Your profile, and your say over it

Why there's a page about you

boulder.art is a guide to the visual art of Boulder County. We build it the way a guidebook has always been built: by finding artists who work here — from their own websites, gallery rosters, studio tours, and public listings — and writing them up so people can find them.

That means a profile can exist before you've ever heard of us. We think a guide that only lists artists who signed up isn't a guide, it's a directory of the already-visible. But it also means the first thing you should be able to do is take control of it, or take it down.

What's on a profile

Professional information, published by you or about you: your name, the kind of work you make, the town you work in, a short description, images of your work, and the ways you've chosen to be contacted professionally — your website, your public studio or gallery email, your social links.

We don't publish home addresses (a studio address appears only when it's already public, such as on an open-studios map), phone numbers we weren't given for publication, or anything private. If something on your page is wrong, out of date, or more than you want public, it comes down — see below.

Who owns the images

You do. Copyright in a work stays with the artist who made it, always. Showing a piece in the guide gives us no right in it — we don't license it, sell it, sell prints of it, take a commission, or offer it for download. Every artwork page names its maker as the copyright holder, on the page and in the data search engines read.

The images come from how the work is already shown publicly — your own site, a gallery's roster, a studio-tour listing — and we publish them at web size, for one purpose: so that someone who likes the piece can find you. Every path off that page leads back to you.

If you want to use an artist's image for anything, ask the artist. We can't grant permission we don't have, and we won't pretend otherwise.

We don't block AI crawlers, and we've thought about it. When someone asks an assistant who paints in Boulder, we want the answer to name the artists here and cite where it found them — being unreadable means being unmentioned. Letting a crawler read a page is not a licence to use the work in it, and we've granted none. If you'd rather your work weren't here on those terms, that's a fair position and one email away.

If you have an account

Accounts exist for one reason: claiming your profile so you can edit it. We store your email address, and we sign you in with a one-time link rather than a password. We don't sell it, rent it, or add you to a mailing list you didn't ask for.

The guide is free, takes no commission, and doesn't run an ad network — we have no business reason to do anything else with your address.

The email list

There's one mailing list, and you're on it only if you asked twice — once by entering your address, and again by clicking the link we send to it. Claiming a profile doesn't add you. Nor does signing in, or writing to an artist through the site.

Art events around Boulder County, featured artists, beautiful work, and the occasional word from the guide. A few emails a month, and never noise. Every one of them has an unsubscribe link that works in one click, and we don't ask why.

The address lives with Resend, the service that sends our mail, and nowhere else. We don't share it, sell it, or use it to work out anything else about you. Ask us to delete it and it's gone.

Correcting your profile

Claim it. Claiming is free, takes about a minute, and hands you the page: your words, your images, your links, in your order. It's the fastest fix for anything that's wrong, and it's why the claim link sits on every unclaimed profile.

Removing your profile

Email hello@boulder.art from an address we can recognize as yours — the one on your website, or one at your own domain — and tell us which profile to remove. We take it down within two business days, usually the same day.

Removal is permanent unless you ask us to undo it: the page goes off the site and out of our search index, and the automated systems that find and update artist pages are told to leave that artist alone from then on. You don’t have to explain why, and it costs you nothing later — ask us to put it back whenever you like.

Want part of it gone rather than all of it? Say so — a single image, your email address, your studio location. Partial removal is the same email and the same turnaround.

We honor requests from artists, and from the families and estates of artists who have died.

Getting in touch

Anything at all — hello@boulder.art. A person reads it. If you’re not listed yet and would like to be, that’s the same address, and this page explains what a profile gets you.