Thread by @WHALEMembers

Good morning #NFTartists & #NFTphotographers -

The 🐳WHALE 🐳 team is excited to introduce the New WHALE Artist Collective program.

This will be a 🧵long one, please take time to read!

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🎨🐳 WHALE Artist Collective 🐳🎨

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The WHALE Art Collective (WAC) is WHALE's in-house art residency program that empowers creatives by providing supportive engagement, information, education and market exposure.

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Leveraging the knowledge, resources and member base of WHALE, creatives are able to expedite their professional and commercial growth through active participation in the Collective.

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The WAC provides incremental benefits to creatives who further the cause of the Collective through active participation and engagement with other Collective members. Collective members can also accelerate through the WAC structure through other curatorial methods.👇

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WHALE Members benefit from the WAC through the intimate relationship between WHALE and the Collective members, resulting in a wide variety of high quality content and events.

WAC Structure is as follows:
- Exhibiting Artist
- Resident Artist
- Vault Artist

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WAC Membership 1/8

The start of a creative’s journey in the WAC is through the participation in a WAC Open Call held quarterly.

Creatives are encouraged to submit their works whereby submissions will be reviewed and selected by a panel determined by the WHALE Leadership.

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Exhibiting Artist

Only a total of ten (10) creatives will be selected on a quarterly basis. Upon being selected, a creative will be provided a “WHALE Exhibiting Artist” role with perks for one (1) quarter. Perks are noted in the full discord announcement.
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Once the quarter is over the Exhibiting Artists role expires, but previous applicants are welcome to re-apply for a spot.

All creatives who become Exhibiting Artists will get an honorary WHALE Artist Collective Alumni role forever.

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Resident Artist

An Exhibiting Artist can only become a Resident Artist through identified high levels of participation in the WAC and WHALE that are recognized by their peers and the WHALE leadership team.

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Voting for the residency spot will occur on a quarterly basis with only a total of one (1) Resident Artists being elected per quarter. This will result in four (4) active Resident Artists at any given time after the first year.

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Upon being selected, a creative will be provided a “WHALE Resident Artist” role with the perks for twelve (12) months. Perks are noted in the full discord announcement.

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Vault Artist

The title of Vault Artist is a ceremonial role gifted to creatives who have had over ten (10) pieces of artwork, photography, videography, music or written-word NFTs collected and held by the WHALE Vault.

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In addition to this, potential Vault Artists must also be confirmed by an unanimous vote by Team WHALE’s leadership. Only one (1) Vault Artist can be elected per year.

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To apply for the WAC program for this next quarter and read about the perks, go to the discord and read the following full announcement:

Discord Link:
- discord.gg/whale

Announcement Link:
discord.com/channels/70494…

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Please note, only apply if you are a serious NFT artist or photographer.

Deadline - 9.25.22

If you have questions about the program please ask in the discord!

Good luck! ❤️
🐳 WHALE 🐳 Team