The Firehouse Gallery is a premier art gallery for New England artist located in mid coast Maine.

Challenge:
The Gallery needed the ability to display the art to a larger geographical audience and enable administrators to manage exhibitions, artist and artwork in real time through the website.

Solution:
The Gallery engaged Hodgson to create and execute the following:

• Redesign the website to reflect the history and sophistication of the Gallery
• Develop an administration tool to add, edit and delete artists and their works
• Develop an administration tool to allow artist categorization enabling users to search by category, artist or artwork
• Develop an administration tool to manage exhibition schedules and associate the artists with the exhibitions
• Monitor and measure web traffic

Result:
The Gallery achieved the following:

• Real time display and management of artists works on the web
• Larger geographical reach - bring the "virtual" Gallery to non locals
• Increased web traffic by 28% over the last six months