Header Symbol Credit score: “Manifest New Worlds” by way of Heather Timm
The previous 12 months noticed the crypto network at wide throughout the perfect of the highs to a couple sudden lows. Via all of it, we maintained our determination to our network of creators, and — regardless of the marketplace shifts — we’re completing 2022 even more potent than when it began.
Lately we wish to have fun one of the most milestones we handed alongside the best way.
We Grew
We began 2022 with a team of workers of nineteen folks and feature since grown to 49 staff, together with our new CEO Craig Palmer, previously of Fandom.com.
We Constructed
We’ve made numerous platform and product enhancements over the past 12 months. To call only a few, we…
We Labored Globally
Engaged with our network, we prioritized alternatives that allowed us to polish a gentle on areas and folks that haven’t gotten their due consideration within the western artwork international. We’re thankful to all of our companions who made this paintings imaginable with large- and small-scale exhibitions of labor from creators internationally, together with:
We Gave Again
2022 was once a tumultuous 12 months; we used artwork to offer again via charity occasions. We requested artists to give a contribution paintings to exhibitions like Sunflowers for Ukraine and Overturned, an exhibition for Girls’s Rights, and MakersPlace donated its proceeds to charities supporting those reasons.
We additionally partnered with Excedrin at the Equivalent Bytes initiative. This unique grant program recruited 100 feminine artists to the NFT house and supported the minting and buy in their first NFT.
We Labored With Our Group
In 2022, we made our network of creators and creditors our primary precedence. To do that, we introduced our weekly Shows collection, elevating up remarkable inventive paintings from throughout our website.
As a part of our new Spotlights collection, we interviewed and promoted 50+ world emerging stars within the crypto artwork international.
For our maximum passionate creditors, we began our Concierge Program, an unique, seamless, white-glove revel in for our best creditors in search of a extra personalised virtual artwork buying groceries revel in.
And simply final month, we hosted our first GIF-Giving match, which proficient open-edition GIF art work from a few of our best creators to creditors on Black Friday weekend.
This month, ran our first community-submitted, community-voted exhibition, the MakersPlace Potluck Tournament.
We Have been IRL (After all!)
We had a terrific time assembly such a lot of individuals of our network in actual existence at occasions throughout the US and the arena, particularly at:
- Crypto Artwork Week Asia
- NFT LA
- MOCA Cleveland
- NFT NYC
- Matt Gondek’s Struggle Membership opening at Tagliatelle Gallery in NYC
- NFT SF & 0xpo Convention
- Miami Artwork Week
- Marco Santini Signature Sequence opening at The Lighthouse Gallery in Puerto Rico
The Yr Forward
2023 guarantees to be a perfect 12 months for the MakersPlace network. In January, we can release our exterior contract make stronger (together with Manifold!) and our podcast, which is able to extend the Spotlights interviews so we will be able to get to grasp and advertise much more creators.
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