Incubadora DAO is a laboratory on the intersection between artwork and expertise. For Incubadora, it’s all about experimenting. They’re bridging the hole between the normal artwork & blockchain worlds and driving collaboration between artists, lecturers and cultural professionals by way of grants and academic packages.

Based in 2021, Incubadora DAO focuses on selling the collaboration between artists, lecturers, curators & creatives. Hoping to battle the growing precarisation of the cultural sector and creative labour, they’re utilizing blockchain and NFTs to ideate emancipatory options that may assist reshape the normal artwork ecosystem.
“Our mission is to bridge the normal artwork sector and internet 3 applied sciences, corresponding to marketplaces, new social media platforms and the metaverse”, one of many members of the DAO advised Mintbase.

Incubadora has three most important axes of motion. In the beginning, schooling — the group hosts month-to-month seminars combining creative practices with tutorial analysis and expertise.
By way of these seminars, workshops and talks they hope to onboard artists and researchers and share information with the group. This system is open to everybody who needs to participate.
“Our Seminars are theory-focused and span all kinds of topics. At our March seminar (date to be introduced), we’ll have an NFT Workshop with Eduardo Politzer & Coletivo Amarelo”
Secondly, Incubadora Vertical, a month-to-month price range allotted to group initiatives. These initiatives vary from digital & bodily exhibitions to podcasts or their newest venture “Cuba Pictures”, born out of a partnership with Cudo DAO.
Cuba Pictures is a sequence of video portraits of Portuguese-speaking visible artists. The intent is to painting the artists’ each day lives and promote their work. The primary artist invited to take part was Manu Romeiro, a Brazilian artist residing in São Miguel de Acha, who was awarded a grant by Incubadora. The total video will quickly be launched on Mintbase.
One other one among these initiatives, for instance, is Kawa Kami, an artist residency that can happen at Casarão do Chá in São Paulo, Brazil. The venture is outlined by the creative occupation of the house, by way of the creation of two installations together with supplies corresponding to ceramics, wooden or gold leaf. It features a public exhibition of the works and a efficiency, in collaboration with the artist Erika Kobayashi.
“The vertical permits us to help initiatives outdoors of our common scope, however which can be fascinating initiatives and price pursuing.”
Final however not least, is their Artist Stipends Program, which grants monetary help for artists from Portuguese talking international locations.
With three editions behind them and ten chosen artists, the initiative not solely ensures monetary backing to artists but in addition offers them help in minting their NFTs and creating digital galleries by way of Mintbase. IncubadoraDAO now has two Mintbase shops: their main store and a second one, devoted to artist fellows and visitor artists.
“These NFTs offered on Mintbase, assist our grantees fight the precariousness of the normal artwork market, by pursuing a brand new avenue for promoting their work, but in addition by creating a way of group and reference to their followers”, they clarify.
Moreover promoting their work on IncubadoraDAO’s Mintbase retailer, artists additionally get featured within the biannual Poliedro Catalog, a showcase of art work produced that semester, additionally offered as an NFT.
The first edition of the Poliedro Catalog was launched on the finish of November and featured six visible artists from completely different backgrounds, corresponding to animation, portray or sound artwork.