Follow new launches, feature expansions, and product thinking for call for artists software, jury review, exhibitions, gallery websites, email marketing, artwork sales, and more.
Help Center, mobile polish, and larger artwork uploads
Early June focused on self-serve help, a smoother mobile experience, and more forgiving artwork uploads for artists submitting to calls.
LaunchedEveryone
Searchable Help Center with guided articles
A new Help Center launched with articles covering calls, submissions, jurying, exhibitions, and marketing, plus relevance-ranked search and a direct path to ask Frida for help.
ExpandedArtists
Artwork uploads up to 50MB
Artists can now upload artwork images up to 50MB, with automatic resizing on display so large files stay fast on public pages and admin views.
ExpandedEveryone
Mobile experience polish across the platform
A dedicated mobile quality pass fixed overflow, layout, and navigation issues across admin lists, organization settings, brand tools, and public pages.
QualityAdmins and artists
Quality work for submissions and jury decisions
Fixes improved jury decision counts across pages, the Edit Draft action on My Submissions, submission detail reliability, and campaign preview behavior.
Product announcement
Frida assistant, donations, and rental inquiry tools launched
Late May launched major new capabilities: a far more capable Frida assistant, donation collection for art organizations, rental inquiry workflows, and a modernized admin experience.
LaunchedGallery teams
Frida can help across the whole platform
Frida, Crafted Call's built-in assistant, can now look up and act on calls, submissions, orders, finances, marketing, and memberships, with clear previews and confirmations before anything changes.
LaunchedNonprofit arts teams
Donations for art organizations
Organizations can now collect donations with Stripe checkout, automatic receipts, donor records, and donation reporting inside financial tools.
LaunchedRental administrators
Rental inquiry forms and follow-up tools
Space rental work added public rental interest forms, an admin inbox with threaded replies and follow-up tracking, and an embeddable widget for organization websites.
ExpandedGallery admins
Admin lists became faster to work in
Admin list pages were modernized with consistent row actions, bulk actions and export, keyboard shortcuts, undo for destructive actions, and a cross-resource activity feed.
ExpandedArtists
Smoother artist signup and submissions
Artists are signed in automatically after signup, artwork uploads go directly to storage for reliability, and a required-fields checklist shows exactly what is left before submitting.
Product blog
Product Announcements are now public
A public product blog for Crafted Call launches, gallery management software improvements, and the workflows we are actively building for art organizations.
LaunchedEveryone
Product Announcements for gallery teams
Customers and visitors can now follow shipped Crafted Call features for call for artists management, online jurying, exhibitions, websites, email marketing, and artwork sales.
ExpandedGallery teams and artists
Launch notes organized by workflow
Announcements are grouped around real gallery workflows for administrators, artists, jurors, buyers, and nonprofit arts teams rather than internal implementation details.
NoteOrganization admins
Built from shipped product work
This page highlights launched capabilities and thoughtful product improvements, while keeping future roadmap details and build mechanics private.
Product announcement
Gallery workflow launches for calls, jurying, and exhibitions
May product work connected more of the call for artists lifecycle: call management, submission review, jury workflows, exhibition planning, and follow-up communication.
ExpandedGallery admins
More connected call and exhibition management
Gallery admin surfaces continue moving toward clearer status, next-step, and task context for calls, submissions, jury review, exhibitions, and artist communication.
ExpandedGallery teams
Marketing and exhibition content stays closer to the source
Marketing Hub and exhibition workflows make it easier to reuse call details, artwork information, artist context, and gallery branding without rebuilding the same information.
QualityOperators and admins
Quality work behind scheduled workflows
Reliability improvements support scheduled messages, payment follow-up, notifications, and other background workflows that galleries expect to run without extra attention.
Product announcement
Gallery websites, storefronts, and brand tools expanded
Crafted Call's public-facing website builder and storefront tools gained practical defaults for galleries that want calls, exhibitions, contact pages, and art sales in one connected place.
LaunchedGallery admins
Organization websites can start with practical pages
Gallery website scaffolding starts closer to what art organizations actually need: home, about, exhibitions, calls for artists, and contact pages.
LaunchedGallery teams and buyers
Storefront groundwork for artwork sales online
Public shop work gives organizations a clearer path to list artwork, support checkout, and keep order context connected to exhibition and gallery management workflows.
ExpandedOrganization admins
Brand Kit reaches more surfaces
Brand choices such as logos, colors, fonts, and button styles can carry further into email, signup, and public page experiences.
Quality announcement
Production infrastructure upgraded for reliability
Crafted Call moved to a more controlled production hosting setup to support the next stage of reliability, monitoring, recovery, and platform operations.
ExpandedAll customers
More control over production operations
The production environment now gives the team more direct control over deploys, monitoring, recovery work, and the operational foundation behind gallery management software.
NoteEveryone
No customer action required
Organizations, artists, and jurors did not need to change passwords, update links, or reconnect accounts for this move.
Product announcement
ArtCall migration, gallery pricing, and Marketing Hub launch work
April focused on helping galleries move from ArtCall to Crafted Call, understand gallery software pricing, and send audience-aware email marketing campaigns with stronger controls.
LaunchedGallery admins
Free ArtCall migration path for galleries
Organizations gained a clearer path to migrate calls, submissions, images, and jury information from ArtCall into Crafted Call with guided migration support.
ExpandedProspective galleries
Clearer pricing for call for artists software
Pricing pages and plan language were revised around real gallery workflows, including calls for artists, exhibitions, submissions, jurying, marketing, sales, and organization growth.
ExpandedGallery marketing teams
Marketing Hub controls expanded
Marketing Hub work expanded email suppression tools, sending defaults, campaign audit trails, editor protection, and persistent audience targeting for gallery newsletters and announcements.
QualityOperators and admins
Quality work for imports and payments
Reliability work strengthened the operational foundation behind imports, submission payments, image handling, and background jobs that support gallery teams.
Product launch roundup
Jury awards, gallery layout tools, and payment workflows expanded
Mid-April added more depth around online jurying, exhibition presentation, gallery payment categories, and operational tools for managing real art organization workflows.
ExpandedGallery admins and jurors
Online jurying and award workflows expanded
Jury management gained more support for award timing, winner communication, score visibility, and the practical realities of running juried exhibitions.
LaunchedCurators and exhibition teams
Gallery layout validation became part of exhibition planning
Exhibition layout work strengthened how galleries prepare artwork placement, public exhibition pages, and curated presentation details.
ExpandedGallery owners
Payment workflows recognized more gallery revenue types
Crafted Call continued broadening beyond entry fees to support donations, merchandise, rentals, raffles, sponsorships, and other art organization revenue streams.
Product announcement
Submission management, call discovery, and campaign builder launches
March improved the daily experience of submission management, call discovery, artist notifications, gallery analytics, and email campaign creation.
ExpandedGallery admins and artists
Submission filters and call discovery expanded
Submission filters and public call discovery gained better filtering and shareable working views for gallery administrators, call managers, and artists looking for opportunities.
ExpandedGallery teams
Gallery analytics scaled for larger programs
Performance work made analytics dashboards, admin lists, submissions, artworks, and public gallery pages behave better as organizations grow their programs.
Marketing Hub added campaign templates, reusable content blocks, newsletter generation, drag-and-drop editing, test sends, and per-block engagement reporting.
QualityArtists and admins
Quality work for notifications and data validation
Product quality work strengthened artist notifications, badges, deep links, status handling, and shared validation across more gallery workflows.
Product launch roundup
Visual email campaign builder and content blocks expanded
March also brought a richer Marketing Hub editing experience for galleries building newsletters, exhibition announcements, artist spotlights, and call promotion emails.
LaunchedGallery marketing teams
Reusable content blocks for gallery email marketing
Campaign builder work added reusable text, image, button, divider, spacer, section, and column patterns for gallery newsletters and exhibition announcements.
ExpandedGallery staff
Drag-and-drop editing became more polished
The campaign canvas gained clearer insertion points, block actions, style controls, preview behavior, keyboard support, and mobile-aware editing patterns.
ExpandedOrganization admins
Email rendering moved closer to production needs
Marketing Hub work strengthened how gallery campaigns are rendered, previewed, tested, scheduled, and reviewed before sending.
