Archives that have to be findable
- FCA: 1,100+ Prismic pages; 60+ years; 8,000+ grants; filter by program, discipline, and year; $31.5M+ in grants supported by the platform; 400–600K annual visitors.
Arts, Culture & Nonprofit
Platforms for arts organizations that have more history, and more operations, than a template can hold.
We build the public site and the operating system behind it: grant archives, benefit exhibitions, ticketing, CRM, exhibitor portals, and stores for one-of-a-kind work. Design partners often lead the visual language (Team on FCA; Slant Partners provided direction on Dallas Art Fair). We engineer the product and stay on it. FCA since 2021. Dallas Art Fair since 2016.
Who This Is For
Arts organizations whose site is also the back office
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Artist-founded nonprofits
Decades of grant history that must stay searchable, not buried in PDFs.
- 02
Art fairs
Tickets, collectors, and 90+ galleries that need a year-round login.
- 03
Cultural orgs with unique inventory
The store is donated or one-of-a-kind work, not a SKU grid.
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Small in-house teams
Staff who will edit the CMS themselves after launch.
Honest limit
Published proof is arts and culture (FCA, Dallas Art Fair). We do not claim hospitals, universities, or “all nonprofits.”
Problems Brochure Sites Ignore
Archives, stores, tickets, and a staff that owns day two
The site is also the store and the back office
- FCA: Stripe store for donated works (paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, posters, video). After launch: promo codes, shipping, order workflows, reporting. The operating system for an active arts retail program.
Ticketing, CRM, and exhibitor self-service
Dallas Art Fair is public marketing plus online ticketing plus a custom CRM plus a separate Exhibitor Portal.
- 90+ galleries manage accounts, profiles, and online viewing rooms year-round.
- 225K+ annual visitors. 9+ year partnership.
- Portal stack: TanStack Router/Query, React, TypeScript, Vite, MSSQL + Firebase.
Photography and motion without killing performance
- FCA: carousels, slideshows, high-res galleries; mobile-performant; screen-reader accessible.
A small staff owns day-two publishing
- Slice-based Prismic: FCA’s 2026 Benefit Exhibition assembled without engineering.
- Dallas Art Fair exhibitors update their own presence so the fair team is not the bottleneck.
How We Work
How we work with arts and nonprofit teams
Often a three-way: their design partner, their small staff, us. Same model as the FCA and Dallas Art Fair case studies.
Grants, recipients, exhibitions, exhibitors, ticket types, then the public templates.
If the org sells art or tickets, that is not a plugin we bolt on later.
Team led visual language on FCA. Slant Partners provided direction on Dallas Art Fair. Engineering, CMS, and commerce is the SI role.
Not a launch-and-leave. FCA’s codebase aged into a living product. Dallas Art Fair is 9+ years. Remote-friendly from our Fort Worth HQ; FCA in New York has been supported continuously since 2021.
Work
Arts platforms we have shipped
Archive + store
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
1,100+ pages, $31.5M+ in grants supported by the platform, 8,000+ grants, Stripe art store, admin tooling, Team design. 2021–ongoing.
View case study$31.5M+
grants supported by the platform
- 1,100+ Prismic pages and 8,000+ searchable grants
- Stripe store for donated, one-of-a-kind works
- Staff assemble new layouts in Prismic without engineering
Ticketing + CRM + portal
Dallas Art Fair
Public marketing, online ticketing, custom CRM, and a separate Exhibitor Portal. 90+ galleries, 225K+ annual visitors, 9+ year partnership.
View case study9+
years
- Online ticketing next to the public site
- Custom CRM for the fair team
- Year-round exhibitor portal for 90+ galleries
Technology
Chosen for editorial flexibility, not novelty
- Azure
- Firebase
- Handlebars
- MSSQL
- Node.js
- Prismic
- React
- Stripe
- Tailwind
- TanStack Start
- TypeScript
- Vite
FAQ
Questions arts teams ask
Yes. FCA assembles new layouts in Prismic. Dallas Art Fair exhibitors edit their own profiles.
Yes. Team on FCA; Slant Partners provided direction on Dallas Art Fair. Engineering, CMS, and commerce is the SI role.
The FCA store is built around unique works and medium-based browsing, with Stripe checkout.
Dallas Art Fair: ticketing, CRM, and a separate exhibitor portal. That is the product.
HQ in Fort Worth. FCA is New York, supported continuously since 2021. See Web development in New York.
The organization. No WordPress lock-in, no proprietary page builder.
Keep Going
Related services, process, and reading
Services
- Custom CMS and data systems
Grant archives, exhibitions, and exhibitor records.
- Web design and development
Public sites, often from a design partner’s files.
- Custom ecommerce and ticketing
Unique inventory, tickets, and checkout.
- Web application development
- Mobile web and responsive
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What the staff cannot do today in the CMS or the back office. A technical conversation, not a pitch.
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