The benefits of starting a digital art portfolio and archive

Written By Georgina McDowall

Paul Gauguin, Paris sous la neige, 1894, oil on canvas, 72 x 88 cm, Van Gogh Museum. Image courtesy of the Van Gogh Museum.

Art portfolios and archives help document, promote, and sell artworks. However, arranging physical archives and gathering portfolio materials can be painful. Digital tools alleviate this burden and offer extensive benefits, including saving precious resources to secure an artist's legacy. Digital art portfolios and archives optimize artists’ hard work and increase their chances of success.

Navigating.art’s digital archiving and collection features let individuals capture and preserve materials of any kind to present a comprehensive picture of an artist’s life work. Transform these into professional digital portfolios that can be shared privately or found online. 

This guide covers the benefits of creating a digital art portfolio and archive now rather than waiting until a career is complete.  

  • Improve market standing 

  • Inexpensively share a career in progress

  • Evolve content and control narratives 

  • Protect legacy and intellectual property

Image credit: Claude Monet, La Valleuse, étude de soleil, c. 1862, Pastel on paper, 17.4 x 35.9 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Courtesy of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

Georgina McDowall

McDowall is a museum professional and freelance writer with Navigating.art. She has an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Amsterdam and spent the last seven years working in museums to make the world more equitable and ecologically sound.

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