The Galerra Blog
Guides for artists & galleries.
No-fluff guides on showing and selling your work — building 3D galleries, pricing art, and running virtual exhibitions.
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· 6 min read
874 Commits: What Building Galerra Actually Looked Like
Fifteen months, two codebases, 874 commits, one person. What got built, what got thrown away, and the weeks where nothing moved — read back from the record rather than from memory.
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Run a Class Exhibition Online When Your Students Can't Have Accounts
Most virtual exhibition tools ask every student for an email address, and that's where school art projects die. Here's how to run a class show with one link and a nickname, with nothing to provision per student.
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How to Photograph Your Artwork With a Phone (So It Hangs Right)
A practical guide to photographing paintings, drawings and prints with a phone — light, angle, cropping, glare and colour — so the work looks right on a wall in a 3D gallery.
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How to Host an Opening Night for an Online Exhibition
A link posted at random gets scrolled past. A date gets attended. How to plan, invite, host and follow up an opening night for an online show — as an artist, a collective, or a class.
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How to Write a Wall Label: Title, Materials, and the Two Sentences Beside the Work
A practical guide to writing wall labels for your art — the conventional order of information, how long a caption should be, how to write about your own work without art-speak, and why the title does more work than you think.
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· 5 min read
A Room vs a Grid: Why Walkable Beats Scrollable
A grid of thumbnails flattens scale and destroys sequence. A walkable room gives both back — and changes how people look. An honest argument, including when a grid is still the better tool.
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How to Create a 3D Virtual Art Gallery (Free, in Minutes)
A step-by-step guide to building a walkable 3D virtual art gallery online — upload your images, pick a room, and share a link visitors can explore. No 3D skills needed.
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How to Sell Your Art Online: A Practical Guide for Independent Artists
A no-fluff guide to selling art online as an independent artist — where to sell, how to price your work, how to present it so it feels real, and how to turn interest into sales.
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Virtual Exhibitions for Art Teachers: A Classroom Guide
How art teachers can use 3D virtual exhibitions to showcase student work, run critiques, and give every student a shareable portfolio — a practical, no-setup classroom guide.
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