Male Artists Are Making Fortunes in the Exploding NFT Market. These Feminist Artists Are Staking a Claim With Their Own Crypto-Art Drop

Photo caption: Michele Pred, Bud Snow and Wildcat Ebony Brown at the Wide Awakes Vote Feminist Parade in New York. Photo by Pontus Hook. Article by Sarah Cascone. Artnet – March 8, 2021.

Michele Pred, Bud Snow, and Wildcat Ebony Brown are marking International Women’s Day by launching an NFT art sale.

Beeple. Fewocious. Andrés Reisinger. That guy who made Nyan Cat. As the market for NFT artworks explodes, the majority of the artists benefitting from the sudden boom are men—reflecting both the longstanding dominance of male artists in the international art market and the lack of gender diversity in the technology field.

“The NFT world is currently flooded with white men,” artist Michele Pred told Artnet News. “I want to change that.” […]

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