Opening Night: Pioneering Women in NFT Art

The Seattle NFT Museum’s purpose is to serve, educate, and connect the budding NFT community in the Pacific Northwest.

The second exhibition at the Seattle NFT Museum will highlight pioneering women in the early history of NFT art. Each artist and collector is making exciting contributions to the advancement of NFT art, technology, education, and/or communities.

Join this opening night event to get a first look at the pieces and meet the artists and collectors included in this exhibition.

Event program

Doors open at 6:30pm followed by a Q&A with featured artists and collectors.

Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

All ticket proceeds directly support the start up and operating costs of the museum. Visit https://www.seattlenftmuseum.com/ to learn more.

Krista Kim, World of Women, Kate Micucci, and the Kate Hannah Generative Art Collection Coming to the Seattle NFT Museum

The exhibition will run from February 26th through the month of March, coinciding with Women’s History Month.

Exhibition Highlights

Headline Artist: Krista Kim

Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement since 2014, promoting the confluence of art and technology, and technological innovation as a medium to further the development of digital humanism. She believes that artists must participate at the vanguard of technological innovation in order to contribute to the creation of future culture during this pivotal period of technological innovation, adaptation, and disruption. In her Digital Consciousness series, Kim gathers digital images of LED lights and manipulates them using multiple software to create her artwork, a technique that she has developed since 2012.

In March 2021, Krista sold the first NFT-backed digital home for over half a million dollars. Named Mars House, the digital home designed by Krista was sold on non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace SuperRare for 288 Ether ($512,000).

Collection: World of Women, Created and Illustrated by Yam Karkai (@ykarkai)

A community celebrating representation, inclusivity, and equal opportunities for all. United by a first-of-its-kind collection, featuring 10,000 artworks of diverse and powerful women. WoW includes owners such as Reese Witherspoon, Brit Moran, Shonda Rhimes, and Eva Longoria.

Collector: Kate Hannah

Kate Hannah began collecting generative art in January 2021 on the newly launched Art Blocks platform. New at the time to this form of art, she relished the direct engagement with a community of art enthusiasts, collectors, and artists – something that has become an integral and valued part of her experience collecting art. Kate joined the Art Blocks team in the fall of 2021, utilizing her 20 years’ experience building and scaling technology teams and companies. In December Kate co-curated The Digital exhibition of generative art at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Artist: Kate Micucci

The American actress, comedian, and musician is also known for her whimsical hand drawn, cartoon art. Growing up, she was inspired by “the funnies” in the daily newspaper, especially PEANUTS by Charles Shulz. Her drawings are inspired by the weirdness of everyday life and aim to warm the heart. In collaboration with Glowforge, Kate will be one of the first artists in the world to create a 3D printable NFT collection.

Artist: Itzel Yard (@IXSHELLS)

Itzel Yard is the top-selling female NFT artist. The Tor Project, which builds a privacy-focused web browser, commissioned her to create “Dreaming at Dusk”—which turned the cryptographic key used to create the non-profit’s first so-called onion service into a piece of art. It sold for roughly $2 million to PleasrDAO, a group of collectors, on Foundation. Yard’s works usually deal in generative art—where automation and computing form the patterns and shapes.

Artist: Alycia Rainaud (@maalavidaa)

Maalavidaa is Alycia Rainaud, a French Canadian Graphic Designer and Digital Artist based in Montréal. Her highly saturated abstract aesthetic finds its inspiration in Jungian therapy, color therapy, and meditation. Alycia’s work aims to explore the complexity of emotions through creative introspection as a path to increase emotional intelligence and mental health sensitivity. With this aim as a work thread, she founded Heal The Deal, Metaverse’s first emotional support club, a safe space driven by creativity and empathy, as well as a gateway to a new path in Alycia’s journey.

Seattle Artist: Jessica Greenwalt (@jessgreenwalt)

Jessica Greenwalt is an award-winning digital artist based in Bellingham, Washington. She’s created digital art for organizations around the world including Facebook, Binance, the United Nations, and many more.

Jessica is known as the “Queen of NFTs” for her influential role in the industry. She shapes NFT projects for the world’s biggest brands and celebrities as a Creative Director at VaynerNFT, designs open source tools to keep crypto users safe as the Creative VP of PhishFort, and onboards and educates entrepreneurial women as the resident crypto expert at Dreamers & Doers. She’s also the founder of Pixelkeet, a research and design firm that helps crypto companies build and launch products that change the world.

Seattle Artist: Sage Sarvie (@sagesarvie)

Now based in Seattle WA, Sage Sarvie is a digital artist and architectural engineer from Ottawa, Canada. Her dreamscapes invite the viewer to observe scenes of meditative equilibrium and are addictively blissful; each one is inspired by the intersection between our functional living spaces and the natural world. To achieve this, she applies an adept use of ambient lighting, minimalism, and various architectural elements. Her work has been featured on platforms such as Architect-Voice and Hypebae.

Seattle Artist: Kelsey Johnson (@heykelseyj)

Kelsey Johnson is a Seattle-based photographer and model, with a primary focus on travel and the outdoors. A Canon camera ambassador, her work has been published in The New Yorker and Conde Nast Traveler while amassing an online audience of over half a million. In the NFT space, Kelsey’s fine art work includes self-portraiture around the world, creating fantasy-like compositions that explore our relationship to nature.

Collector: EmilyT (@emilyt.eth)

Emily is a recent crypto, Web 3, and NFT enthusiast from Chicago, IL that is now based in Seattle, WA. She graduated from CS@Illinois in 2015 where she was formerly president of Women in Computer Science and Operations Lead for HackIllinois. Currently, Emily is Product Manager at Microsoft on the Office team, modernizing the way people can do their best work with digital pen and ink or voice for productivity. In her free time, she hosts onboarding sessions to bring friends into the NFT space.

Visitor COVID-19 Safety Protocols

Safety guidelines

We look forward to welcoming you to Seattle NFT Museum. The health and safety of our visitors, exhibitors, and staff remain our top priority. Our Health & Safety Plan has been developed based on the current recommendations provided by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Seattle.

There is risk of exposure to COVID-19 in any public space, indoor or outdoor, where others are present. By attending this event, you and your party voluntarily assume these risks as they pertain to exposure to COVID-19.

Stay home if you’re sick, or if you have been exposed or experience COVID symptoms even if vaccinated.

Entering the space

Seattle NFT Museum is requiring that all individuals wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status.

In addition to mandatory masks, Seattle NFTM Museum requires that each visitor provide the following before entry to the fair:

• Proof of Full Vaccination in paper form or digital application. OR
• Proof of Negative COVID-19 Test Result (i.e. PCR) taken within 72 hours of your visit. *No Rapid Antigen test results will be accepted.

Social distancing is required for all visitors.

Visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets online in advance for a contactless checkin experience.

Sponsored by Carbonfund

A portion of ticket proceeds will be donated to carbonfund.org to invest in renewable energy projects.

About Seattle NFT Museum

The Seattle NFT Museum’s purpose is to serve, educate, and connect the budding NFT community in the Pacific Northwest. The museum will range from education exhibitions to coveted pieces, and will also be available for hosting live events.

Visit https://www.seattlenftmuseum.com/ to learn more.