The actor Keanu Reeves and his longtime girlfriend, artist Alexandra Grant, are teaming up to advise the new charitable initiative Futureverse Foundation, which aims to empower the next generation of artists through the use of blockchain technology and web3.
As an outgrowth of Non-Fungible Labs and FLUF World, a New Zealand-based NFT studio, the Futureverse Foundation plans to support projects by using an internal nomination process. Grant and Reeves say they hope to fund approximately five to 10 projects per year.
“Our mission is to explore how the technology of web3 and the metaverse can support communities coming from diverse backgrounds,” Grant told Artnet News from her Berlin studio last weekend. “We are in the very early planning stages, but I believe that what we are doing will really have a positive impact on artistic philanthropy in the months and years to come.”
Grant, who has long explored the intersections of language and visual culture, said she hopes the new foundation...
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