Category: Announcements

In order to best serve artists, we need to satisfy critical collector needs. One important aspect of doing this well is making sure we are always surfacing high-quality, relevant artworks across our platform.  MakersPlace operates both as a gallery — where the best artists and artworks are promoted and sold through our exhibitions including online … Continue reading Introducing Our Improved Search & Discovery Algorithm

Starting now and continuing over the next few quarters, you will see MakersPlace substantially evolving to become a premium brand to better serve the evolving needs of artists and collectors.  What’s motivating this evolution? Let’s start at the beginning.  MakersPlace was founded in 2018 with a simple vision: to bring the best digital art from … Continue reading Guiding Principles for the Evolution of MakersPlace

MakersPlace operates on two levels. On one level, we act as a gallery where the best artists and artworks are curated for inclusion in online drops and physical exhibitions at art fairs and live activations and matched with our highest level of service and promotion. We are also a marketplace platform where artworks from thousands … Continue reading Meet Our Curation Team

In bridging the on-chain and traditional art worlds, MakersPlace’s mission to create an easy and intuitive marketplace for artists and collectors remains the same. As the space evolves and matures, so too have we, with lots of recent and upcoming developments to share with our community.  We’ve sharpened our focus We’ve learned a lot in … Continue reading The Evolution of MakersPlace

NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 – To celebrate International Poetry Day and U.S. National Poetry Month, MakersPlace has teamed up with luxury audio brand, Bang & Olufsen, to announce the world premiere of “FOUR CORE TEXTS: Humanifesto and Other Poems”, a quartet of media-rich works written and performed by award-winning poet, language artist and AI … Continue reading MakersPlace Premiers New Work by Transhuman Poet Sasha Stiles in Exclusive Partnership with Bang & Olufsen

The car crash that prompted Frida Kahlo’s turn to art and the political climate that motivated her fashion choices.  The synaesthesia that drove Kandinsky to paint pure abstraction to represent the colors he heard.  The anatomy book that Basquiat’s mother gave him, which later showed its influence across his career. Great art with personal context … Continue reading Introducing Storytelling-Focused Drop Pages 

What is the Privates Sales Program? MakersPlace Private Sales is a service for buying and selling fine digital art on the blockchain through the MakersPlace Concierge Program. We work with collectors to search for and acquire unique works of art to add to their collection. Our network of industry leaders, collectors and artists allows us … Continue reading MakersPlace Private Sales Program

NFT Paris 2024 Curatorial Statement  By: Caitlin Cruickshank Sutherland  As a Senior Director at MakersPlace, I was honored to once again curate our exhibition for NFT Paris, held in the incomparable Grand Palais Éphémère.  MakersPlace was thrilled with our installations for the conference’s second edition last year, and greatly impressed with the presentation and quality … Continue reading An Accumulation of Positives

MakersPlace is excited to unveil the new Activity Dashboard, a significant enhancement to one of our most interacted features by collectors. This upgrade not only transforms the visual aspect of the tool but also introduces a range of functional improvements. The aim is to empower collectors with greater capabilities and transparency, enabling them to efficiently … Continue reading Announcing the New Activity Dashboard at MakersPlace