Shavis.com - Visual Arts News

ShaVis is news site for anything relating to the visual arts. You’ll find articles on everything from black and white photography and anime, to industrial design and installation art. Registered users can submit news articles, stories, and event opening/festival announcements. Users can also search for information by category, as each item is classified by genre, by location, and tags, or they can use the search bar for more specific queries. Each story on ShaVis contains contact info, relevant links, along with space for comments. The site offers an RSS feed as well. Curators, gallery owners, and artists are invited to collaborate with ShaVis by becoming part of their partner network. It’s free to join.

“ShaVis is the visual's newsnet, the widest newscast about visual topics of the Net. Here, you can find (virtually...) any news about art, video (& film & animation), web design, graphic design, industrial design, photography. But ShaVis is not only the right place where to search: obviously, is the best place to communicate worldwide your news about art, video (& film & animation), web design, graphic design, industrial design, photography! Have you organized an exhibit? in your city will be a festival? Break the news! Share it worldwide! If you want be active part of ShaVis's community, Mobile: all you need to join in it is register, and start right off to submit news. Simple. Like a click ”

The nice thing about ShaVis is that articles are contained within the site itself, meaning you won’t have to go off site or open a new page to get the info. It’s also got a wide selection of visual arts news. Members are thus not limited to a single category. It’s pretty simple to use too.

For a site based on visuals, ShaVis could use a little design work itself. Articles are somewhat unclear and cluttered. There aren’t many actual visuals on the site. The variety of color and the amount of text on the homepage makes the site feel hectic and crowded. Will visual arts enthusiasts be attracted to a site that isn’t visually pleasing in the least?