Arts

Talented creative individuals working in the field of visual, auditory and performance arts

Jenifer Aquino

Jenifer Aquino

Jenifer Pepen Aquino, known by her artist name SirenAi, is a first-generation American of Dominican descent. Growing up in a multicultural environment, Jenifer developed a deep appreciation for history and the arts. These interests led her to explore the world of NFTs, where she became an avid collector, curator, and more recently, a popular emerging AI artist. As a public speaker and writer, AI was a natural fit for SirenAi because the medium allows her to tell stories and express feelings that are universal to the human experience. Her NFT projects explore topics such as spirituality, mythology, history, relationships, and her experience as a Latina woman.

Jenifer Pepen Aquino, known by her artist name SirenAi, is a first-generation American of Dominican descent. Growing up in a multicultural environment, Jenifer developed a deep appreciation for history and the arts. These interests led her to explore... Show more

Angela Ng

Angela Ng

Angela Ng is a Computing Science and Music graduate. In the realm of technology, she is most interested in tech for social good, and in music, making the learning and performance of the arts accessible to the general public. Angela is recipient of multiple scholarships and awards for her endeavors, such as the Prize of Best Individual Assessed Work. She has also had her interdisciplinary research in Improving Deep-Learning-based Optical Music Recognition for Camera-based Inputs presented in the prestigious IEEE AICAS conference 2022, and was also part of the Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Piano Performance Evaluation research team at SNU. Outside of her academic endeavours and her job in the public service, she loves to volunteer, do sports, and meet up with friends over a nice cup of coffee.

Angela Ng is a Computing Science and Music graduate. In the realm of technology, she is most interested in tech for social good, and in music, making the learning and performance of the arts accessible to the general public. Angela is recipient of mu... Show more

Caroline Harroe

Caroline Harroe

I am the CEO of the U.K. Centre of Excellence for self harm & suicide prevention, harmless.org.uk
My experience sees me advising internationally and to Government in relation to mental health and equality. A practicing specialist psychotherapist, I am also an artist and a mum to 5.

Since late 2021 I have been an active creator and collector in the NFT space. A serial social entrepreneur I am compelled to learn and develop but to also enhance the space with my niche skill set. Some describe my role as a safety consultant, offering scrutiny to project/business equality practices for safety and accessibility. I have published broadly, speak internationally and have the equivalent of an MBE for my work.

As an artist, my art overlaps with my professional capabilities, exploring the human experience through creative expression. An eclectic and award-winning artist my work was abandoned for many years due to my own illhealth. Now, after finding the NFT space this creativity has returned and been nurtured, growing a steady following and recently securing a sought after spot in the Nas Academy creator programme.

Alongside the art I create, I advise projects on:
Philanthropic strategy, specifically how they can build ‘doing good’ into their overall strategy and direction,
How to promote wellbeing in all NFT spaces
How safety and safe practice serve everyone well
Business strategy & sustainability
Welfare practices as business sense

I deliver training and support around online safety, incl. discord management & moderation & run a range of National and International Services.

A gay, disabled mum to 5 and foster mum to 1, a survivor of atrocities and carer, I am boundlessly dedicated to compassionate inclusivity and support.

I am the CEO of the U.K. Centre of Excellence for self harm & suicide prevention, harmless.org.uk My experience sees me advising internationally and to Government in relation to mental health and equality. A practicing specialist psychotherapist, I... Show more

Tim Pietrusky

Tim Pietrusky

Developer, Open Source Advocate, Mentor, Speaker, Artist, VJ

Developer, Open Source Advocate, Mentor, Speaker, Artist, VJ Show more

Anna Graf

Anna Graf

Connecting, creating, innovating - NFTs, DAOs and web3 are the future!
After founding a business network for female leaders in northern Germany and helping build a Montessori school (Campus Region Hamburg), Anna Graf discovered her love for decentralized communities and started as a consultant for various NFT projects. She is always looking for sustainable solutions connecting real life and virtual experience. As Director NFT at MISA she onboarded traditional artists and collectors to the space and spread the word about the democratization of the art market and opening it to a wider audience including NFTs, physicals and fractionalized ownership as a speaker on various events all around the world. Now at Arvato Systems - being part of Bertelsmann (Penguin Random House, RTL group, BMG) - she is building the foundation for mass market adoption of NFTs also from the media side.

Connecting, creating, innovating - NFTs, DAOs and web3 are the future! After founding a business network for female leaders in northern Germany and helping build a Montessori school (Campus Region Hamburg), Anna Graf discovered her love for decentr... Show more

Niamh Aughney

Niamh Aughney

NFT Artist & Advisor

NFT Artist & Advisor Show more

Sara nmt

Sara nmt

Sara is the Director of Arts and NFTs at cmorq, Sara’s background as an architect and technical art director allow her to connect the technical and creative worlds in an optimal way. She is a curious learner, after entering the NFT world only recently she launched her own collectibles project of 8 thousand Crypto Birds along with other smaller NFT projects and has been diving deeper everyday into this world!
Painting is her passion, especially with watercolors because of the bright and lively colors. Her imagination is always running wild , wonderful imaginary creatures escape from her mind onto the canvas on a daily basis, and for some reason there is always a bird-like creature popping in her illustrations. With knowledge in traditional painting, Digital art, and 3d modeling, she loves to explore the possibilities of integrating all these into the Crypto world.

Sara is the Director of Arts and NFTs at cmorq, Sara’s background as an architect and technical art director allow her to connect the technical and creative worlds in an optimal way. She is a curious learner, after entering the NFT world only recentl... Show more

Mariana Arrioja

Mariana Arrioja

An award-winning creative and former Fulbright Scholar who has worked with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and top tech startups alike to create new brands, products, and experiences from concept to launch. Originally from Mexico City, Mariana has transformed creative teams inside and out, leading companies into a design-led product innovation space, for her work, she has received numerous awards, including the ACE Award for “Best Launch” by the Accessories Council, the highest accomplishment given in the fashion industry. She believes good design is about connecting and inspiring people to ideas and ideals and her commitment to that is demonstrated by a portfolio that spans industries and disciplines. Formally, she holds a Master of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts and Design from Universidad Iberoamericana. Prior to design, she studied Fine Arts under Maestro Giovanni Ospitali in Florence, and later Paris.

An award-winning creative and former Fulbright Scholar who has worked with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and top tech startups alike to create new brands, products, and experiences from concept to launch. Originally from Mexico City,... Show more

Blakelee Pieroni

Blakelee Pieroni

I am an immersive media art creator. My work involves blending original, large scale oil paintings with orchestrated, psychoactive content.Drawing on the inevitable influences that structure and shape our mental human experience is where I create from. My work encourages viewers to question their identity, their role, their participation, and their observations that correlate with the piece (visual/digital) in front of them. Branching out beyond the physical form requires the objectification of color and concept to move the audience into a posthuman mind frame. Consequently, art and life as a whole will become fluid and balanced, not forced to either be an object or a subject but a vessel within the energies among us equally.

I am an immersive media art creator. My work involves blending original, large scale oil paintings with orchestrated, psychoactive content.Drawing on the inevitable influences that structure and shape our mental human experience is where I create fro... Show more

Nayra Lopez

Nayra Lopez

Graphic designer with 10 years of experience as art director and visual designer in advertising agencies and clients. Currently based in Madrid, Spain.
Passionate about all the elements that lead to achieve a good design, faithful believer that the user experience is the most important thing for a design to work. I believe that creativity benefits from teamwork and giving 200% of myself on a daily basis.

Graphic designer with 10 years of experience as art director and visual designer in advertising agencies and clients. Currently based in Madrid, Spain. Passionate about all the elements that lead to achieve a good design, faithful believer that the ... Show more

GxxnAR/Ken Morrill

GxxnAR/Ken Morrill

Ken is the CDO of The Diner Studio. He works each evening to early morning on the CHUBBY's Burgers NFT series and related metaverse experiences. As he works with the team, he dreams of bringing smiles to the faces of people who bite into CHUBBY's Burgers and hang out in CHUBBY's Food Truck Park.

His background is in fine art dating back to the late 80s as the cartoonist behind Duck Doodles and moved on to fine art painting, public and private murals, and public sculptural works. He holds an associates degree from Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY and a bachelors degree in education and studio art from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC.

He currently teaches middle school visual art in Greenville, SC by day. By night, he tackles the Web3 world with The Diner Studio crew.

Ken is the CDO of The Diner Studio. He works each evening to early morning on the CHUBBY's Burgers NFT series and related metaverse experiences. As he works with the team, he dreams of bringing smiles to the faces of people who bite into CHUBBY's Bur... Show more

Aoife O'Dwyer

Aoife O'Dwyer

Hi, I’m Aoife (pronounced ee-fah). I’m an illustrator, designer and founder based in Ireland. I make work that tries to imagine what could exist outside what the human brain can perceive. I love drawing bright, whimsical, weird cuties, critters & femmes - often all at the same time. I'm big on animated GIFs, using at least 3 emojis in all responses, wholesome, supportive vibes, meaningful connections and the power of web3 communities. Queer fat femme, she/her.

Hi, I’m Aoife (pronounced ee-fah). I’m an illustrator, designer and founder based in Ireland. I make work that tries to imagine what could exist outside what the human brain can perceive. I love drawing bright, whimsical, weird cuties, critters & fem... Show more

Maritza Molina

Maritza Molina

Maritza Molina is a Cuban-born visual artist and photographer, and Art Curator of IRL exhibit Obscura “The World Today” 10K+ NFT Photography Collection, featuring 138 international photographers. A RISD alum, her work has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries in a career that expands twenty years, including The Armory Show NY and The Bass Museum of Art in Miami, published in Miami Contemporary Artists book by Schiffer Publishing, Artforum and Afterimage magazines, and is part of collections worldwide. She is recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts from State of FL and is a CINTAS Fellowship Finalist. Maritza is an active NFT art creative since early 2021, has helped onboard artists into Web3, is a member of Obscura DAO, and an NFT Art Consultant.

Maritza Molina is a Cuban-born visual artist and photographer, and Art Curator of IRL exhibit Obscura “The World Today” 10K+ NFT Photography Collection, featuring 138 international photographers. A RISD alum, her work has exhibited internationally in... Show more

Sammy Arriaga

Sammy Arriaga

Raised in Miami on the eclectic beats that filled the streets, Sammy Arriaga was born behind the mic.

The bilingual singer/songwriter has garnered over 30M+ streams worldwide, 400k followers on TikTok & 12 years of experience in the music industry, The 30-year-old singer songwriter now finds himself serenading those roaming around the blockchain.

“METAGIRL” - Sammy’s genesis collection was released Feb 2022 sold out after reaching the 1500 milestone in under a month. Due to his hard-working nature, Sammy is already working on the next Music NFT for his next web3 love song “PIXELATED”.

Sammy has now sold over 2500 Music NFTs since diving into web3 in Oct 2021.

Follow Sammy across all socials to hear his new music, new NFT updates & more…

Raised in Miami on the eclectic beats that filled the streets, Sammy Arriaga was born behind the mic. The bilingual singer/songwriter has garnered over 30M+ streams worldwide, 400k followers on TikTok & 12 years of experience in the music industr... Show more

Augusto Cavenaghi

Augusto Cavenaghi

Augusto Cavenaghi, is a professional creator and web3 founder with a passion for technology and nature.

His digital signature, duOCELOT, represents his work as an artist and game developer, heavily influenced by cyberpunk, comics, and urban decay. He creates unique games like Sky Harbour Game, blending cyber and crypto elements, using GANs and machine learning. He is inspired by his artistic family and surroundings and aims to create meaningful and unique works, that bring joy not only to his family but also to the wider community. He takes pride in his work and constantly strives to push the boundaries of his craft and innovate in the field of digital art

Augusto Cavenaghi, is a professional creator and web3 founder with a passion for technology and nature. His digital signature, duOCELOT, represents his work as an artist and game developer, heavily influenced by cyberpunk, comics, and urban decay... Show more

Jon Hugo

Jon Hugo

Jon is a Telly Award-winning commercial composer, whose clients include Fidelity Investments, Bunim/Murray Productions, MTV, and Master Lock.

Formerly the Resident Audio Artist for the NFT project Forgotten Ethereal Worlds, Jon collaborates with NFT artists such as Stephen Ong, Trent Shy, Wooden Cyclops, Trevor Shin, Tenebrini, and Vincent Ghoste.

Jon has had his theater work performed at The Signature Theatre, The Bruno Walter Theatre at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, and has been featured in The NY Post.

As a performing songwriter, Jon has played hundreds of shows touring across North America and Europe. In New York, his performances have sold out Rough Trade, Mercury Lounge, and The Studio at Webster Hall. He has been featured in Time Out NY, The Miami Herald, and on Sirius/XM Radio.

Jon is a Telly Award-winning commercial composer, whose clients include Fidelity Investments, Bunim/Murray Productions, MTV, and Master Lock. Formerly the Resident Audio Artist for the NFT project Forgotten Ethereal Worlds, Jon collaborates with N... Show more

Anna Afzal-Gould

Anna Afzal-Gould

Anna is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of themes including British South Asian duality; motherhood and her daughter’s genetic condition; and surrealism. She uses a range of mediums including digital illustration, photography, and painting to push her creative boundaries and produce a range of work that represents the multifaceted experiences of being a working mother of a child with complex needs.

Anna is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of themes including British South Asian duality; motherhood and her daughter’s genetic condition; and surrealism. She uses a range of mediums including digital illustration, photography, and p... Show more

Latrella D Ardis

Latrella D Ardis

Licensed Cosmetologist with 25 years experience in the industry. Career includes collaboration with some of the best stylist in the industry in addition to exposure to exceptional brands of products including my own brand of hair care products. Fulfilling a meaningful art form; enhancing client’s natural beauty, healing and self confidence. Beauty from the inside out!
In addition to this I’m now a licensed Instructor, Hair-loss Practitioner, Evangelist, Inspirational Speaker, Empowerment Speaker and so much more!

2021 Inspirational Speaker and Host
Real Life Experiences Ministries
Clubhouse, Global TV And Radio
Broadcast

2021 Empowerment Speaker and Workshop
Facilitator ( SUCCESSFEST21)

2021/2022 Relaunch Your Life Empowerment Tour

Licensed Cosmetologist with 25 years experience in the industry. Career includes collaboration with some of the best stylist in the industry in addition to exposure to exceptional brands of products including my own brand of hair care products. Fulfi... Show more

Joanna Lim

Joanna Lim

Joanna is a fashion designer, and creative director for 2 fashion labels in Singapore. With that, she created a fashion NFT Project, the 1st fashion brand that is born in the metaverse to bridge the physical and digital world together. She is supportive of independent creators and is building an ecosystem to onboard artists onto web3 spaces while working on digital wearables.

Joanna is a fashion designer, and creative director for 2 fashion labels in Singapore. With that, she created a fashion NFT Project, the 1st fashion brand that is born in the metaverse to bridge the physical and digital world together. She is support... Show more

Bruce Wechtenhiser

Bruce Wechtenhiser

I have been collecting Spider-Man comic books and memorabilia for more than 50 years. My collection and stories of collecting have been featured in various media over the past two years. My emotional connection to the character is the hallmark of my collection. The emotional connection has been strengthened by many cool interactions with comic creators, other collectors, and a family who supports my hobby.
I have also experienced all of Spider-Man’s introductions into various media (cartoons, tv shows, newspaper comic strips, movies, live theater). Another connection to the character: my entire life has been lived in Johnstown, PA, the hometown of Steve Ditko (co-creator of the character).
If someone were to hand me a list of the interwoven "Spidey experiences" from my lifetime, I would never believe it all happened to one person! It's more than just a long series of coincidences. I truly believe that all my "Spidey" connections were part of God's plan for my life.

I have been collecting Spider-Man comic books and memorabilia for more than 50 years. My collection and stories of collecting have been featured in various media over the past two years. My emotional connection to the character is the hallmark of m... Show more

Paulina Cioce

Paulina Cioce

Paulina Cioce started working as a freelance graphic designer in 2010. She enjoys the challenge of transforming brand materials. Paulina is bilingual (English and Spanish) and enjoys splitting her time between Mexico and the US with her husband, Israel.

Paulina Cioce started working as a freelance graphic designer in 2010. She enjoys the challenge of transforming brand materials. Paulina is bilingual (English and Spanish) and enjoys splitting her time between Mexico and the US with her husband, Isra... Show more

Mario Klingemann

Mario Klingemann

Mario Klingemann is an artist who uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to create and investigate systems. He is particularly interested in human perception of art and creativity, researching methods in which machines can augment or emulate these processes. Thus his artistic research spans a wide range of areas like generative art, cybernetic aesthetics, information theory, feedback loops, pattern recognition, emergent behaviors, neural networks, cultural data or storytelling.

He has been active in the field of blockchain-based art since early 2020 and played an instrumental role in the stewardship and emergence of the ecologically responsible and self-governed NFT community Hic et Nunc.

He was winner of the Lumen Prize Gold 2018, received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2020 and won the British Library Labs Creative Award 2015. He was artist in residence at the Google Arts & Culture Lab and has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of AI art. His work has been featured in art publications as well as academic research and has been shown in international museums and at art festivals like Ars Electronica, the Centre Pompidou, ZKM, the Barbican, the Ermitage, the Photographers' Gallery, Colección Solo Madrid, Nature Morte Gallery New Delhi, Residenzschloss Dresden, Grey Area Foundation, Mediacity Biennale Seoul, the British Library and MoMA. He is represented by Onkaos, Madrid and DAM Gallery Berlin.

Mario Klingemann is an artist who uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to create and investigate systems. He is particularly interested in human perception of art and creativity, researching methods in which machines can augment or emulate the... Show more

Xerak Official

Xerak Official

XERAK, born June 18, 1974 in Bagnolet, is a digital artist and French composer, active since the 90s. He declines his identity in several fields of creation such as pixel art, comics, illustration and electronic music. Since the beginning of 2021 he has discovered the potential of blockchain, NFTs and augmented reality. He adapts his playful and colorful universe through “phygital” works. Exhibited at the Cryptoart event, at the IHAM gallery and at the Schwab gallery, he is also the creator of the first NFT Psycho Gum comic with augmented reality content inside. Present both in our reality but also in different metaverses such as Cryptovoxel or OnCyber, his creations feature strange overexcited characters whose goal is to make us shake our pixels!

XERAK, born June 18, 1974 in Bagnolet, is a digital artist and French composer, active since the 90s. He declines his identity in several fields of creation such as pixel art, comics, illustration and electronic music. Since the beginning of 2021 he ... Show more

Dave Pabellon

Dave Pabellon

Dave Pabellon is a graphic designer. He constantly pursues endeavors that connect his graphic design practice with social empowerment through the studio and classroom environment. He has mentored and instructed in the non-profit sector (Marwen, Bayview Hunters Point Center of Art and Technology, and Project Osmosis), instructs at the university level (University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, SAIC, and University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana), and lectures infrequently for professional design institutions and organizations (AIGA's Design for Democracy, and University & College Designers Association).

Pabellon is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Dominican University and will be joining Columbia College Chicago at the start of 2021 under the same title. In addition he is also a design consultant under the moniker It Is Just Dave LLC, with a focus on partnerships with cultural institutions and contemporary artists/organizations. Most recently he has joined the AIGA Chicago Board serving as Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is a member of the Design As Protest Collective.

Dave Pabellon is a graphic designer. He constantly pursues endeavors that connect his graphic design practice with social empowerment through the studio and classroom environment. He has mentored and instructed in the non-profit sector (Marwen, Bayvi... Show more

Artur Żebrowski "EngineBones"

Artur Żebrowski "EngineBones"

Artur Zebrowski designer, digital nomad, NFT evangelist. Idea-driven person. Founder and creator of "Rotten Rat City - Lost Riders" NFT project. First NFT project promoting custom build motorcycles as NFT physical and NFT digital collectibles.

Artur Zebrowski designer, digital nomad, NFT evangelist. Idea-driven person. Founder and creator of "Rotten Rat City - Lost Riders" NFT project. First NFT project promoting custom build motorcycles as NFT physical and NFT digital collectibles. Show more

Ombeline Rosset

Ombeline Rosset

Art curator at objkt.com

Art curator at objkt.com Show more

Jose Ramos

Jose Ramos

José Ramos is a conceptual landscape photographer, storyteller and psychiatrist from Portugal, currently living in Lisbon. He started his photographic career eighteen years ago, and his images have been published several times in National Geographic printed magazines and other international photography magazines. His work has been exhibited several times in Portugal, as well as featured on Discovery, The Telegraph, CNN Travel, Sony and others. Beyond image making and teaching, he is an Ambassador for conservation projects like OnAMission and Give Back to Nature, and has also collaborated with many international photography and technology brands.

His works are sold as large format fine art prints worldwide and are now also available for sale as exclusive 1/1 NFTs, joined by high quality large format prints.

Strongly focusing on long exposure technique and storytelling, his images are multi-layered, from the immediate attention-grabbing natural scenes with exquisite light, to the symbolic details of archetypal natural elements, along with the written reflections accompanying each artwork.

Dividing his time between the two careers as a professional photographer and a physician specialized in psychiatry, José feels that there is a strong creative synergy between both paths, with the commonalities and differences of each discipline mutually enriching and fostering his artworks. On one hand the lessons taught by Nature have always been precious for the relationship with his patients and, in parallel, his professional experience running Photo-Therapy projects with patients showed him how powerful photographs can be as a catalyst to access and discover deep emotions within.

All his images have a deep embedded concept and associated story, focused on the relationship between Humankind and Nature. Conservation, ecology, existentialism, awareness, spirituality, emotion and contemplation are some of the most important themes José tries to explore through his images.

José Ramos is a conceptual landscape photographer, storyteller and psychiatrist from Portugal, currently living in Lisbon. He started his photographic career eighteen years ago, and his images have been published several times in National Geographic ... Show more

Marta Sanchez

Marta Sanchez

I'm an architect, tradicional and digital artist. I have been drawing since I was a little girl and I combine my life as a separated mother with my work as an architect, in my own company, and Studio of architecture, and my digital drawings.
I entered the world of nft world a year ago and sharing my art with the people I have met has been what helps me the most every day to amplify the ideas that I apply every day in all aspects of my life. Creating a community of people who love dragons is my big dream.

I'm an architect, tradicional and digital artist. I have been drawing since I was a little girl and I combine my life as a separated mother with my work as an architect, in my own company, and Studio of architecture, and my digital drawings. I ... Show more

Federico Fauli

Federico Fauli

Artist and Architect blending boundaries between Art and Architecture, between the Digital and the Physical Space. He has worked at Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Zaha Hadid and BIG, while his works have been exhibited internationally, most recently at both the Venice and Seoul Biennale. Professor of an NFT Course at the London Architectural Association since 2021

Artist and Architect blending boundaries between Art and Architecture, between the Digital and the Physical Space. He has worked at Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Zaha Hadid and BIG, while his works have been exhibited internationally, most recently ... Show more

Thais Portilho

Thais Portilho

Thais Portilho aka Selkie is a PR specialist with 20 years of experience and a Psychology and Computer Science PhD student, developing a Machine Learning system to diagnose mental health conditions. She has been a traditional and digital artist and NFT collector for nearly 2 years. She has sold 1/1 pieces to some of the biggest collectors in the space.

Thais Portilho aka Selkie is a PR specialist with 20 years of experience and a Psychology and Computer Science PhD student, developing a Machine Learning system to diagnose mental health conditions. She has been a traditional and digital artist and N... Show more

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