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Tezmas 2022: Celebrating Christmas with NFTs

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December 1, 2022

Budding artists across the Philippines take in the Christmas festivities and express their creativity in this year’s edition of Tezmas.

The sparkling lights. The warm feeling in the heart. The Christmas trees. Everyone’s favorite time of the year is finally here.

For the Tezos community in the Philippines, there is an extra reason to celebrate. Tezmas returns for the second year running, launched by Tezos Philippines and supported by TZ APAC and the Crypto Art Philippines group.

Tezmas is a Christmas-themed contest running from 5 November to 12 December 2022, where participants will create NFTs that capture how Christmas is celebrated in the Philippines. From parols (Filipino ornamental lanterns), belens (Christmas nativity scenes) and simbang gabi (nine days of Masses) to puto bumbong (Filipino purple rice cakes) and bibingka (baked rice cakes), there will be no limit placed on creativity that can be expressed in this contest.

How to join?

Tezmas 2022 is open to all artists in the Philippines.

  1. Create a Digital Artwork, based on the theme “Christmas in Metaverse”

  2. Between 3 November to 12 December 2022, mint 2 or more editions of that Artwork on Teia or OBJKT.com

  3. Send 1 edition to the Tezos Philippines Wallet Address: tezmas.tez

  4. Fill up the official Tezmas Registration form

  5. All contestants must follow Tezos Philippines on Twitter and join the Tezos Philippines Telegram Group

  6. Tweet a link to your work with the hashtags:

    #TezmasPH #Tezmas #Tezsup

    And tag @tezosphl as well!

(The work with the most retweets gets a special prize outside the ranked winnings!)

Who are the judges for Tezmas?

Bjorn Calleja

Bjorn Calleja is a Filipino painter and interdisciplinary artist, whose works play with the idea of the micro and macro-cosms of humans within and against their environments, in an ecological, social, and internal sense. Well-established in the Tezos arts community, Bjorn was one of the artists featured in the Tezos exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier this year.




Sheree Gotuaco

Sheree Gotuaco is a veteran fashion retailer and apparel manufacturer, and the founder/CEO of Stylist in Pocket Technologies and Scarletbox.io, a Premiere Art NFT Platform.




Skye Nicolas

Skye Nicolas is a Manila-born post-conceptual artist based in New York, USA. Through large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, public space interventions, sculpture, and digital artworks, he blends elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery with familiarity and the skewing of timelines through various means of precisely executed appropriation




Aldrine Alarcon

Aldrine Alarcon is a multimedia artist, and an avid collector and creator of NFTs. Part of the renowned Alacorn brothers, his work is a brilliant blend of realism and minimalism.




Kimi Rocha

Kimi Rocha is an art curator and founder of Galaria Paloma (bridging traditional art and NFTs, as well as an entrepreneur (founder of BananaramaPh).




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