# Create a New Artist Contact

> How to create an artist contact in WrkLst: a normal contact with the artist role, which is what works, inventories, biographies and price factors attach to. This article describes WrkLst 10.

Source: https://support.wrklst.art/contacts/create-a-new-artist-contact
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**How to create an artist contact in WrkLst: a normal contact with the artist role, which is what works, inventories, biographies and price factors attach to. This article describes WrkLst 10.**

## Why artists are created differently

An artist contact is the record that works are attached to, so it usually needs to exist before you can catalogue anything. If you are adding your first work, start here — see [Creating New Artwork](/works/creating-new-artwork).

## Creating the artist

1. Open **Contacts**, choose **Add contact** and fill in the name and contact details as for any contact — see [Create a New Contact](/contacts/create-a-new-contact).
2. Expand the **Inventory artist** section and choose **Mark as inventory artist**.
3. Set the **Status** — **Working with** or **Represented** — and, when **Extend inventory shortcode with artist-specific shortcode (multi-artist inventories)** is switched on under Settings → General Account, the **Artist shortcode for inventory numbers**, the prefix WrkLst uses when it builds inventory numbers for this artist's works. The **Caption name** is how the artist is named in captions when it differs from the contact's name.
4. Choose **Add** (**Save changes** when you edit an existing contact). The section tells you how many inventories the artist is part of, and the record shows each of them; **Manage inventories** opens Settings → Inventories in a new tab to add one — see [Inventories](/settings/inventories).

If you are already in the work form, **Create new artist** adds the artist there and then.

Once an artist has works or belongs to an inventory, the role cannot be removed; the artist stays an artist as long as either is the case. The role is marked with an icon in the contact list, and the **Filter** finds all of them under **Who** → **Artists**.

## What hangs off an artist record

Beyond ordinary contact details, an artist record is the anchor for their works, and it is where the **Biography** belongs: the short bio and the structured CV are maintained in Biographies and can be exported as documents or synchronised with your website through the WordPress plugin or a custom integration, so a CV is updated once and is correct everywhere it appears — see [Biographies](/biographies/biographies). The record also shows **Artist waitlist**, the collectors waiting for a work by the artist in their order — see [Waitlists](/contacts/waitlists) — **Leads for this artist**, where **New lead** starts a lead with the artist, and, if your account has a WrkLst website, a **Website** section: **Show this artist on the website** has to be ticked there, because without it neither the artist nor any of their works is published.

## Price factors

If your prices follow a formula per artist — a factor applied to a work's measurements — the option **Show price factor options for measurements / auto-generate factor-based prices** under Settings → General Account switches it on. The factors themselves, one per artist and type of work, are kept under Settings → Toolbox → **Artist price factors**: **Edit factor** changes one, and **Re-apply factor** recomputes the factor-based prices of all that artist's works of that type in one click, which is handy after you add new works.

## Artists on your phone

If you sync your WrkLst contacts to your phone or computer, artists arrive as a group of their own, alongside collectors and photographers — see [Sync your WrkLst contacts to your phone and computer](/contacts/sync-your-wrklst-contacts-to-your-phone-and-computer).

**Still using WrkLst Classic?** This topic in the Classic documentation: [Create a New Artist Contact](/wrklst-classic/classic-create-a-new-artist-contact)

## Related articles

* [Create a New Contact](/contacts/create-a-new-contact)
* [Creating New Artwork](/works/creating-new-artwork)
* [Inventories](/settings/inventories)
* [Create and Manage Editions](/works/editions)
* [Biographies](/biographies/biographies)
* [Waitlists](/contacts/waitlists)
* [Leads: follow every enquiry from first contact to sale](/leads/leads)
* [Works, artists and exhibitions on your website](/website/works-artists-and-exhibitions-on-your-website)