About Me
I'm Lazaro, a multidisciplinary explorer and artist from Argentina. I'm part of a web3 artist community and have experience organizing creative gatherings, including a house residency in Tucuman last year. I've participated in several web3 IRL meetings and art exhibitions, which has given me insight into how to bring people together around shared creative interests.
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Organizer Information
Name & Farcaster handle: Lazaro (@1azr011)
Background: I'm a web3 artist with hands-on experience in community organizing. Last year, I organized a house residency in Tucuman, and I've been actively participating in web3 IRL meetings and art exhibitions. This experience has taught me how to create welcoming spaces where artists can connect, share knowledge, and collaborate across different mediums and skill levels.
Meetup Plan
City/Region: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Proposed Venues: We'll alternate between outdoor park spaces and our dedicated web3 coworking space in Buenos Aires. This gives us flexibility for different types of activities and weather conditions.
Schedule: Weekly meetups every Friday. This frequent schedule will help build strong community momentum and regular connection points for artists.
Promotion Strategy: I'll promote meetups publicly through Farcaster, Twitter, and Instagram, ensuring advance announcements to welcome both existing community members and newcomers interested in web3 art.
Grounds Values: Our meetups will embody the values of Grounds by cultivating a truly inclusive and collaborative space where artists and creatives from diverse backgrounds can share tools, experiences, and visions. We aim to break the barriers between analog and digital art, and between traditional creatives and web3-native builders.
By fostering horizontal collaboration, we'll encourage knowledge-sharing over coffee and conversation—whether it's about how to mint an NFT, use Blender, write smart contracts, or explore storytelling through mixed media.
Creativity and difference are not only welcome, they're the heart of the experience. We'll open the floor to all artistic voices—queer, neurodiverse, experimental, self-taught—and celebrate the uniqueness of each approach. Our sessions will mix skill-sharing, small exhibitions, creative prompts, and hands-on activities that encourage active participation rather than passive consumption.
Discussion Ideas: To help newcomers feel comfortable, I plan to create a relaxed and nourishing environment—starting with food, warmth, and shared culture. Each meetup will feel like gathering at a friend's house: we'll have coffee, matcha, herbal tea, mate, and traditional Argentine snacks to break the ice and open up conversation naturally.
Some concrete activities include:
- Welcome circle: We'll start each meetup with a brief round of intros where everyone shares what they're working on or curious about—no pressure, just a gentle way to open the floor.
- Hands-on tables: We'll have mixed media stations—like clay, markers, zines, or open laptops—where people can sit and create while chatting. This keeps the space dynamic and approachable.
- Beginner-friendly mini-talks: Each session could include a 5–10 minute informal "how I got started in web3/art" story from an attendee, to inspire and demystify.
- Tool Swap + Skill Share: Attendees can bring tools, books, or tips to trade—maybe someone shows a generative art trick, while another teaches analog collage.
- Open co-creation sessions: We'll host time for collaborative pieces or jam-style works where people can contribute regardless of experience.
Above all, the goal is to lower the barrier to entry and make people feel seen, valued, and safe to explore without needing to "perform" expertise.
Local Mission: The mission of this program in Buenos Aires is to weave a vibrant bridge between the city's rich artistic culture and the new creative possibilities unlocked by web3.
Buenos Aires is a city full of raw, passionate creativity—murals, music, zines, ceramics, performance, poetry. But many local artists still feel disconnected from the digital tools, platforms, and communities that could help them grow, share, and sustain their work globally. I see these meetups as an entry point into web3 that feels human, accessible, and grounded in community.
By mixing local culture (mate, art jams, shared meals) with open conversations about blockchain, digital ownership, and creative sovereignty, we're building a space where the web3 ecosystem doesn't feel distant or elitist—it becomes a natural extension of our creative lives.
Over time, I believe these gatherings can:
- Foster new collaborations between digital and analog artists
- Empower underrepresented voices to access new platforms for their work
- Create a sustainable support network for artists navigating the evolving creative economy
- Contribute to a glocal (global + local) creative ecosystem where ideas flow in both directions—from Buenos Aires to the world, and back
In short: we're planting seeds of connection, creativity, and collective growth—starting with coffee and clay, and reaching toward the decentralized future.
Visual Documentation
This playful logo captures the creative and welcoming spirit of our Web3 Artists Meetup vision, combining traditional art tools with digital elements to represent our mission of bridging analog and digital creativity.
