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MesArt provides an affordable and elegant internet presence with online sales capabilities to new, emerging, and practicing artists. In addition to our innovative website features, MesArt offers real benefits such as ease of use, a friendly support staff, secure transactions, fast loading times, online sales, credit card processing, and more.
MesArt Management Team
Tatiana Lyskova
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Tatiana's
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Tatiana Lyskova is the founder and CEO of MesArt.com. The organization was established in 2002 to provide an affordable platform for artists to showcase and sell their work. Since then, MesArt has grown to host over 1,500 artists in more than 20 countries around the world. Lyskova, who is originally from Moscow, Russia, earned a BFA degree in illustration and graphic design from The Print and Publishing University of Moscow. She worked for several years at large publishing houses in Russia before moving to the United States, where she began a new career in web design in California. She founded her own web design studio, which eventually became Taitl Design. Currently, Lyskova oversees all aspects of the MesArt organization.
Andrey Potekhin
Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer
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Andrey Potekhin graduated from Moscow State University in Russia before relocating to Silicon Valley to pursue a career in software engineering. Andrey manages the technical aspects of MesArt and enjoys bird watching, ping-pong, as well as freshwater and mountain climbing.
Marti McKee
Director of Communications
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Marti's
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Marti McKee is a San Francisco-based artist who has studied drawing and printmaking with a focus on the human and animal forms for nearly 20 years. She has taken classes at San Francisco City College (Phelan and Fort Mason campuses), UC Berkeley Extension, and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. Over the years, Marti has exhibited her work in various shows and has been selected for multiple juried events. She draws inspiration from both the great masters and local artists and has served on the Artists Advisory Council and Board of Directors of ArtSpan, a nonprofit organization that produces San Francisco Open Studios.
Until mid-2006, Marti McKee worked as a Federal employee in media and public relations, which required some creative instincts. However, her true passion has always been exploring and expressing the human/animal condition through drawing. Since retiring, she has been able to devote all her time to her artistic pursuits.
Valeria Kumin
Director of Centre for Professional Growth
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Valeria coaches individuals and solo practitioners to achieve their life and business goals, and has helped companies develop their business, marketing, and public relations strategies. She has trained hundreds of people worldwide in communication, negotiation, and leadership.
"I have a passion for opening the world of possibilities for people. Where people see conflict and limitations, I see potential and opportunity. I feel personally responsible for helping people create success in their personal and professional lives and achieve the results they desire," says Valeria.
Mrs. Kumin previously worked as the vice president of an international design company at the San Francisco Design Center, where she worked with internationally acclaimed designers. She established successful relationships with art dealers and galleries, sold paintings to customers, and helped visual artists display, market, and promote their work.
As a public speaker, she has presented at Dublin and Limerick Universities in Ireland, the Academy of Management in Moscow, Chico State, Golden Gate Law School, Stanford, and Berkeley University in California.
Valeria is a Certified Master Results Coach, Master Practitioner of NLP, Certified Master Hypnotist, Master Performance Consultant, Advanced Neurological Repatterning Practitioner, Certified Trainer, and Mediator.
Sabine Grand
Director of Marketing
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Sabine Grand is a graphic designer who specializes in web design. In addition to her interest in visual and digital art, she is also an accomplished glassblower. A native of Lyon, France, she has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for ten years. Grand is the founder and CEO of her own design company, Griffon Studios, and is the co-founder of MesArt. Regarding her approach to art, Grand states: "Creativity, when applied to a specific digital process, results in a series of new and original works. Texture takes on new meaning, and images shape themselves in an organic yet figurative style."
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Press Release
MesArt Reaches an Important Milestone in Popularity
MesArt, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has announced that its website has reached a major milestone in popularity, having been rated #1 in art hosting by Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as well as previously by Netscape, MSN, AltaVista, and AOL. Google also rates MesArt #1 in the "artist listing" category, which has over 8.5 million web pages.
MesArt is an artist-run and curated website with a local and international reach. It was founded by artist Tatiana Lyskova to provide an affordable web presence and online sales capability to her fellow artists. MesArt currently features a diverse range of fine art, craft, and commercial artworks, including painting, graphics, printmaking, photography, illustration, glass, jewelry, metalwork, wood, fiber art, murals, sculpture, and mixed media.
MesArt is a platform where artists of all levels of skill can display and market their art and connect with art collectors, stores, exhibition venues, and galleries. It provides easy exposure in its Lobby (free) and in its elegant Portfolio and Artist Studio with its unique blend of management tools and personalized features, which enable artists to list and sell their art online, update their biographies, and list current shows, sales, and exhibitions, maintain guest books, and much more.
With a spate of online art websites already available, MesArt stands out by creating relationships between itself and the artists involved with the site. Since MesArt is directed and maintained by artists, it knows and has experienced the multifaceted methods and intents of displaying and exhibiting art. MesArt also offers discounts on a full range of design services, including graphic design, web design, and CD business card portfolios, and works with artists to develop another essential link of their professional artistic lives. |
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