Pieces from my NFT collection "A World Within" were selected for the grant. This art collection started from curiosity about the NFT space and creating more digital art. I would never have fathomed I would win an award for creating this work! 

The 2022 Future Art Awards: The Digital Awakening honors outstanding contemporary artworks, individual NFTs as well as NFT collections for creative excellence across the following categories: originality, personality, quality of composition, creativity, skills, concepts of activism, justice or representation, overall emotional impression and adherence to the awards’ theme: The Digital Awakening.

An arts-based exploration and interrogation of meta-futures

As human beings begin to shift away from the physical world in favor of virtual and augmented realities, the world of art stands at the center of a global movement where immersive worlds, online avatars, and the advent of a digital blockchain-based-future will inevitably have a profound impact on art, culture, politics, activism and the economy. 

Between May 1st and July 15th, 2022, the 4th Annual Future Art Awards: The Digital Awakening extended an open call to U.S. artists from all walks of life, and creative expressions wishing to use their art to reimagine what a high-tech, highly connected future metaverse could look that is also deeply human.

An independent jury of artists and arts professionals reviewed each work of art through a blind review process.

Learn more about the grant and the other winners