Match funding human creativity
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11 fund applications (3 curated)
A collaborative initiative to document, preserve, and curate work of Kowecka - artist with Down Syndrome.
decentralizedarts-mediaeducationhealth-wellness
Project details match catalog
About
I’m preserving the story and art of Kowecka into VR experience and introducing her work to web3.
Impact
By sharing Kowecka's story and art, we empower the artist, inspire audiences and raise awareness for neurodivergent perspective. ZATO donates 21% of art profits to support a local charity constructing school for cognitively disabled.
Progress
In over a year: launched ZATO; preserved & digitized hundreds of works; curated & minted her 1st collection; raised ~3eth to sustain project; found many supporters & first collectors; developing her style's genart algo & custom framing solution;...
Team
I am crypto artist and a nephew of Kowecka; I also work with VR and collect generative art. Inspired by my aunt's pure way of being and her persistence, I had ideated ZATO for years. I want it to touch more people.
Funding
No displayed figures preserved for this project.
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 4 | Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | XR Film Fund for Immersive Storytelling | curated | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | Artizen Fund for Human Creativity | curated | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | Mona Fund for 3D Creators | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | Plato Fund for Local Flavor | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | Juicebox Project Accelerator Fund | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | Console Fund For Community Builders | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | FilmGate Fund for Interactive Storytelling | submitted | 2024-03-27 |
| Season 4 | Filecoin Fund for Cultural Preservation | curated | 2024-07-06 |
| Season 4 | Constellation Fund for Explosive Creativity | submitted | 2024-07-06 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Platform page (offline): https://artizen.fund/index/p/zato
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/zato
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗
Not recovered: creator, tags, links, funding, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Match funding human creativity TFDP is aimed at empowering youths/women with the skill of Fashion Illustration. | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +8 | $0 |
| 2. | TUNER Tuner is a documentary-based XR experience where you have a custom alien encounter shaped… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +6 | $87,139 |
| 3. | Artizen House Artizen House is a traveling home for creators to live together, make together, and fund… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +6 | $3,248 |
| 4. | Hair Skill Empowerment This project is aimed at empowering youths with the skill of Hairstyling. | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +6 | $0 |
| 5. | Ladies of Courage An outdoor arts festival honoring women and providing a showcase for artists, musicians,… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +6 | $0 |
| 6. | Remediating Ephemeral Interactive Art: A Creative Sandbox for Artists An experimental approach to archiving and re-experiencing nearly obsolete interactive art, | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +6 | $0 |
| 7. | THE FASHION DREAM This initiative is passionately aimed at empowering youths and women with the skill of Fa | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +6 | $0 |
| 8. | Sexilio Explores the migration experiences of five Latin American transgender women living in Par… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Commons Fund for Public Goods Pioneers +5 | $16,476 |
Other funds of top siblings
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