Artist Drue Kataoka will auction her first NFT, with all proceeds going to Asian American causes
Drue Kataoka’s art has made it to collections in 30 countries and even the International Space Station. Now the artist, activist and current face of Clubhouse’s app icon is releasing her first NFT to support Asian American causes. The auction will begin on digital art marketplace Nifty Gateway at 1:30 p.m. EST, May 13, along with a launch party on Clubhouse, and run for 24 hours. Nifty Gateway is waiving its auction fees, and all proceeds will go to the Catalyst Fund for Justice (CFJ), the grant-making arm of Stand with Asian Americans, a coalition of business leaders and activists partnered with the Asian Pacific Fund.
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Visual artist Drue Kataoka prefers getting in on the ground floor of any new social media endeavor.
“I love getting involved with emerging platforms, because I feel like when they’re new, they still have a lot of creative malleability and spark in them,” she tells The Japan Times from her studio in California’s Silicon Valley.
Born in Tokyo, Kataoka was an early user of Facebook, Twitter and, most recently, the audio app Clubhouse, where she says she was among the first 1,000 people onboard after it launched in the spring of 2020. In the year since, she has amassed over 705,000 followers, established The Art Club space and has spearheaded various social justice-oriented causes on the app, including a #StopAsianHate campaign and fundraiser that raised more than $88,000 in the wake of increased violence against Asian Americans in the United States.
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April 27, 2021
A visitor takes a photo of a recreation of The Walled Off Hotel room at the Banksy: Genius or Vandal? exhibition at Asobuild on March 27, 2020 in Yokohama, Japan. (Photo by Christopher Jue/Getty Images)
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