Public Portfolio Page & Privacy Settings

Your public portfolio page is a shareable page where galleries, curators and collectors can see your work. You decide whether it exists, who can reach it, and whether people can write to you through it. This guide covers those choices and how to share the result.

For adding and arranging the work itself, see Managing Your Portfolio and Collections.

Choosing who can see it

Open the portfolio's settings and find Visibility & Access. Portfolio Visibility has three settings:

Public - Visible to everyone. Anyone can open it.
Unlisted - Only accessible via direct link. It works for anyone you send the link to, and it is not listed anywhere.
Private - Only visible to you. Nobody else can open it, and there is nothing to share.

Unlisted is the right answer more often than people expect. It lets you send a specific curator a link without publishing an unfinished body of work to everyone.

Below the visibility setting:

Enable Discovery allows your portfolio to appear in public discovery listings. Turn it off to keep a public portfolio reachable by link without it being listed.
Default Portfolio marks which portfolio is your main one when you keep more than one.
Enable Contact Form puts a contact form on the page.

Your address

A public or unlisted portfolio needs a public profile handle before it has an address to share. Claim your handle in your profile settings, then your portfolio is reachable at an address built from your handle and the portfolio's own slug.

The share control tells you when something is missing. A private portfolio's share control simply says it is private and points you at the setting to change.

You can also give a portfolio its own Custom URL Slug in its settings, which is worth doing if you keep several and want their addresses to read clearly.

Linking to a single piece

Every artwork also has its own public page, so you can link somebody to one piece rather than the whole portfolio. Use it in an email or an application where a specific work is the point.

If you have an Artist Site on your own domain, the same is true there: a single artwork has its own page, with a Back to Portfolio link for anyone who wants to see the rest. See Custom Domains.

The contact form

With Enable Contact Form on, visitors can write to you from the page and the message reaches you inside Crafted Call. Your email address is not exposed, which is the main reason to prefer it over publishing an address.

Keep it on while you are looking for opportunities. A curator who has to hunt for a way to contact you often does not.

How the page looks

The portfolio's Display Layout offers Grid, Masonry or List.

Grid suits work of consistent proportions. Masonry suits a mixture of tall and wide pieces. List suits work that needs its details read alongside the image, such as editions and dimensions.

What to share and where

Once your portfolio is public or unlisted, put the link where people already are:

In applications that ask for a portfolio link
In your website and social profiles
In your email signature
In messages to galleries and curators

One link that always shows current work beats attaching a PDF that goes out of date the week you send it.

Deciding what to make public

Your portfolio visibility is separate from your artist profile's own privacy settings, which control whether your email, phone and messaging are shown. Set both, and check the result by opening your own page while signed out.