The first installment of Leyla's World!, a one-on-one style interview show, starring and hosted by Mint Gold Dust's very own Leyla Sarper. 

In this first episode, Leyla chats with Founder and CEO of Mint Gold Dust, Kelly LeValley Hunt about NFTs, blockchain and the launch of the Mint Gold Dust platform and ecosystem. 

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A duo of prolific multi-discipline artists of Chinese descent, Lily Honglei's art explores the duality of opposing forces and the ensuing result as well as their experience as immigrants and Asian Americans.  Their work remains consistent and ripe with humanity as they explore and sample a variety of mediums, from AR art, to VR art, to video art as well as more traditional static mediums.  

Lily Honglei has had their work shown in museums around the world as well as countless exhibitions and presentations.

Lily Honglei is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists, who are each creating an art piece centered around the them of gold dust.

Giant Swan sculpts stunning, exquisitely detailed, ethereal creations.  However he does not chip away at marble or mold clay; instead he plies his craft with a headset and controllers in the multi-dimensional medium of virtual reality.  The pliable fabric of virtual reality allows for his conception of movement and form a freer reign than a static medium ever could and produce eternally memorable work.

Giant Swan is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis Artists. He is creating a piece centered around the theme of gold dust which will debut at Mint Gold Dust's launch.

Stuart Ward shines a penetrating spotlight on the world of repetitive form in his works.

A lifelong artist, he ran a successful experiential design studio in Canada collaborating with the world's largest brands who sought out his unique aesthetic. However, with advent of the pandemic and large brands shuttering their operations, he rediscovered, amplified and augmented his own personal artistic voice through the platform of digital art. His immediately identifiable style resonates with artists and collectors worldwide and he continues to create mesmerizing, deeply personal pieces.

Stuart is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.

In the world of cryptoart, and increasingly the world at large, Hackatao needs no introduction. 

A pair of artists who live and work together outside Milan, they are true originals in the digital art world, both in their immediately identifiable aesthetic as well as their status as early pioneers of the symbiosis of art and blockchain.  Their immense artistic vision has led to high profile artistic collaborations but, as always, they tirelessly continue to create, experiment and explore their own artistic roadmap and the ever-unfolding possibilities of the blockchain.

Hackatao is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.

Bard Ionson approaches his art with the inner drive of an artist equipped with the raw skill of a computer hacker.  An experienced programmer, he trains AI with thousands of images, creates complex models and schema to manipulate his images, incorporates viewer-participation through micro-payments and utility and, like a modern day Da Vinci and his cryptex, Bard embeds hidden messages within his art for those with the skill and drive to find them. 

Bard is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.

Ben Snell is a creative force who wields a protean conception of form and implicit meaning in his art. His works explore the meeting ground of technology and humanity and reveal the act of creation of art as much as the production of the actual piece itself.

Ben is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.

Ben has received numerous awards and accolades for his creations and is currently based in New York City.

In this episode we speak with crypto artist, photographer, and light aficionado GiselXFlorez.  Gisel is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.

Gisel began her artistic journey through the lens of a camera; however, her lifelong pursuit in the development of her own unique visual language, and the intrinsic role her love of light plays in that journey, led her naturally to the vast potential in the digital art world.  In this episode she talks about how she feels she has found true freedom, both in the art and the crypto community, with her place and path in digital art.

In this episode we speak with watercolorist-turned-crypto-art-virtuoso Le Lapin Mignon.  Lapin is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.

Lapin creates deeply personal, mesmerizing and unique pieces, and the technology of digital art has allowed her to more dynamically create and populate her artistic world, which she dubs her 'metaverse'.  

We speak with Lapin about her path into crypto-art, her love of the crypto-art community, how technology has enhanced her use of watercolors, and her upcoming artistic works and exhibitions.

In this episode, the three collaborators behind the Mint Gold Dust digital art platform come together to illustrate the beginnings and vision of Mint Gold Dust, from their backgrounds and paths into the worlds of blockchain and digital art, to their fateful encounter at a digital arts festival in a Brooklyn warehouse and the ensuing pursuit to track down and pay a reclusive digital artist for his work.