[REPORT] Garden Collective DAO - August Report - 2022

[ted.iv]

Project Name: Garden Collective DAO - July Report

Project Status: [ in progress ]

[APPROVED] Garden Collective DAO - August 2022 Funding Request

CREATIVES DAO MONTHLY FUNDING REQUEST Council members: tediv.near edenf.near senhorsantos.near nillynoon.near Astrodao: garden-collective.sputnik-dao.near July report: Total Requested Funding Amount: $1145 Summary: The Garden Collective crew have been invited by a Portuguese music festival to create an art installation this month, so a substantial part of the month will be spent on site, building, creating and documenting. In part due to this as well as the delay in last month’s fundi…

Council members:
tediv.near
edenf.near
senhorsantos.near
nillynoon.near

Balance:
11.4 NEAR & 4160 DAI

Astrodao: garden-collective.sputnik-dao.near

Summary:

Garden Collective DAO spend two weeks of August working on a collaborative art installation at a music festival in Portugal, hence the simplified budget for the month we only received our funding for the month yesterday. Having said this, we anticipated the delay and with a simplified budget we were well prepared for it.

Projects

• Sowing Seeds
  The residency for August is nearing completion. The photos have been submitted and are currently being edited for minting and gallery creation… update from the artist here.
  We also have our September residency application secured… happy to introduce @jossup1 to the Sowing Seeds residency… full application here.
  We have also created a 3XR space for July’s resident @Niamh.mcg.art here.

• NFTropolis
  _____ NFTs bought from _____ DAOs.
  All NFTs bought via Custom Function Calls and now belong to the DAO, which you can see here: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/garden-collective.sputnik-dao.near/treasury/nfts
  List of purchase list with all details: NFTropolis - Garden DAO - Google Sheets

NFTropolis - DAO collab fair - 4th Sept 2022

• Otoco - LLC
  We are awaiting for the return of @senhorsantos for all council members to be in the same place and create a multi-sig wallet for LLC creation

• States of Matter NFT series
  The series has been completed and all pieces minted in our mintbase store as well as a 3XR gallery created from it.
  States of Matter - Collection | CUSTOM 3XR

• Use Case / Self Sustainability:
  We were very happy to be asked recently by Black Cat Cinema DAO to provide audio production support for their event. Garden Collective provided Soundsystem, backline, audio engineering and production support. All of these services were paid via NEAR as a use case for self-sustainability and DAO collaboration outside of funding proposals. Hoping to partner up with this DAO and others again soon and continue these practical use cases.

• Onboarded:
  Eggon.near - videographer and blender artist

• NFTs created
  25 individual NFTs (with several editions of each) from 3 different artists
  2 new minters added to our store (clickclackbum.near & niamhmcg.near)

Awaiting payout:

• Sowing Seeds August (to be paid on completion)
• NFT cross-stictching project - awaiting completion
• Self-sustainability purchases: awaiting availability on some stock
• Poetry Event - video (workshop has been paid out - awaiting video edits)
• $50 DAI towards a brand identity for NFTropolis
• Otoco Legal Wrapper
• Council work for August (to be used to cover additional costs from Art Installation project)

Next Steps:

• Sowing Seeds so far has been a huge success and we are looking to extend it out to more artists across different creative practices, which may see a second slot open for the month of October as we are in talks with various creatives.

• The month of August was far more of a practical, hands on month rather than a web3 month, and with NEARcon coming up, we’re happy to get going again developing the DAO and building our community as well as meeting some of the other DAOs and council members in real life.