Contacts

Contacts brings together people and organizations already connected to your work, along with contacts you add yourself.

It gives you one place to find buyers, collaborators, galleries, organizations, and other professional contacts without entering the same name repeatedly.

Where contacts come from

Artlope automatically includes a contact when you add one of these details elsewhere:

• the buyer recorded for an artwork sale
• a collaborator on an artwork
• the venue for an exhibition
• the organization for a submission
• the recipient of a portfolio

When an exhibition or submission has contact details, its email address or link is also shown with the gathered contact. Each contact shows the records it is connected to. Select a connected record to open the original artwork, exhibition, submission, or portfolio.

Contacts with the same name are combined into a single entry. For example, a gallery listed as an exhibition venue and as a submission organization appears once, with both connections.

Add and update contact details

Use Add contact to create a contact that is not yet connected to another Artlope record. You can save a name, email address, website link, and note.

You can also select the edit button on any contact to add or update those details. This is useful when a contact was gathered automatically and you want to keep their email address, website, or notes alongside the connected records.

Editing a contact does not change the buyer, collaborator, venue, organization, or recipient saved in its original record. Update those connections from the relevant artwork, exhibition, submission, or portfolio page.

Find the contacts you need

Use the search field to search contact names, email addresses, links, and notes, as well as text in connected artworks, exhibitions, submissions, and portfolios. Search also finds buyer and collaborator contacts through their related artwork or sale records.

The list shows how many contacts match your search and filters. Use Filter to open the filter menu and:

• narrow the list by contact name
• filter by buyer, exhibition, collaborator, portfolio, submission, or manually added contact
• filter by year: connected contacts use the latest year from a connected record, while manually added contacts without a connection use their creation year

Selected filters appear as pills above the list. Remove a single filter from its pill, or choose Clear all to reset them. Use the sort menu to sort contacts by name, type, or year. Choose ascending or descending order; year sorting runs from oldest to newest or newest to oldest.

Manual contacts that have no connected record are still kept in your list, so you can build your own contact directory over time.