Your studio, your hands.
Print it yourself, or with the local printer you already trust, and ship it to your buyer. You choose the paper and the format. You tell us what making and shipping costs, and that comes back to you on top of your price.
Founding artists: help shape AArtners — read our note on artist control and how your storefront is set up.
A free gallery. Protected work. An AI tool you'll love.
Sell your originals. Get paid on every print. Get seen in real homes by people who wake up to your work, not scroll past it. Upload a photo and Prudence drafts the title, the description and the color palette for you. You name your price, you keep your rights, and you choose how every piece is made.
A gallery that never closes, in rooms people actually live in
Your art deserves more than one sale and a quiet wall.
AArtners gives you a storefront of your own at www.theASTRO.org: originals, prints, commissions, all in one place, all under your control. And it goes further than any website can. Owners across the ASTRO network can hang your work in their vacation rentals. A guest lives with your painting for a week. They sit with it over coffee. They ask about it. And before they've checked out, they've ordered it, and a print is on its way to their home.
That is a buyer no ad can find you.
Show us the work. Prudence handles the words.
The hardest part of selling art online was never the art. It's the blank title field, the description you've rewritten five times, the alt text you never got to.
Upload a photo and tell us what it is. Straight from your phone is fine; iPhone photos upload as they are. Prudence, ASTRO's AI assistant, looks at the piece and drafts the rest for you:
- A title, drafted from what she sees.
- A listing description that talks about the work, not the photo of it.
- The color palette, pulled straight from the piece.
- Subject, mood and style, in plain words a buyer understands.
- Alt text, so your work reaches people who use a screen reader, and search engines that read words, not paint.
- A second look at your photo. Glare, blur, a cropped edge: Prudence tells you when the photo isn't doing the work justice, so you can reshoot before a buyer sees it.
Every word is a suggestion. Keep it, change it, or write your own. Prudence never decides what's yours to decide: your medium, your size, your edition, your price.
Minutes per piece, not evenings. Your storefront goes from a folder of photos to a gallery.
Born on the Gulf Coast
Every November, downtown Ocean Springs, Mississippi, turns into a gallery. The Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival, named for the potter of Shearwater Pottery, fills the streets with painters, printmakers, potters and photographers who make their living by their hands.
This year we were there, booth to booth, asking artists one question: what would make selling your work feel right?
They told us. AArtners is built on what they said. If you were in one of those booths, you'll recognize yourself here.
ASTRO is a Mississippi organization, and the Gulf Coast is home. The towns from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula were among the first places in the ASTRO registry. It's fitting that so many of the artists we're building with come from the same coast.
Make it your way
Some artists want their hands on every print. Some sell originals and nothing else. Some love having ASTRO arrange quality production at cost, and would rather be painting while Prodigi prints. All three are right, and you can be all three on the same storefront: you pick, piece by piece, size by size.
Originals, shipped by the artist.
One piece, one buyer, packed by the person who made it. Add tracking and your buyer follows it all the way home.
Quality production through Prodigi, at cost.
Rather spend your time making art? ASTRO arranges production and shipping through Prodigi, the fine-art print lab. A traveler falls for your piece on the wall, orders a print, and Prodigi makes it and ships it straight to their home. Production and shipping pass through at cost. ASTRO adds nothing to it; our margin is on your price only. You choose which papers and formats your work appears on.
Hand-embellished, two ways.
Embellished Art is where a print becomes something more: a giclée you finish by hand with your own paint, texture or gold leaf, then sign and number as an edition. No two leave your studio quite alike.
- Your base, your hands. Print the giclée base in your own studio, add your Artist Embellishment, and ship it to the traveler's home.
- Prodigi's base, your hands. Prodigi prints a museum-quality giclée base and ships it to you. You add your Artist Embellishment, sign it, and send it on to the traveler's home. The base passes through at cost, like every Prodigi print.
You name your price for the embellished edition, just like every other tier.
Whatever you choose, nothing goes on sale until you've approved how it's made.
You name it. You net it.
Set the price you want to net on each tier you offer:
- Merch: cards and keepsakes, the piece a guest can take home today.
- Suitable for Hanging: museum-quality giclée and framed prints, made to order.
- Embellished Art: a giclée base you hand-finish with your own paint, texture or gold leaf, signed and numbered, with artist's proofs if you keep them. Print the base yourself or have Prodigi send it to you.
- Original: the one and only.
Whatever you name is what you net. Name $120 on a print and $120 is what reaches you, whoever makes it. ASTRO's margin, production and processing sit on top, and the buyer covers it all. Turn a tier off and your work is never reproduced that way.
The original sells once. The wall keeps selling. Every print a guest orders pays you exactly what you named, for as long as you keep that tier on.
Your gallery
Your gallery is free. No fee to join, no fee to list, no cut of your price. Every work gets a gallery, not a thumbnail. The full piece, the brushwork up close, the edge of the canvas, the piece hanging in a room. You choose the images and the order, and you choose the one that leads.
Your storefront is your gallery online, with your name on the door and a link that's yours to share. The homes across the ASTRO network are your gallery in the world: real walls, real light, and travelers who live with your work for days instead of seconds.
Your card is your work
From your Artist Studio, download your Media Package: your gallery images sized for sharing, a QR code to your storefront for print and screen, a scan-to-save contact card, and a phone card backed by your own piece. At a booth or a bar, show your phone. They scan it and they're in your gallery.
How we protect your work
Your art is your livelihood. We treat it that way.
Your master file stays private. The full-resolution file you upload is never shown to the public and never sent to a browser. It goes only to whoever makes your print, server to server, when an order you approved comes in.
Display only. Your work is shown on screen, never offered for download. ASTRO gives no one, not buyers, not owners, not other members, a way to save your high-resolution image.
Never printed bigger than your file can carry. Print sizes are capped by the quality of your master, so your work is never stretched past what it can hold. You can cap it smaller still.
Every permission is yours, one at a time. Showing a piece is not consent to sell it. Selling the original is not consent to reproduce it. Hanging your work in a home is not consent to sell prints from it. You choose which papers and formats a work may appear on, and you can turn any of it off.
Your name stays on it. Your work is always credited to you. Every original ships with a certificate of authenticity that names you, the work and the edition, issued the moment you mark it shipped.
No paid placement. No ranking for sale. Your work is found because it's good.
Who AArtners is for
Artists
A storefront that's yours, a link you can put on every card and bio, and walls across the network where your work is lived with.
Owners
Give guests something a commodity rental never can: an original on the wall, the story of the person who made it, and a piece they can take home.
Guests and collectors
Discover art the best way there is, by living with it. Buy the original, order a print, or ask the artist about a commission.
How it works
- Build your profile. Who you are, where you work, what moves you. Link your website and socials.
- Add your work. Paintings, photography, prints, digital art, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, mixed media and more, with sizes, prices, care notes and editions: signed and numbered, with artist's proofs if you keep them.
- Choose what's for sale, and how it's made. Originals, prints, inquiry-only, commissions, or consigned to a home. Made in your studio, by your printer, or through Prodigi at cost.
- Share your storefront. Your ASTRO link goes everywhere you meet buyers and fans.
- Get featured in homes. Owners choose work that fits their space and their guests.
- Buyers buy or inquire. Each order goes to whoever you chose to make and ship it.
Consignment: your original, in a real home
Place an original in a participating ASTRO home on consignment and the house becomes your gallery. Guests meet the piece in real light, in a real room, over several days. You and the owner agree on the placement together, and if it doesn't sell in the review period, you renew it, rotate in something new, or bring it home.
For artists
Artist onboarding guide
Seven-step walkthrough with screenshots — profile, artwork intake, offers, Stripe payouts, and publish checklist. Read before you start or keep it open while you onboard.
Read the artist onboarding guideFAQ
Quick answers for artists, owners and guests.
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