the work, not the career.
The features that read well explain what you are actually doing: the materials, the question the work keeps returning to, what changed in your practice and why, what you were trying and failed at. Readers of arts coverage are used to statements that say nothing, so specificity stands out immediately.
Good images matter as much as the text. A piece with weak photography of strong work will undersell you.
Context helps as well. Where the work sits, who it is for, where it has been shown and what you are making next all give a reader somewhere to go once the article ends, which is the difference between being read and being remembered.
What to expect from the process
Share your work and your story, our team drafts the piece, you review with revisions until it is right, and nothing publishes until you approve it. Then it goes live and you get the link.
Digital Networking Agency works with Artist Weekly alongside a wide network of digital publications. Any provider who cannot show you the draft first is not one to use.
We will also say plainly when a specialist arts publication would serve your practice better.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as a review in a major arts publication?
No, and it should never be presented as one. This is a smaller digital title. It is more accessible and carries less critical weight.
Who does Artist Weekly suit?
Visual artists, musicians, designers, performers and creative studios who need a clear, permanent article explaining their work.
Can I approve the article before it publishes?
Yes. You review and revise until it is right, and nothing publishes without your approval.