Artists: Let's Start a Challenge Based Art DAO

You want to be an artist or a designer.

• Develop Skills
• Complete Personal Projects
• Get Commissions
• Earn a Living
• Grow a Following
• Share your Skills.

You know that some of the greatest creative groups that have come to be have taken place within collective environments of people that share similar levels of competence and investment.

• Warhol's Factory
• The Beatniks from San Franciscio, CA
• The French Impressionists / Intellectuals
• The No Wave Movement in Brooklyn, NY.
• Famous English Novelists.
• The Ethereum Community and various cryptocurrency project DAOs

But it's difficult, and you're busy, you don't have enough money to get started, and you're not sure how to make all of the pieces fit together.

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Several Discord Servers have made an attempt to create this sort of creative community, and several projects have a vested interest in cultivating this level of collaboration among artists.

CypherCthonic - https://discord.gg/Z4K4sKR
Dirty Business - Invite Only NSFW Server
Rebrand - https://discord.gg/ryCGpur
The Patreon Server - http://discord.gg/invite/patreon

• Tribes here on Steemit like #Palnet and #hive-156509 come to mind as potential candidates.

http://minnowpond.org/

The projects involved are:
Steemit.com
Memefactory.io
Colony.io
Golem Project
SuperRare.co
KnownOrigin.io
Opensea
MakersPlace

I'm sure there are others that would work within this outline.

Rebrand is restructuring their server at the moment, and I have a proposal for a leveling system that is designed to fund the base level of an Art DAO, and cultivate skill development.

I've also shared this around other discord communities, and would be pleased to have anyone take up this model or a similar model as a way of cultivating a set of decentralized art collectives.

Also, as a note, I'm new to the Steemit Community, so if anyone can help educate me further, I would welcome the discussion.

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"Let's create a Challenge Based Art DAO"

Create a Steemit Account, and make one high value post consecutively for 30 days, sharing your artwork, design process, current educational efforts.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 1.

Create a MemeFactory Account and submit one original, and well designed Meme into MemeFactory each day for 30 Days.

In order to pass this level, you must get at least 15 Memes accepted into the District Registry, place them on the Marketplace, and promote those memes on Steemit and Cent.co.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 2.

Launch a Quickstarter Project. [or other viable short term kickstarter challenge.]

Take 30 Days to plan, launch execute and fulfill your first Kickstarter project. The actual campaign ought to be somewhere between 7 and 21 days.

[By this time, you ought to know whether or not you'd like to share educational / promotional posts about your campaign on Steemit, or if you'd like to integrate NFTs from MemeFactory as backer rewards.]

Your campaign must meet its goal, and fulfill rewards to a minimum of 15 Backers.

If you do not meet your goal, or reach the minimum number of Backers for your campaign, you need to try again.

If you have successfully met your goal, you must create a Newsletter on Mailchimp [or another equal service] where you take the email addresses of those backers who are invested in your project, and share relevant updates for your work in future projects.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 3.

Start a Patreon and get 10 Patrons.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 4.

Create a Youtube Channel and post one quality ~ 5 to 10 minute video a day for 30 days.

You will want to experiment with different types of videos that pertain to your specific trajectory as an artist.

You will want to share these videos to your audience base, post them on Steemit, and link your Patreon account at the end of each video segment.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 5.

Create a Skillshare Account, and make one Premium Course per week for 1 Month.

Promote your account on your Youtube channel, and upload what courses you can to the Skillshare Free network based on your Youtube work in the previous month.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 6.

Create a Teespring store and design and promote one shirt a day for 30 days.

Promotion ought to be paid, and targeted toward instagram infuencers in a niche that you have decided.

Aim for accounts with 20k to 60k followers. Each of these promotional outreach experiments will cost you between $15 and $25. This will be your first major loss potential investment, and an expensive part of your journey.

Each experiment you do ought to be limited to $25 in budget, and you ought to test and see if your product is successful or not prior to continuing. Then make adjustments, and try again.

These 30 days do not have to be consecutive, but it will likely help if you take a block of time and focus on making this your priority experiment.

Utilize a Facebook Pixel, share the T-shirts with your own audience, as well as the audiences you've selected via instagram influencers.

All of that posting you've been doing on Steemit ought to be sufficient to cover these advertisement costs.

When completed, you will be inducted into Level 7.

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By this time, you ought to have built a small audience, and perhaps even raised enough income to pay your bills from month to month. You've made it farther than most - pat yourself on the back.

Following this, there are other challenges that could be explored:

• Run a Non-Profit Charity Fundraiser event on Indiegogo.
• Crowdsource a DAO Challenge to support your favorite Crypto Project.
• Collaborate with another competent and mutually invested creator on a project you both want to explore.

There are a lot of options - but by this time you'll be well versed within quite a few different options that are available to artists and designers.

Along the way, you may find that you can bolster your income with commission work, but these exercises are designed to get you to think outside of the sort of commission work where you are simply fulfilling a client's requests.

If you do all of this work, you will get more commission clients as a byproduct of demonstrating your competence, but you'll also gain some level of creative independence which will allow you to experiment with more projects that you feel passionate about.

The final step in this process would be Contributing financially to an Art DAO via Colony.
Some percentage of your earnings each month can be automatically placed within a transparent and collectivized guild account, which can then be used to sponsor projects which help furthering the purposes of the DAO.

When you've managed to develop the skills necessary to fund your own life, and you've come to the understanding that capital is required in order to do interesting things in business, and that crowdsourcing that capital is the most affordable way to do so - then putting some portion of your ETH earnings within a collectively managed DAO might not seem like such a frightening idea.

Think of this money as seed capital for community voted collaborative projects, or a guild bank that can be used to provide further education or support for members.

The ultimate goal here is an art collective - and collectivizing a small portion of income is a solid way to provide the resources necessary to make that community cohesion happen, and make sure that everyone involved has some skin in the game.

My thinking is that the skills listed above, will make you into an artist or designer that actually has something to offer to an art collective - at which point, I think the financial contribution toward an organization of similarly invested people would be an obvious choice.

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Get started on your challenges - starting with 30 days of Steemit posting [Challenge №1], and then share your results in the discord servers linked above.

I think you'll find it's worth your time.

[Note: Original Article here on Medium: ]
https://medium.com/@rootdraws_91984/artists-lets-start-a-challenge-based-art-dao-89b6b356e060?sk=836a42f9449ebd8a0bc50a9538f5c0cd

Could be useful as there are more links there.

Cheers.

PS - I made a Discord Server, and I'm calling it Hierophant DAO.

It's basically a gamified art business education guild where I lead by experimental example, and people can follow along.

You can join here:
https://discord.gg/7xdY2Wb