This piece is a collaboration between Jason Ebeyer and Jonathan Puc.

3500 x 4000 px

Merging the unique figures and elements from both artist's work - This collaboration piece explores the idea of different energy coming together to create something new.

Crossroads

Tyler Givens is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is a fantastical domain of boundless freedom and lore. Working with traditional mediums and digital technologies, his work pushes at the limits of how a figure is rendered and animated and how a story is formed, told, and received. Inspired by the existentialism found in his favorite anime, the flamboyance of 00s fashion imagery, and his Church upbringing, his work explores themes of sex, escapism, and the end of the world through his queer, black lens.

This open-edition mint is a digital collectible produced in collaboration with Zora Labs, who filmed and edited the accompanying video. The video explores the home studio and creative process of Tyler Givens, aka Tyl000rd.

This video is released in conjunction with Givens' latest NFT, which was created and minted as part of the 2023 QMoDA Artist Grant Program — more information about Tylers's edition and other artists involved in the QMoDA Artist Grant Program can be found at [Qmoda.art](https://qmoda.art/grant-landing-page)

QMoDA aims to create a supportive environment in the web3 space for Trans and Queer artists to thrive. We do this by collecting and preserving art on-chain, supporting artists financially, and looking for expansive ways to preserve cultural contributions by Trans and Queer creators globally.

Learn more at [Qmoda.art](https://qmoda.art/)

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Dedicated to the safety and success of Trans and Queer artists worldwide.
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You can think of this free mint as the flyer you pick up in the museum lobby. Something you can return to in the future and know "I was there."

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Trans and Queer artists are historically underrepresented and underfunded. This often means that artists must put their passions on hold to work jobs that don’t fulfill them artistically in order to survive. 

In the spirit of mutual aid, The QMoDA Artist Grant aims to push back against this injustice by providing artists with capital to pursue their passions. 

Funded by a donation by Zora Labs, QMoDA awarded merit-based ETH grants to artists around the globe. The 10 artists, named in the flyer here, are invited to create an original work and release it as an NFT edition.

One edition from each artist will be held permanently in the QMoDA vault, and the Zora vault, respectively. 

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 ✹ 10 artists, 10 editions, 10 ETH in funding

→ Learn more about the program and find a summary of the artists' mints by visiting [www.qmoda.art](https://qmoda.art/grant-landing-page) 

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The QMoDA Artist Grant, 2023 4

Laurel Charleston is the 10th and final recipient of the QMoDA 2023 Artist Grant. She is a groundbreaking artist using makeup as a medium. Her canvases have graced magazines, musicians, and celebrities, but through it all, Laurel has stayed true to her unique vision.

A multidisciplinary artist whose work spans the cosmetic, digital, and high fashion sectors. An internationally published makeup expert, Charleston's oeuvre references cultural allusions as disparate as calligraphy and epidemiology, exploding industry-wide notions of "wearable" beauty with plenty of glamour to spare.

Charleston's work has been featured on the covers of Dazed, Harper's Bazaar, and THEM, and appeared in the pages of Vogue, W Mag, New York Times, PAPER, Allure, and Tush, among other outlets. 

Best known for her ground-breaking cosmetic designs on pop sensation Doja Cat for Paris Fashion Week of 2022, Charleston has expanded her celebrity roster to include the likes of Normani, Dylan Mulvaney, and Teyana Taylor, alongside luxury clientele like Macys, Coach, Instagram, Bombay Sapphire, Steve Madden, L’Oreal, POLO Ralph Lauren and Farfetch.

Charleston has also made her mark in the Metaverse by producing and curating a first-of-its-kind exhibition called 'SuperTrans', a traveling gallery show that showcases trans artists from all over the world. 

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