Infrastructure
for how fine arts gets made

A marketplace for fine artists and the people who help them make work. Fabricators, welders, art handlers, assistants.

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Woodworking and surfacesGlass-workingStone carvingVideographyCeramicsMold-makingInstallation servicesArt handling and shippingTextilesPainting

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Real makers, listed by trade and neighborhood. Nearby, not global.

Woodworking and surfaces
Two nested wooden stretcher frames leaning against a studio wall.
Metalworking
A welder bent over a bench in a helmet, joining a metal frame as sparks scatter.
Photography and documentation
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Coordination shouldn’t be the thing that kills a piece.

Projects stall for lack of help, not lack of vision. People leave the arts all the time over it, not because the work dried up, but because getting a piece made and finding steady work are too difficult.

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.

  1. 01
    Post a project

    Describe what you're making and what you need a hand with. A weekend or a six-month build.

  2. 02
    Get quotes

    Makers nearby reply with what they'd charge and how they'd approach it. You compare in one place.

  3. 03
    Agree on terms

    Settle scope and rate directly. Payment is held in escrow the moment you accept.

  4. 04
    Work gets made

    Money releases when both sides mark it complete. The piece gets finished; nobody's left exposed.

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You set your rate. You keep your rate.

Other platforms take their cut out of what the maker earns. We don’t.

You quote
$100
You receive
$100
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  • Held in escrow

    Payment is held at acceptance and released when both sides mark the project complete.

  • The fee sits on top

    A maker who quotes $100 receives $100. The client pays $108. The 8% fee sits on top of the maker's rate, never inside it.

  • Terms can be flexible

    Real creative work doesn't always run on tidy scopes. Revise the quote as many times as it takes, and nothing is finalized until you both agree.

Katie Kirk in her studio, standing between one of her paintings and a glazed ceramic sculpture.

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 access.

For years I passed names of fabricators and art handlers between people who needed each other. Facebook groups, WhatsApp threads, late-night DMs, until the pattern was impossible to ignore: Mosaira is that network, open to people who aren’t in it yet.

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.

Founder, Mosaira

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