Society of American Graphic Artists

The SAGA web site

Evan Lindquist

The following article first appeared in SAGAzine volume 1, no. 2, Winter 2004

The SAGA web site

by Evan Lindquist


"SAGA...?", "What is SAGA?", "What does SAGA do?" "How do you join SAGA?"

All SAGA members have probably answered questions like these from time to time, but now the answers are available on the Internet. Just a few years ago, not many people could imagine how much they would rely upon the Internet as an informational tool.
About 1995, following a few conversations with Michael DiCerbo (president of SAGA at the time) I began planning
a SAGA website on an educational server at Arkansas State University. The SAGA site was launched quietly, without much notice, in 1996.

Viewers stumbled into the SAGA pages through the earliest search engines (such as Alta Vista, Lycos, and Yahoo), but gradually, other webmasters began posting reciprocal links to the SAGA main page, and our information became more accessible.

On our website, visitors can find out about SAGA's organization, SAGA members, and their work. We also have links and general information about prints, printmaking, and print exhibitions.

The URL for the SAGA main page is <http://www.clt.astate.edu/elind/sagamain.htm> From that page, a visitor can access other SAGA pages.

Recently, SAGA member Tom Baker has designed and launched the Members' Portfolio. It is a venue which is easily accessible to a world wide audience. Using the work of SAGA members as examples, the portfolio promotes greater appreciation of contemporary prints, while introducing the work and contact information of individual artists to site visitors.

If you have never seen a SAGA exhibition in a gallery, the Members' Portfolio is the next-best way of seeing what your SAGA colleagues are doing. We hope every member will be represented in the portfolio. Here is a brief "users manual".

1. The URL for the Members' Portfolio is <http://www.clt.astate.edu/saga/>
2. The portfolio is open to all members in good standing.
3. As a member, you may be represented by one image.
4. We recommend that you update the image every six months.
5. Your contact information should be updated as often as necessary.
6. Submit your image via 35mm slide or as a tiff file on a CD or Zip disk.
7. Print and submit the form on the "Information" page.
8. Include a SASE for return of your materials.
9. Send to Tom Baker at address shown on Information page.

The web pages continue to be hosted by Arkansas State University in Jonesboro on its Center for Learning Technologies server.


Date of Publication: Winter, 2004. This article has not been published previously. Reproduction or publication is forbidden without the written consent of the author.

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