Leeaux’s background is in both traditional art and digital spaces

Born August 3rd, 1991 | He, Him | Pronounced as “Leo”

Leeaux is a full-time artist, brand developer, and entrepreneur. Originally from Louisiana, Leeaux is a permanent resident of Las Vegas. As a pure advocate for the advancement of arts, Leeaux uses his cumulative decade-plus years of experience in curating art exhibitions & artist showcasing to continually enrich the creative community around him, wherever he goes, by any means.

In short, NFTs use blockchain technology to authenticate ownership of unique digital assets. Some have sold for millions of dollars in recent years, which has caught the attention of a lot of people — especially in the digital art world.

Since 2014 Leeaux has made his way strictly through selling artwork and art-related activities. Putting pen to paper has quite literally built him from the ground up. Creativity has been bread and butter for many years and there are no plans to change career paths.

Atop of designing clothing, Leeaux develops websites and continuously collaborates with a growing number of art collectives inner-city, regionally, and nationally.

“My art style is a mixture of folklore, occult literature, various religions, Eastern cultures, adding subtle Western societal observations. I often combine philosophies I’ve picked up over time and translate them into my work. My favorite medium is a pen but I’m well versed in using many others. I love to create.”

Now, Leeaux says he wants to help other artists realize the potential in the space.

He envisions a digital marketplace specifically showcasing artists from the Arts District.

The project is in the early stages, but he has a website up where people can learn more and get information about upcoming meetings and events. It’s dtlvnft.com. You can also follow the Instagram account @dtlvnft.

“Artists in the 18B is going to be able to be on this marketplace that has NFTs underneath the 18B NFT smart contracts, and they’ll have the way for them to make their own NFTs,” said Leeaux of his plans. “It would be like Vegas’ ‘unofficial’ marketplace.”

He points to bias that can shut some creators out of opportunities.

“The art world and the tech world are not kind to people of color and women,” he said. “So, we all literally have to rally together, creating these spaces for ourselves, being a more of a community with ourselves.”

“People think you can buy an NFT and flip it and make bread,” he said. “And in some instances, you can do that. But sometimes people get into it and spend all their money on stuff and they’re just like, ‘What did I do, what I do wrong?'”

“You should be getting into it for the tech behind it,” he added. “The communities that are created from working together to make this tech is, you know, that’s at its core, its ethos. It’s kind of built on open-source principles.”

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