Hello there 
It feels exciting to see the development of the Creatives DAO and for me it is a pleasure to follow what you guys have been doing and to keep an eye on the projects the DAO was able to support so far. Beautiful to see 
, fun to be part of it 
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Now, presenting myself here: I’m a Brazilian visual artist living in Lisbon since 2013, you can find my work in here . Since March/April till August I was part of a project supported by community fund called Planting AIR at Arroz Estúdios, I helped the artists to set up their studios and supported them with their artistic project. In April I entered Arroz Criativo DAO and the crypto integration team there alongside Tabea and Steven 
learning a lot with each other, voting on proposals and giving feedback to the community.
Since May I’m a co-founder of Incubadora alongside @Samiasns @frnvpr and @mecsbecs. We started in May Hackathon proposing creative ideas and ideating a better art ecosystem, once the artists and cultural practitioners are always put in precarious economic situations and our purpose is to help changing this pattern. We are currently implementing an online art residency focused on VR and New Media, with a strong educational side with workshops, talks and seminars called POLIEDRO. We onboarded artists, speakers and shared knowledge about governance, Near and blockchain, plus we paid the artists and speakers a participation/workshop fee. We are also preparing the way to support more artists financially with an Artist Stipend Program for visual artists. We supported @hevertonharieno to set up another DAO that has a great purpose of supporting immigrants, specially immigrants living in Portugal, called CUDO. They are totally rocking with plenty of beautiful projects!
I’m also part of VR-DAO council since July, helping VR community to grow, facilitating interactions within the community and inviting vr-related artists to be part of the council (@nearestchico + @naes). It has been a beautiful start and we are hoping to keep expanding the VR community within near ecosystem and keep ideating ways to improve our DAO.
I am loving being able to help other artists and support their careers. For me it’s a dream come true, something unimaginable without this ecosystem. I feel proud and lucky with all efforts I’ve been making alongside my team partners helping reshape not just the art ecosystem, but to build together an alternative to the centralized finances and governances.
let me know if I missed something in here 
TG: @JuMatsu