{"id":176603127,"date":"2018-07-21T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.artauthority.net\/?p=176602944"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:56:50","slug":"celebrating-two-years-of-even-more-giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/celebrating-two-years-of-even-more-giving-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating two years of (even more) giving back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free apps! Half off on all prints! This weekend only!<\/p>\n

Why? Here at Art Authority we’re proud of how we’ve been giving back to the art community. Starting with an app in the App Store the day that store opened ten years ago<\/a>, we’ve provided art lovers worldwide with access to over 100,000 classic works of art, university art history classes<\/a> with (literally) a new way of looking at art, and K-12 teachers<\/a> with the ability to involve their students with art in age-appropriate ways, including through\u00a0free lesson plans<\/a>. We authored a paper on evaluating the importance of art in the Internet era<\/a>, and are in the eighth year of our summer-intern program<\/a> for art majors.<\/p>\n

And now we have something else to really celebrate:<\/p>\n

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As of July 22, we’re celebrating two years since we acquired<\/a> 1000Museums.com<\/a> and the associated relationships with the artists and institutions that create and care for the art we all love so much. In those two years we have now given back, mainly in the form of royalties on prints we’ve sold, over $250,000. One-quarter of a million dollars has gone to helping current-day artists, artists estates and art museums big and small further their important missions of community, education, preservation and beauty. Some of the relationships we’re most proud of include:<\/p>\n