NFT CURATOR AND DIGITAL ART CONSULTANT

NFT Curation, art creation and drop planning!

I am an NFT artist, curator and educator. I gave my first blockchain and art talk in 2018 at the Gray Area Festival, before the term ‘Non-Fungible Token’ was in wide use. I have been teaching and minting on Etherium, Tezos, and Polygon, but I work with artists to mint and plan drops on all chains. My focus is on conscious curation which is both inclusive and sustainable. As I work with artists on all blockchains and at all career levels. I am blockchain agnostic: I believe that every work should be minted on the chain that best supports its message and goals. As an NFT consultant I work on building roadmaps covering every stage of NFT drops from design to launch.

I guide artists and brands create impactful NFT Drops in the following ways:

  • 📊 NFT Launch plans & community strategy

  • 💸 Defining a royalty strategy and strategically pricing NFTs to maximize return

  • 🎨 Planning what artwork to mint

  • ⛓ Strategizing blockchain and platform to suit the needs of work

I currently work as the Director of Creative Affairs for the NFT San Francisco Conference, happening October 30th - 31st, 2022. I am curating the artwork of 100 NFT artists and NFT collections to show at multiple venues throughout San Francisco. My own NFT artwork is created under moniker, @nikistyxx.

 
 

My NFT artwork focuses on surreal, collaged, animated landscapes

✨ Learn more about ‘Unattainable Landscapes’ here.✨

 

NFT DROP curation

BEIJING 2022 NFT DROP

Curation for Chinese, dissident artist, Badiucao’s Beijing 2022 Olympics Protest NFT Drop. It was the first drop of its kind: hundreds of people minted NFTs and wrote protest messages onto the blockchain.

Badiucao’s Beijing 2022 custom mint NFT drop

TERRINE PERCEPTIONS NFT DROP ON DOINGUD

May 2022: I curated the 'Terrine Perceptions’ exhibit on DoinGud, featuring 🏔 ✨ 🌤 #unattainablelandscapes. A portion of the proceeds go to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger. Collab with Gray Area and Design Science Studio

'Terrine Perceptions’ NFT Collection drop on DoinGud,

SCALE: NFT JOURNAL

I created the animated cover art and acted as a writer and editor for Scale. SCALE Multiplier is a collection of 9 writings by, and introducing, the Scale Editorial Board. The writers considered the prompt of scales of writing, from normal to enormous to microscopic, the 6 month process of producing SCALE Multiplier demanded innovation: Reading, Sharing, or Scaling this collection requires that you have one of the 88 limited edition NFT’s to unlock the entire work.

 

NFT WORKSHOPS and talks

NFT WORKSHOP

Created and taught an NFT workshop for the 2021 Gray Area Festival: NFT DIY: Mint Your Art!

At the Oslo Freedom Forum, Badiucao & Laura Shin and I discussed NFTs in political activism. 🎧 Listen Here

Topics included:

  • how the Beijing 2022 NFT drop enabled people to write a message of protest in the blockchain with the launch of his NFT and how this represented the first large mass protest written into the blockchain

  • How Badiucao and I made NFTs to circumvent Chinese censors protesting via messages in the blockchain

  • How I approached the issue of the possibility of having the art taken down

PIXEL ART AND NFT WORKSHOP: SCOTT COOK INNOVATION AWARDS

Designed and taught a pixel art and NFT workshop for the 2022 Scott Cook Innovation Awards on behalf on Intuit.

BLOCKCHAIN AND ART TALK

Intro to Blockchain and Art Opening Talk at the 2018 Gray Area Festival, San Francisco CA.

 

Press and Media

FEATURED BY NBC NOW AROUND NFT DROP

NFT Drop Planning and Curation for Badiucao: Chinese Artist Uses NFT’S For Activism NBC Now

FEATURED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER FOR NFT ART AND CURATION

‘We don’t need to work anymore’: Local artists crack the code of NFTs’ SF Examiner 

THE ARTS TRIBUNE FEATURES MY NFT ART AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

“Nobody gets mad at a photographer for selling prints, and nobody gets mad at a painter for selling a painting, so why are we so upset about a digital artist selling an mp4 or a JPEG?” she asks. “It’s not good or bad; it’s just another way to sell and collect art.” Arts Tribune 

TWITTER SPACES WITH SEERLIGHT - NFT SAN FRANCISCO

Discussing NFT art with Seerlight as part of the NFT San Francisco Conference. 🎧 Listen Here

UNCHAINED PODCAST ON NFTS AND ACTIVISM

Discussing NFTs as activism with Laura Shin and Badiucao at Oslo Freedom Forum on the Unchained Podcast - 🎧 Listen Here