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VolcanicArts<\/a><\/strong> is a well-known art gallery in France which was established on March 31st, 2019. <\/span>Sandrine Parlant<\/a><\/strong> is the founder of the company who has put her blood and sweat into building the art gallery. <\/span><\/p>\n

She started her journey in the year of 2016 with an utter disappointment of her job that she was doing at that time. She had majored in Art history and also had experience in working with several art galleries. During her work she figured out her strength and expertise in art work which has given birth to the idea of starting her own business.  She also encouraged her friends who were struggling in this industry to join her team and shape up the dream of creating her own art gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Describing her story to us, she said “Art had always been my passion, I majored in art history at uni, and used to work at an art gallery. I figured I could use my “expertise” – let’s say “knowledge” at the time – to help a few of my artists\/friends who were struggling with a lot of thing : how to get in touch with an art gallery, how to set a price on an artwork, how to manage social medias, etc. I started with a few friends of mine trusting me with their passion, and my small business grew, attracting new artists whom I had never heard about before.” <\/span><\/p>\n

After struggling for two long years, she finally found a suitable place to build her art gallery. It was nothing but her own ancient books library that she has turned into an art gallery. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Two years later, I had learnt a few things on the way mostly on how, with a proper office or shop, my job was super hard. I found my dream premises and after six months of renovating on my own a former ancient books library, my very own gallery was open for business. The inauguration happened on March 31st 2019, the day before the 3-years-anniversary of my brand.” <\/span><\/p>\n

She has also shared the idea behind the name of her company Volcanic’Art. She named it Volcanic’Arts because the place where she lives in France is surrounded by dormant volcanoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inspiration behind the project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sandrine has a website for her company which not contains all the details of her business but also lets her visitors know about her upcoming events, exhibitions, workshops and more.  Informing her target audiences about her events was the main purpose of establishing a website of her company. She wanted to improve the quality of her website by adding various event management functionalities to it to increase traffic and this was the main inspiration behind the project. <\/span><\/p>\n

She said “I have had a website since the very beginning of this adventure. Online presence is major nowadays for artists and artshops, and to attract as many people as possible. My website is where you can see who I am, what I do, who my artists are, what they do, purchase some art and, of course, be informed of the current and upcoming events: exhibitions, art markets, workshops, etc. It is actually the main thing why the website was a necessity and why I worked – and still do – very hard on it. My newsletters have never really found their audience, and everyone know you should not rely exclusively on Facebook for events. Despite not having worked enough on my SEO, I have a pretty decent traffic on the website, and events are the first thing people see when they arrive on my homepage. So I needed something clean, attractive, and giving out the most important infos in an instant.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Issues faced:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The founder was looking for a WordPress plugin that would not only make her website aesthetically strong but also let her display event listings in a stylish way. She tried a WordPress plugin before switching to <\/span>WP Event Manager<\/strong> that did not perform that well. She found several bugs and other issues in it. When she contacted their support team they refused to pay attention to it. According to her it was functioning more like a simple calendar than an event listing platform. As she frequently organizes events, she wanted a long term solution for that. <\/span><\/p>\n

She added “I used to work with another event manager plugin, which was pretty limited and not so much aesthetic. And of course, aesthetics are a big thing in my field. I have worked with that same plugin for years, and then I started to encounter a few issues and bugs (with shortcodes in particular). I tried getting them fixed by the support, but never even get a reply. It was working more as a calendar than an event listing. I have very long events, since an exhibition in my gallery usually lasts between four and six weeks and shorter events are more isolated with maybe even less than one per month.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Why have you chosen WP Event Manager for your project? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sandrine seems to be thoroughly impressed with the features of WP Event Manager plugin including the venues and organizers feature. There are several other things that she liked about the plugin for which she selected it for her project. These things include: <\/span><\/p>\n