Art Workshops for Stressed Tech Workers | ETHConf NYC

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0:00A: Uh, what’s your name?
0:01B: Chanel Julia Rosita.
0:02A: Okay. Where are you from?
0:04B: Brooklyn, New York.
0:05A: Okay. And what are you working on? What brings you to this conference?
0:07B: Um, I host workshops for tech folks, people that are in high-stress environments to have a creative pause and to reflect and release and use art to transmute their feelings.
0:18A: Okay. And how did you start doing that? Like, how did, how did that become a thing that you get to do? That’s like a privilege to be able to do that kind of work for people.
0:23B: Yeah. Uh, I started doing it at Miami Art Week. Um, I was out there exhibiting anyway, and we’ve been in the tech space doing, you know, NFTs. Is that Art Basel? Is that an Well, Art Basel is its own thing. Miami Art Week is the big umbrella thing. So I wasn’t at Basel, I was at Art Week. There’s a differentiation there. Yeah,
0:39A: yeah, do it. Thank you. Bring the nuance.
0:41B: Yeah. So, so yeah, so we started there doing hosting workshops and so we’ve been, we’ve done it with Solana. I’ve done it at Basecamp and we’re building it out like it’s happening in real time. You know, everybody’s building.