WISeKey $WKEY and Creative Film Partners Launch First-Ever Colonial American Artwork NFT Auction to WISe.Art MarketPlace Auction Ends on Independence Day Geneva, Switzerland . | June 3, 2021
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Geneva, Switzerland – June 3, 2021 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading cyber security, IoT, and AI platform company, and Creative Film Partners, LLC (CFP), a Richmond, VA based new media firm, announced today a first-of-its-kind Colonial American Artwork NFT auction to be held from June 21 through Independence Day, July 4, 2021.
The NFT up for bid is a medium-frame digital photograph of an original John Wollaston oil painting of George Plater III, Maryland’s sixth Governor, from the private Tayloe family collection. George Plater III (1735 – 1792) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Saint Mary’s County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1780, and served as Governor of Maryland from 1791 to 1792.
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As part of its American Portraits initiative, an ongoing crowd-sourced project in which participants respond to prompts on the American experience, PBS has launched a roving public art initiative with the artists Carlos Ramirez, Swoon and Rick Lowe that reflects on American culture and identity. The multi-media installations, made from repurposed vehicles, will be shown in different locations across three US cities for several months, and will also be recorded in a four-part documentary series.
The artists selected for the project “each present a unique viewpoint” on what it means to be American today, says Bill Margol, the director of programming and development of PBS. “In art that provokes thought and discussion, we can find common ground and civility.”