WTBS is excited to welcome fellow New Yorker and long time friend Haiver onto the show. We've known Haiver from the NYC scene for years and have often talked about setting up an interview. In November Haiver announced the launch of Artist Commons, an educational platform for artists to level up their skills through lectures, feedback, mentorship and more!

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In this episode we discuss:

• Haiver's background in lens-based art and how he came to discover generative art on the blockchain
• The story of co-founding alba.art and what led him down the path to Artist Commons
• What exactly is Artist Commons?
• How (and why) this era of Generative Artists can connect with art history to better contextualize their work
• What artists can expect from receiving, and giving, feedback as a part of the Artist Commons curriculum
• What is the 'business of art'?
• Future ideas for Artist Commons as a platform & the potential for Haiver to get back to curating!
• How visual artists can build multiple revenue streams to sustain a career in art
• How Alba, fx(hash) and now Artist Commons are striving to enable more artists to succeed
• Artist Commons wrap-up & call for applications
• Bonus Question: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Follow Haiver on Twitter @HaiverArt and check out his Linktree for more

Follow Artist Commons on Twitter @Artist_Commons and find them on Instagram, Farcaster etc under that same handle

Intro and Outro tracks by PixelWank