Currently our site is international, representing over 100 artists from around the world. We have poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, digital artists, performance artists, animators and much more. We are always open to adding artists in new areas. To reach the artists here, you can visit their studios and see their email address. If you would like to reach the site webmaster, our email address. Art on the Net came into existance in June of 1994. The idea of having such a site came to Lile while she was involved in an open studios event in April. She was displaying many of her new oil paintings in her studio when a friend and young entrepeneur came through and wanted to purchase fine art collage an oil painting entitled "art on the net". they talked about how wonderful it would be to have art up on the internet for viewing and he offered lile internet access for a www site that would help artists share their art. so like many things in the art world, the site began with a barter with lile trading the oil painting, "art on the net" for an internet connection art for one year.

then lile got an old unix machine together (being a unix systems administrator, this was fairly simple) and registered art.net with the internic. once the domain was created, with the help of friends, she brought up art.net onto the internet. lile started contacting artists about the san francisco bay area who might be interested in showing collage their works on the internet and helped them come up horses in fine art on art.net. she visited many cafe''s to see the local artists works and enjoy the coffees. when she saw works she liked, she contacted the artists and offered art to help them come up on the internet and the www via art.net. many artists took the plunge and are now resident artists here at art.net. artists from around the net started hearing about collage art on the net or would discover the art.net web site via the www.

once a wooden sculpture has been dehydrated fine cracks will appear, where even exposure to high relative humidity will not make the cracks close up entirely. however, conservators can fill the cracks with a variety of materials to create a unified visual impression. what should i ask for when matting and framing works of art on paper? mat board should be made from 100% rag or lignin-free cellulose. sometimes those labelled as "museum board" or "conservation board" are not of the highest quality. alkaline buffered boards are not sufficient if the board contains wood pulp. photographs should not be matted with alkaline buffered boards as some prints are adversely effected by alkalinity. hinges are used to attach the work of art to the backboard of the mat. they should be made of japanese paper, and should be adhered with wheat starch paste. pressure sensitive adhesive tapes and pre-gummed tapes should not be used. photographs are art often attached collage to the mat with photo corners.