Explore the Arts - Columbus ArtsCard and ColumbusArts.com Launched

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

www.columbusarts.com

GRIP Technology partnered with the Greater Columbus Arts Council to launch its ColumbusArts Card program and redesign ColumbusArts.com.

ColumbusArts Card is a new program aimed at increasing arts attendance by people under 40-years-old. This annual membership program, will give members discounts to arts and culture events across the city, along with discounted memberships to museums and organizations. GRIP developed the online member program functionality, including secure membership purchase and renewal, unique member login and profile and the administrative tools for GCAC to maintain the program.

ColumbusArts.com was redesigned and redeveloped to serve as the resource for cultural events and organizations in Central Ohio. Key functional updates include:

• Cleaner, more eye catching design.
• Cutting edge search function that allows users to search for "what" they want, "where" they want it and/or "when" they want to attend. Search results can be sorted by name, popularity or date. The events are pulled from the Ohio EventFinder (produced by GRIP) that contains more than 15,000 events held by more than 2,000 organizations.
• Ability to highlight featured events from organizations throughout the state in a visually appealing manner.
• Inclusion of popular events based on the most popular searches for events through the Ohio EventFinder.
• Event tags for arts and cultural categories that are organized by their popularity in searches.

Visit the site now.