Space name / Team name:
•Crypto Native Art Collective and Crypto Native Art
"Weaving the web of Indian Country” into the world wide web by creating a village expressing the soul of North American Indian Art and Indian Country.*
Name of primary contact: Sheree Lincoln
Names of additional Space admins: James “Kingsawin” Reed - Tongass Tribe of the Tlingit People and Alaskan Native
SuperRare username(s) of everyone who will be a Space admin:
@sheree Sheree Lincoln
@kingsawin James “Kingsawin” Reed ~ The Crypto Native
Short bio of you and/or your team:
Sheree Lincoln is a live aboard Sailor, Wellness Coach, Web Designer and an Artist who paints in fluid acrylic with quick, vibrant strokes of color. She attended The New York School of Interior Design and also has a Web Design Certificate with over 20 years of internet marketing and visual concepts experience. She was featured in Yahoo Internet Life Magazine’s Sites to watch in 1997 and is an entrepreneur, early adopter, visionary thinker and former owner of 2 art galleries.
James “Kingsawin” Reed is an Alaskan Native, Sailor, a 4th generation Formline Artist and Shipwright of the Tlingit People from the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The Tlingit and Haida tribes create Pacific Northwest Formline Art in both print and carving as demonstrated by their carving, totem poles, canoes and weaving. Kingsawin, a 4th generation shipwright and artisan, is an emerging artist who is retiring from boat building this year to become a culture bearer for his people and to create art full time honoring the tradition of his Grandfather Charles Brown, a Master Totem Pole Carver, who many recognize as one of the lead carvers on the the Ketchikan Totem Park Restoration Projects in Alaska and the totem pole in Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington.
The Crypto Native Gallery website is under construction with a launch date of November 12th.
Website & Social Media Links:
Website: https://cryptonativeart.com
Twitter: @cryptonativeart
Instagram: @cryptonativeart
Facebook: @cryptonativeart
OpenSea: @cryptonativeart
We do have user names as spaceholders on Crypto.com and Rarible and Discord allowing for further development. We are primarily focused on SuperRare right now and thankful for the opportunity to be a finalist.
Discord.com: CryptoNativeArt#7586
For 2020 Kingsawin featured some of his formline art studies through the website and social media for A Pony On My Boat and Etsy for Facemasks during the Pandemic and a clothing line. He will not be releasing his more advanced art and sculptures until 2022 so he will have time to focus on developing this SuperRare Gallery Project.
www.aponyonmyboat.com
Insta: @aponyonmyboat
Facebook: aponyonmyboat
Etsy: APONYONMYBOAT
Summary/manifesto of your Space.
• The Crypto Native Art Collective will establish itself as a Native American NFT Collectibles Art Gallery, honoring our ancestors, by utilizing the traditional power of the collective for North American Indigenous Art for emerging and established artists.
• This SuperRare Space will be creating sovereignty as understood from a place of spirit by weaving Indigenous Art Into The Web through a collective. Sovereignty and provenance are important components for Artists and especially Native Artists.
• We believe in creating a decentralized art world where the Indigenous cultural capital produced, under the broad category of Native American Art, can be digitally marketed as NFT Crypto Art for the benefit of Native American Artists from the Pacific Coast to the East Coast, in Canada and the United States.
What is the unique value prop / elevator pitch?
Indigenous Artists and culture bearers will have the opportunity to showcase their works and be part of a larger village of Indigenous artists bringing awareness of the art from over recognized 1000 tribes creating a village expressing the soul of North American Indian Art and Indian Country.
We will be sharing the story and the history of our art and our people. Co-founder James “Kingsawin” Reed is very excited about “Creating Sovereignty as understood from a place of spirit by weaving Indigenous Art Into The Web
through a collective”.
• The manner in which SuperRare artworks are minted, directly by the original artist, will create a digital legacy for Native American Artists through blockchain art. NFT art and The Crypto Native Art Space will globalize and re-establish trade routes for the art in the tradition of the Native Trade Routes that were used for thousands of years.
• Since the curators of Crypto Native Art are artists themselves, and are experienced at working with artists, with one being an indigenous artist and the other a web designer, we have the tools and ability to promote this new cutting edge digital format and community. We have the technical skills to grow successfully as the NFT Crypto Art format becomes more mainstream. We will also plan to create a positions for Native Americans with degrees in curation, digital media and more.
• Kingsawin is also one of the Grandchildren of the famous Tlingit Master Carver on the Totem Pole Projects in Ketchikan, Alaska. We will be creating The Charles Brown Endowment to benefit member Tlingit and Haida Artists with a portion of the Galleries percentage.
• We also have the skills to work with select artists, coordinate and promote drops, and help them build their own following and collector base as we grow Crypto Native Art online with the help of this CryptoArt Space.
What type of art will you focus on?
• Crypto Native Art we will feature the art of established and emergent Indigenous Artists, traditionally known as American Indian Art and the Visual Art of the Americas, who will have the opportunity to showcase their works and be part of a larger community of Indigenous artists bringing awareness of the art from over recognized 500 tribes on United States and over 600 tribes in Canada. We will also include artists with verifiable heritage, that may not be tribal members, who can provide proof of lineal descendancy. We will also include the Inuit and other Indigenous peoples; focusing on North America initially.
How will your Space stand out among the crowd?
• Our Crypto Native Art Space will be one of the first to feature art created by North American Indigenous Peoples in a digitally curated space that will provide surety that buyers/collectors are obtaining what was traditionally known as Native American Art Or Native Indian Art, with a digital provenance under the title North American Indigenous Art and North American Native Art – Not Native American Style Art. We will feature traditional art and contemporary art.
Describe you/your team’s experience curating and promoting artwork:
• Sheree Lincoln has created two physical art galleries in her art career. One featuring over 25 emerging artists and one featuring her own paintings and the works of two internationally recognized sculptors. She has presented and sold art at Art Shows and Art Walks for both herself and other artists which gives her a keen eye regarding collecting and sales.
Describe you/your team’s experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc.
• Our team has utilized internet marketing, including social media and live events to expand artist’s following. Sheree Lincoln has participated in ArtPrize twice and collaborated with artists around the world. She was a gallery owner representing over 25 artists including national and internationally recognized sculptors. As a web designer and marketing consultant for over 20 years she has experience with online auctions and other art shows. She also served on an arts council board for over 3 years planning events, setting up art shows and helping to curate the gallery for the arts council. Her work creating and teaching educational art classes for adults and youth also provides valuable experience. Both Sheree and Kingsawin have been making art for over 40 years.
Are there new artists you’d like to bring into the Space in the first six months?
• Yes and we will be reaching out to many more artists in the first six months.
What is your relationship to them?
• Family and Tribal members starting with Tlingit and Haida and other First Nations cultures and North American tribal people.
Are there any artists already in the CryptoArt space that you are planning to work with for this Space?
• Yes.
+David Neel - Kwakuital - Vancouver BC
An established and prolific Photographer, Northwest Coast Native Jeweler and Artist working in the Kwakiutl / Haida style who has been minting NFT Art and has works in many museums and has written three books about indigenous life.
Website: www.davidneel.com
Twitter: @NativeJeweler
Insta: @davidneelartist
OpenSea: opensea.io/Native-American-NFT
+Blake Angeconeb - Lac Seul First Nation - Canada
*Blake Angeconeb is an established Anishinaabe woodlands artist who hails from Treaty 3 territory. Blake’s primary practice is blending the school of woodlands art with pop culture references.
Twitter: @blakeangeconeb
Insta: @blakeangeconeb/
Foundation: @blakeangeconeb
+Quinn Hopkins - Anishinaabe - Toronto, Ontario
Quinn Hopkins is an emerging Digital, AR, VR artist and Painter, Rock-painter and Mural artist. He is a student at OCAD U studying Drawing & Painting for his Bachelor of FineArts. He was recently featured on CBC for his involvement with the innovative non-fungibletokens (NFT’s) and empowering other indigenous artists with the technology.
SuperRare: @indigital
Website: www.quinnhopkinsart.com/
Twitter: @IndigitalETH
Insta: @indigital.eth
Foundation: foundation.app/@Indigital
+Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich - Northern Arapaho - Wyoming
Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich, an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho in Wyoming, has been producing art in various mediums since the 1990s. Her contemporary art reflects her plains heritage, her mother’s Chippewa/Metis ancestry, along with a Pacific Northwest Coastal influence from the Puget Sound area of Washington where she grew up.
Website: www.10buffalos.com/
Instagram: @10buffalosartwrk/
+Rico Worl - Tlingit/Athabacan - Juneau, Alaska
Rico Lanáat’ Worl is a Tlingit/Athabacan designer. His work speaks to the experience of living with traditional values as a modern person. He is the founder of Trickster Company along with his sister, artist Crystal Worl, which strives to promote innovative indigenous design. Rico is the designer of the Raven Story Stamp for the US Postal Service. He and Crystal recently collaborate with Google to celebrate Native Heritage Month with Google Pixel Wallpapers.
Website: trickstercompany.com/
Instagram: @ricoworl
+Owen L Oliver - Coast Salish - Washington
Owen L. Oliver (Quinault / Isleta Pueblo) comes from the people of the Lower Columbia River, Salish Sea, and Southwest Pueblos. He grew up in Ketchikan, Alaska and Seattle where in 2021 he graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in American Indian Studies and Political Science. Through these disciplines he’s been able to create and manage projects that range from community work, art, education, and influence on local and federal policy. His work is concentrated in Indigenous education and cultural representation, a path that he’s learned from his connection to Tribal Canoe Journeys.
Website: owenloliver.com/indigenous-walking-tour
Instagram: @owenloliver/
Have they committed to participating yet?
• 1 through 6 above have said yes. We have also reached out to others who we have not heard back from yet.
Supaman AKA Billy ills, Jarrod Galanin, Bunkhaus, Ben Pease, MrWereWulf, HarrisSisters, Emily Kewwageshig, Larry Yazzie as well as the First Nations Foundation, Collective49, Israel Shotridge…
Please provide any additional details you can about how you plan to operate this Space; e.g. cadence of exhibitions, auction strategy, number of artworks, other ideas for promoting your art and artists, etc.
• As we build our Artist base we will be developing our format. Our methods will be created and developed in communication with our artists and include their ideas into the cadence, auction strategy and ideas for promotion.
• Including our Native Artists in this process of creating collective celebrates including Indigenous traditional values as we expand globally into the digital trade routes. It also echoes the manner in which decisions are made for SuperRare as a whole.
•As we build our artist base our methods will be enhanced by communication with the tribal Governance and or Artist Councils of each nation with regard to the art selection process.
•With each purchase collectors will be supporting a specific tribe and the tribal artist within that Indian Country as well as the First Nations and American Native Peoples as a whole.
• The timeline for our drops may be based on the traditional calendar celebrations of our tribal people.
How do you plan to structure commission rates for the artists who release in your Space?
• 5% SR DAO Commission
10% Storefront Commission
85% Artist Royalty
We believe 10% is an acceptable based to include the support that may be necessary to bring an individual artist’s art into the digital realm as an NFT. We will hire graphic designers, creative services for staffing or contracted them to be efficient in our curation, use the best techniques and create jobs for Native Americans. We plan to support our artists by assisting in marketing through web development and social media to build a following for their art. There are a lot of avenues, not unlike the trading trail, for grants through Native Agencies and other programs for First Nations Artists to help the Crypto Native Art Collective gallery grow.
• Our featured Artists, as a collective, will decide where to donate or grant a percentage of the income to groups or individual artist’s for educational programs to assist them in moving in the NFT Digital Art World and becoming part of the Crypto Native Art Tribe.
To you, what is the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology?
• We finally have a two sided coin that serves the artist and the art buyer. It takes meta data and watermarking, to a new level, without intruding on the art itself.
Where do you see the NFT and CryptoArt space in five years?
• Exploding and morphing into uniquely curated art galleries and communities changing the way we look at and market digital art as well as increasing its value as collectible CryptoArt and traditional art.
If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why?
• Indian Fry Bread because it is a blank canvas that can be enhanced through creativity and is not limited by one particular spice or topping just like art is not limited by one particular medium or format. Equally the Indigenous Art of the Americas is not limited to one tribe or people. Fry Bread Art by Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich of 10 Buffalos.
Anything else you’d like the community to consider?
• We are very aware of the security issues of digital art and provenance and we are extremely excited that NFT’s and this platform has been needed for a long time. We are excited to continue the conversation and development of a North American Indigenous NFT Crypto Art Space by creating a Space for Crypto Native Art that is verifiable as legitimate visual art of Native Americans and indigenous people. We may consider expanding inclusion of the art of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
• Please be aware that we only found out about SuperRare Space 4 days before the submission date and are just now bringing artists in. Currently our reach is to Pacific Northwest Artists because our co-founder is Native Alaskan and a member of Tlingit Haida and Sea Alaska. We continue to reach out to tribes and indigenous people all over the American Continent.
*Quote: "Weaving the web of Indian Country” by Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa - Menominee. Celebrated human rights activist and change-maker.