About
Built by many hands.
A mosaic, by name.
Mosaics are made of tesserae. Small pieces of glass or stone, set by hand, that only mean something next to each other.
Fine art works the same way. The artist holds the design, but the piece gets finished by many hands. Fabricators. Welders. Studio assistants. Art handlers. Grant writers. Rarely one person, even when only one name is on the wall.
Mosaira is the room where those people find each other.
A single tessera.
The mark is a single tessera. Three triangles forming a fourth — the empty one in the middle.
It’s self-similar. The artist inside a production, inside a studio, inside a community. The same logic at every scale.
The whole apparatus.
Mosaira is for artists making work, and the people who help them do it.
The idea came from moving back to LA after grad school and losing my studio community. I watched projects stall, not for lack of vision but lack of help. Existing platforms didn’t fit; they were built for office work, not for how art gets made.
Real creative projects aren’t tidy. Artists sketch and refine as they go. They don’t always pay in cash; sometimes they trade work for work. They want people they trust, in their community, at their scale.
Mosaira is built for that. Visual workspaces. Vetted makers. Flexible terms.
Coordination shouldn’t be the thing that kills a piece.
I’m Katie.
Fifteen years as a working artist, eight as a product designer. I’ve needed a welder at the last hour of an install, and I know how the interface should work to make that easier.
For years I passed names of fabricators and handlers between people who needed each other. Facebook groups, WhatsApp threads, late-night DMs. The work wasn’t getting easier, and no one was building the thing that would change that. So I started.
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.