Interview: NFTIgnition | NFT CULTURE | NFTs and Crypto Art
I connected first with NFT Ignition last year when she found my Damsels collection and I saw her work with Fame Lady Squad. With both of us raised in Minnesota and other life experience connections, I have always felt that she is a warm approachable person with a love for teaching and a desire to help others. Her diverse background pre-Web3 further exemplifies this from her work in education to healthcare to working in carnival (yes, she was a carnie). She understands the humanity behind the technology we all build and brings empathy and compassion to the fore while uplifting others.
Since 2020, she has cemented herself as a pillar in the NFT world co-administrator of the Fame Lady Squad, co-hosted a podcast “From The Blockchain”, built educational materials, founded and curated Women.NFT and has worked on 29 projects and helped over 100 artists create their first piece. When NFTCulture set out to write about collectors, she was on my list of who I wanted to interview, not only because she is one of my collectors as an artist, but also because of how much space and support she gives to so many women from all community in Crypto Art/NFTs. I am grateful that she agreed to this interview.
How did you get into crypto/nfts?
A comment on Facebook under an article that had a paywall titled ‘the second largest transfer of wealth’ because you had to pay for the article. I simply scanned the comments to see if there was any good information there. Every single comment was about crypto, mostly Bitcoin. I scrolled through hundreds of comments before I decided “Idk what Bitcoin is, but I need some.”
I first started stamping NFTs in 2020 because I thought it was a cute way to flirt with a guy I had a crush on. Over time I sent him maybe dozens of NFTs that were mostly selfies, but artistic selfies. It sent me down a whole rabbit hole of working with artists and commissioning my own works/introducing them into the NFT space, which led to me creating projects or helping artists create their own projects. Not only did I end up right where I needed to be, in the middle of the NFT space, but even better, I recently started dating the guy I sent all those NFTs to.
My main focus right now is creating digestible learning materials for all learning types and figuring out a way to scale it. We don’t have one way to teach math, we have at least 8 ways to teach just multiplication, we need the same resources for the NFT room. Long term this goal includes summer camps for kids, they would be a choose your adventure type camp where you can choose to learn about everything from 3d digital art/blender, to contract auditing, to archery and swimming. I want a wide range of web3 content but also digital art and mix it with all the typical summer camp activities. I would love to see schools incorporate this type of course, but as a former teacher I know it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
How did you get involved with Fame Lady Squad and would you like to share a bit about your journey with that project?
When FLS was launched it was run by a team of all men who lied and claimed they were all women, after this was found out the community was destroyed. Artchick actually reached out and convinced them to send the project to the community, and then the community chose me, boredbecky, and data to be the ones to take it from there. It was really a wild ride to take over a project with 0 funding, which had a large active community behind it.
As an avid collector, what advice would you give to projects/artists? What advice would you give to other collectors?
When you enter the space, don’t worry about investing money, you should first just invest your time. Spend a few months researching before making your first purchase or starting your project.
Who are some of your biggest inspirations in the scene and why?
@twerkyclub, one of the first people I saw build a community around his NFT project, long before boring monkeys hit the mark. I saw his hard work change the entire NFT area around me
@kennethbosak was the person who gave me my first speaking position and convinced me it was something I wanted to do. He saw something in me before I even saw it.
3 artists you love in crypto art and why?
My favorite artist changes all the time as the space is always growing and new artists appear, but I’ve recently been partial to @camibusNFT, I just love the recurring theme of the long legs coming to a point, they’re so graceful yet so isolated /disconnected from the world below them @izzyalright for her ability to portray emotions in a way that goes far beyond words @lambieartist for her bold colors and personality that is really just a whole vibe around.
Any tips for newcomers to the room?
Safety should be the first thing you check when you enter the room, set yourself up right from the start to avoid heartache later. Hardware wallets, dedicated computers, metal seed storage, multisigs, these are all things you should fully understand or implement before putting large amounts of money into your wallet.
Where do you see the future of crypto art/nfts going?
At some point, I don’t think we’ll even call them NFT anymore. How often do we talk about the underlying technology we use every day? I think people will have multiple apps on their phones for different types of NFTs, maybe one for hotel rewards and room keys, one for your local coffee shop, etc. Where they use NFTs without even realizing they are NFTs.
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