Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are certificates of ownership representing digital works of art, music, video, audio, souvenirs, etc. In the past year, they have quickly become popular because they allow everyday artists to create and sell content. In fact, OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT market, has more than 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in monthly trading volume.

Like physical works of art, NFTs can also be used for charitable auctions or donated to non-profit organizations with generous tax deductions.From Funded the construction of a school in Uganda arrive Help frontline medical staff, The decline of non-profit NFT can play a decisive role in having a positive impact on society.

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Moon Landing co-founders Lisa Slominski (Lisa Slominski) and Nick Dehadray (Nick Dehadray) discussed their upcoming NFT auction to support contemporary artists with intellectual disabilities and The non-profit studio where it works. The key themes of these works are pop culture and nostalgia, intertwined with the moments of struggle and persistence in the artist’s daily life.The collection is called NFToons and is now available for preview. It will be in usable The public auction will begin in January 2022.

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An initiative #Neural diversity inside #NFT Collaborate with non-profit studios of disabled artists.

Our first project- #NFToons go through @Project_Onward
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-Moon Landing Plan (@moonlandingnft) November 24, 2021

Cointelegraph: Please tell me, who is the artist behind your NFT project?

Lisa Slominsky: Of course, the first project is NFToons, which are eight artists working with Project Onward. Project Onward is a non-profit organization in Chicago that provides support for artists with different intellectual disabilities and social needs. Among the eight artists, one of them is this outstanding artist named Ruby Bradford. I have previously curated exhibitions with her. Her practice mainly revolves around Superman and Cat, linking the two with care and a sense of belonging.So, for NFToons, we really took her Superman as one of the iconic paintings of a cat, then animate it, move it off the screen, and she actually sang the soundtrack to .mp4 NFT, where she was doing Cat’s Superman theme song. So, this is an example.

Another artist is named Luis De Marco.In fact, I also got one of his paintings [pointing to an artwork on the mantle behind her]. But he made a very interesting work called “The Words of Life”. He did a lot of technical space work based on the spell he told him. What he also does is develop his own script, just like in a band.He developed a concept for a TV show called toaster, This is his own mashup friends with cheersHe created a pilot episode, which we will promote on Twitter and Instagram so that anyone can watch it. His NFT is a set of two-character apartments he drew. He also produced his own soundtrack for TV shows. So, this is the audio.

CT: Reading the press release, obviously part of the proceeds will be donated to charity. Which organization will it be?

LS: The charity is their studio. All these artists work in a day art studio called Project Onward. Project Onward is a non-profit 501(c) (3) [a legal United States federal income tax-exempt nonprofit entity] Charities in Chicago support these disabled artists. Therefore, 80% of sales will go back to studios and artists. Moon Landing plans to collaborate with a non-profit studio that supports artists with disabilities for each project, where we collaborate with their artists to create NFTs, and the proceeds will be donated to artists and studios. Our second project will work with the Australian Art Project Studio in Melbourne.

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Check out our other article to see PO Cal in general, but here is a SNEAK PEAK #RubyBradford original!
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-Project Continue (@Project_Onward) November 23, 2021

CT: In particular, what inspired you to work with these artists to help tell their stories?

LS: I have been working in the larger field of neurodiversity contemporary art for three years. I used to only work in contemporary art. I worked in an organization in London called the Museum of Everything. They focus on what many people call “outsider art”, which is a problematic term, but it usually includes some kind of disabled artists, self-taught artists, and marginalized artists. In any case, after coming out of there and starting to work on my kind of independent projects, I really found that I got in touch with some artists through positions with disabilities. I just discovered that the artworks of these studios are absolutely incredible.

I started to think about myself: they are just contemporary artists, even if they have disabilities. They are just young contemporary artists, so I started to incorporate them into the exhibition I was planning. I wrote some articles about them for Artsy. But specifically, these studios-internationally, these non-profit studios may have 30 to 50 different versions. They create professional development and creative environments for artists with different social needs and disabilities to develop creative practices. A few years ago, I established contact with Nick-he made some promotional animations for some of the exhibitions I was planning. So relying a bit on this, I realized his interest in NFT and creative diversity, as well as my interest, this would be a great opportunity to do something interesting and meaningful in the field of NFT.

Nick De Halle: Yes, I think what I have seen is indeed the way NFT Space supports self-taught artists, and it is a very strong community, which is still the case. So, I think it is really suitable for this type of work, where neuro-diversified artists teach themselves and create art for others to appreciate. NFT may be a great space for them to sell it. It seems really meaningful, and I think in the contemporary art market, they did not set these prices so high. Therefore, they may get better opportunities in the NFT field.

CT: This is more of a technical issue, but because the price of Ethereum gas is very high, it may cost hundreds of dollars to mint NFT. Do you provide financial support to artists when they are auctioned?

ND: Well, we will auction through OpenSea. Therefore, the minting will be done by the purchaser, and we will mint for this on Ethereum, but we also consider other currencies, such as Polygon, where Lightspeed does not have a gas fee. But at present, Ethereum still has a larger share of use. So, choosing that one now seems to make sense.

LS: Yes, we work directly with the studio that handles all these things in advance.

CT: Do you want to include a mission statement about your work?

LS: Just a few things to follow up Nick’s point of view. There are some similarities-I mean diversity. Generally speaking, it is a struggle in the field of contemporary art, and neurodiversity is a new struggle. There is some discussion now-like I gave a lecture last night, the title is “Can we be artists?” It is talking about neuro-diversified artists opening up a promising space in the art world. So, I do think that the NFT space has the opportunity to democratize things and create direct access from creators to audiences. It has great potential and can really improve many artists, otherwise it may be difficult for them to enter the art world, which I think is very interesting. Then, you know, we are working hard to promote these artists and promote these non-profit organizations. We know that people in the NFT field are asking about diversity and neurodiversity, but it is difficult to establish contact with them.

ND: Yes, this is one of the difficulties we encountered. Because there are many influential people there, such as Gmoney, they commented that we need more spatial diversity. But we are not visible now, because we have just started. But we will try to send a message to Gmoney, but he did not reply.

LS: Yes, it is true. Obviously, I hope that NFToons is the initial project, and then Moon Landing will continue this initiative. We also have two other supportive studios, and we have considered collaborating with non-profit organizations to carry out further projects to support disabled artists, let them create unique NFTs, and provide them to artists and non-profit organizations.

ND: This is a good way to introduce them [inaudible] They may not be able to cooperate with it. For example, we are looking at an artist, Terry Williams of the Australian Art Project, who completed the sculptures of these astronauts. But we can scan them in 3D, and through 3D scanning, we can convert them into NFT. Otherwise we may not be able to do this. Therefore, there is indeed a good opportunity for artists to use technologies that they would not otherwise consider using or inaccessible.

Credit reference for works: Ruby Bradford, Superman Cat, 2021 NFT, .mp4 | Repainted in Cointelegraph style