DeviantART (also known as dA) is a website widely known as an online art marketplace by today's artists as a place to display or sell their works of art art. The site allowed artists to upload their original works for the public to see and perhaps others to purchase. The deviantART community has dramatically influenced many contemporary artists to now rely on the use of an online gallery to both exhibit and sell their works instead of depending on a gallery in the offline world. deviantART has caused a change in the way the economy revolves around the art market and world. This occurs through its adoption in the art world, its uses and its effects on the art market. One of the main sources that will be mostly referenced will be an interview conducted between deviantArt creator, Angelo Sotira and author Daniel Perkel in Daniel's article "Making Art, Creation Infrastructure: deviantART and the Production of the Web" (2011). of an online art community DeviantART is a popular online art gallery site, which also serves as an art marketplace; but this was not the case when it was first created in the 2000s. Sortia stated that dA was born from “Dimension Music, a music company that was on the verge of collapse” (Perkel, 2011, p. 38). It was originally a Flickr-like site; but as it started to develop over the years, it incorporated many different artistic mediums such as traditional and digital artworks in an effort to encourage many users to join the site. Today it “serves as a community where artists and art lovers are able to use new ways of art to express themselves” (Perkel, 2010, p. 43) and a way to interact with other users in a variety of ways. , such as diaries, pictures or groups. Furthermore, the...... middle of the paper......5, 486-487. Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/15309282/v45i0005/486_disanoaSalah, A., & Salah A., (2013, June). Innovation flow in deviantART: Following artists on an online social networking site. Mind and Society, 12 (1), 137-149. Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/15937879/v12i0001/137_foiidfoaosnsSingh, A. (2009, November). Soft as a whisper. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 29 (6), 4-5, Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/02721716/v29i0006/4_saawZontea, A. (2010). ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE NEW GENERATION OF ARTISTS: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL ART GALLERIES. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 55(2), 117-140. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/869017548?accountid=14771