For Artists
Your Art Deserves More Than a Spreadsheet.
This is the full tour: how Art Easely connects your catalog, website, shop, collectors, prints, and marketing into one system.
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Why We Built This
The starving artist isn’t a character flaw.
It’s a systems problem.
Megan Schaugaard is a working oil painter — MFA from the New York Academy of Art, work sold to Brooke Shields at Tribeca Ball, marketing specialist for Fine Art Connoisseur and PleinAir — and she was still running her own career on five disconnected apps, a spreadsheet, and sticky notes.
“Every time I updated one thing, I had to manually update five others. It was exhausting.”
So she asked her husband Gary — a developer who’s built for the Smithsonian and Glasses.com — a simple question: what if we build a platform to keep all of it together? So they did.
“Good business is the best art.”
Andy Warhol — co-founder of the New York Academy of Art
Here’s the system we built — piece by piece.
All In One Place
Enter it once — it’s everywhere
Add an artwork to your catalog and it flows to your website, shop, portfolio, submissions, labels, and print-on-demand. No re-entry. Nothing goes stale.
Artwork Organization
Your complete artwork catalog, always up to date
- Every piece with its dimensions, medium, price, and provenance
- Search and filter to find any work in seconds
- Track what's in the studio, at a gallery, or sold — at a glance
- Labels and certificates of authenticity generated from your records
- Your bio, statement, and CV stored once and always current
Website for Artists
A professional website that actually represents your art
- Artist-designed templates that put the work first
- Build by choosing and arranging sections — no coding
- Your own domain and SEO built in so collectors can find you
- Everything in your dashboard publishes to your site automatically
- Rather not build it? We'll build it for you
CRM & Collectors
A built-in CRM that tracks every collector and contact
- A collector scans your QR code at an opening — they're in your CRM and on your list before they leave the room
- Contacts, leads, and collectors in one place
- Notes and follow-ups per collector, so no one slips through the cracks
You’re Building A Brand
Being organized is how you build a brand
Presenting your work in a way that matches the quality of what you create doesn’t mean losing who you are. It means looking like the professional you already are.
Your site, labels, and CV match the quality of the work.
Every piece, price, and exhibition is current — everywhere.
Collectors take you as seriously as you take your work.
Print on Demand
Sell prints with zero inventory
- Prints fulfilled through your own Lumaprints account
- No re-uploading — prints come from the same artwork record
- Originals, prints, and editions from one listing
- You keep 100% of every sale — no commission
Marketing & Integrations
Email, SEO, social — and everything in between
The marketing plumbing is already connected, so growing your audience doesn’t mean adding another tool.
Email integration
Newsletter signups sync to Mailchimp, MailerLite, Constant Contact, or SendInBlue.
SEO built in
Every page of your site is structured so collectors can find you.
Social feeds
Pull your Instagram and social content right onto your site.
Built-in blog
Publish from the same place you manage everything else.
QR codes
Capture collectors at shows and openings — straight into your CRM.
Payments
Stripe, PayPal, or Square — paid directly to your bank.
The Payoff
Organized. Polished. Paid.
Every tool above exists so the admin takes hours instead of weekends — and so your art makes money. Go deeper on any piece of the system:
“Art Easely is the best artist website host I have used. It is built specifically for artists with all the tools we need to manage our work and grow our careers. I finally feel like my online presence matches the quality of my art.”
Stacy Minch
Professional Artist
“This is one of the best and most professional companies I have worked with. They truly understand what artists need and the platform keeps getting better. I recommend Art Easely to every artist I know.”
Colleen Gianatiempo
Professional Artist
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The Full Story
From sticky notes to a system
Megan's story starts the way a lot of artists' do: circling creative work — drawing, photography, graphic design — until oil painting at Utah Tech University made it click. She worked in the campus gallery, found mentors who pushed her to keep going, and realized this wasn't just something she enjoyed. It was what she was supposed to do.
In 2020 she was accepted to the New York Academy of Art — right as COVID hit. Moving the whole family didn't make sense, so she went alone, two years in New York while Gary held down the fort at home with three kids. It was one of the hardest things their family has done.
While she was there, she sold work to Brooke Shields at Tribeca Ball. “Even selling at that level didn't equal overnight success,” she says. “I still needed a system.”
After her MFA, she joined Streamline Publishing as a marketing specialist for Fine Art Connoisseur and PleinAir — and saw the whole industry living her same chaos: one app for the website, another for email, a spreadsheet for inventory, sticky notes for collector contacts, and a CV document that was always out of date.
“Every feature in the platform exists because I experienced the problem firsthand or watched another artist struggle with it.”
Megan Schaugaard, Co-founder & CEO
Two moments crystallized it. At an Art Basel week breakfast, a collector mentioned she was getting tired of housing “poor artists” for a gallery each year — not realizing she was talking to one. And in a faculty meeting, the question came up: “How many of the students who graduate in art will actually become artists?” Why was that narrative so normal?
She kept telling Gary what she was seeing. Finally she asked: what if we build a platform to keep all of it together? He'd built software for the Smithsonian and Glasses.com. She had the art-world experience. They started building Art Easely from their home office — her describing what artists actually need, him figuring out how to build it.
The mission hasn't changed: challenge the starving-artist narrative. The talent was never the problem — the systems were. And in a world filling up with AI-generated everything, the handmade is becoming more valuable, not less. The tools handle the tedious admin. The artist gets back to the studio.
“Now that we can make everything look like it came off a conveyor belt, the imperfection of that which is touched by a human gains immense value.”
Simon Sinek — a line Megan keeps close
Megan Schaugaard
Co-founder & CEO
MFA, New York Academy of Art. Working oil painter, collected internationally, art faculty at Utah Tech, board member of Women Artists of the West. The artist voice behind every decision.
Gary Schaugaard
Technical Co-founder
Full-stack engineer, MBA. Has built for the Smithsonian and Glasses.com. Built the entire platform and uses it daily — the reason it all stays in sync, everywhere, automatically.