Built by many hands.
A marketplace for fine artists and the people who help them make work. Fabricators, welders, handlers, assistants. Los Angeles first.
Eighteen trades. All of them load-bearing.
Woodworking and surfaces · Metalworking · Painting · 3D printing · Mold-making · Glass-working · Ceramics · Stone carving · Installation services · Art handling and shipping · Photography and documentation · Arts writing · Moving help · Videography · Printing · Textiles · Studio assisting · Website design
↑ larger three are the most-requested in LA right now
Coordination shouldn’t be the thing that kills a piece.
Projects stall for lack of help, not lack of vision. People leave the arts over it — not because the work dried up, but because getting it made became the whole job.
The freelance platforms were built for how office work happens, not how art-making does. So the real infrastructure ends up being Facebook groups, WhatsApp threads, and late-night DMs.
Post, quote, agree, make.
Post a project
Describe what you're making and what you need a hand with. A weekend or a six-month build.
Get quotes
Makers nearby reply with what they'd charge and how they'd approach it. You compare in one place.
Agree on terms
Settle scope and rate directly. Payment is held in escrow the moment you accept.
Work gets made
Money releases when both sides mark it complete. The piece gets finished; nobody's left exposed.
You set your rate. You keep your rate.
Makers set their own rates, and the platform fee is charged on top — not taken out. Quote a thousand dollars, receive a thousand dollars. Other platforms take their cut out of what the maker earns. We don’t.
Held in escrow
Payment is held at acceptance and released when both sides mark the project complete. Neither side is exposed.
The fee sits on top
A maker who quotes $1,000 receives $1,000. The fee is charged to the project, not deducted from the maker.
Terms can be flexible
Real creative work doesn't always run on tidy scopes. People negotiate directly, in the open.
The people behind the work.
Real makers, listed by trade and neighborhood. Nearby, not global.
Atmospheric for now.
Real portraits at launch.
Fifteen years a working artist, eight a product designer. I came back to LA after grad school without a studio community, and I watched projects stall and peers leave — not for lack of talent, for lack of anyone to call.
For years I passed names of fabricators and handlers between people who needed each other. Facebook groups, WhatsApp threads, late-night DMs, until the pattern was impossible to ignore. Mosaira is that, built properly.
I’m building this for two people: the artist who can’t find help, and the maker who can’t get found. If either is you, I’d love your help shaping it.