Individuals with different personality types approach art in vastly different ways, and it is this phenomenon that we are looking to explore in the 'art and personality' column. If you show one of your pieces at our site, you may include a short bio and a link to a website of your choice, where people can see more of your work. Although we receive a modest number of visitors (approximately 200 folks a day), there is a steady stream of people coming to the site, and it is a select group that tends to have an interest in the arts. In presenting work at our site, you may use your name or a pseudonym. Your participation will cost you nothing, and there's no 'catch'. We are simply interested in art, how people approach this work, and what, if anything, this has to do with personality type. In order to participate, you would have to provide us with: a computer file that displays your artwork (a '.jpg' file for visual art - approximately 320x415 pixels in size, and less than 50k - or a 'midi' or similar file for music). You do not lose your rights to the material, and the file will not be used in any other way than the one that is described here. a short description of how you approach your art. We can provide you with assistance in doing this, if you want. your MBTI and Enneagram types. These are the two personality systems that we are using. If you don't know what type you are, you can find out by answering an on-line questionnaire that will be provided to you, free of charge (in exchange for your participation). These two types of personality indicators are not 'tests', and do not presume to evaluate you in any way - they simply measure your preferences, and establish your personality type on the basis of these preferences. We hope to succeed in inviting artists with a wide range of personality types to particpate. In addition to persons who make their living doing art, we will display the work of beginners and also people who are more interested in the 'process' (for therapeutic or self-growth reasons) than the 'product'. We plan to display fine and commercial artists, illustrations, computer art and animations - persons involved in creating any form that can be adequately displayed in this medium (the internet). You may sample the work that is displayed in our current issue by visiting the Journal, at "http://tap3x.net/EMBTI/journal.html", scrolling down the front page to 'art and personality type', and clicking on those words. We ask site visitors who wish to guess the type of the artists displaying their work at our site to limit their comments to specifics about THEIR experience of the artist's work, and refrain from any temptation to assess its 'objective worth'. So individuals who present their work here can do so with the expectation of a safe environment; their work will not be critiqued or evaluated. If you are interested in participating, or want to know more, please let us know, at art@tap3x.net. Pat and John