Where Creative Freedom
Meets Cultural Connection

MADE Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to merging communities and building a supportive network for artists and creatives. Through experimental art exhibits free from algorithms, gatekeeping, and commercial pressure, we’re redefining what it means to create, share, and support the arts.

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Why Art Matters

In a world run by algorithms, creativity is losing its freedom.

Art has become a product, measured by engagement, monetized through platforms, and flattened by trends. The label of “artist” is kept behind predetermined qualifications and biased stereotypes.

MADE pushes back. We believe everyone who creates has permission to call themselves an artist. We give a prompt and a deadline, but no expectations beyond making something real. Then we open the doors to the public.

The result is a one-of-a-kind experience that elevates the process as much as the product. Because artists need room to explore. And communities need the conversations it creates.

MADE for

Artists

You don’t need permission to make something real or call yourself an artist. MADE removes the pressure to perform for platforms or buyers and invites you to share your voice directly with your local community. Just a prompt, a deadline, and a platform.

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Community

Art isn’t a luxury. It’s the language of culture. MADE events bring people face-to-face with honest, thought-provoking expression and the creators behind it. Become a co-creator in our next experience by attending, getting involved, or donating.

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November

We're preping for our biggest event yet this November. Right now, we're bringing together the artists and creatives who will shape this experience with us. Open Call is live now through August 31. Artists on the list will receive the prompt September 1.

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What is MADE?

MADE is a nonprofit arts initiative based in Nashville, TN. We support artists by building a platform for artists of all disciplines to create art and share it with their community.

Each exhibit begins with an open call, one shared concept, and a deadline to create a piece. It comes together as a public event bringing people face-to-face with local art and the artists behind it, where the community can connect with raw, unfiltered creativity and artists can be recognized for what they want to create, not what they have to.

We’re focused on redefining the traditional understanding of what it means to make, consume and support art.

Read the full story

MADE began with a question.

What happens when you remove pressure and just invite people to create?

MADE began in 2022 as a simple Instagram story asking if any friends wanted to do a creative collaboration. What started as a few replies quickly grew to 75 people wanting to participate. With no funding, we dove into the first prompt-based exhibit based on the role of dopamine in the experience of pain and pleasure.

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