Creators investing in creators.

Midnight Oil Collective is a venture studio that helps artists build and scale multimedia franchises that have the potential to create outsized financial returns. 

Using a proprietary collective model created by artists for artists and fueled by venture funds, MOC treats copyrights like patents, works with creators to build companies around their IP, and scales the franchise so that it creates returns that maximizes both artistic and financial impact for the creator and the ecosystem alike.

Art that scales.

Creators are entrepreneurs. When you treat artists like CEOs capable of building multi-media franchises from their own IP, the sky is the limit. By providing basic business education and seed funding, we empower our artists to retain equity and remain key stakeholders in their own work from page to production and beyond.

New Ecosystems.

We believe in sustainability. MOC’s unique model blends profit sharing and cooperative economics with a venture capital-style fund. When MOC profits, so do artists. When artists profit, so does MOC.

Fiscal ecosystems become social ecosystems. When art becomes a sustainable way of making a living, communities that are rich in culture are liberated from financial burden - and their art is liberated as well.

Education.

We need to change the mindset. Our education initiatives aim to empower artists (from students to seasoned professionals) and change the scarcity mindset that holds artists to outdated, exploitative, and inefficient models of cultural production. We collaborate with academic institutions and professional organizations to revise and refine their business, legal, and financial offerings. With this education, artists are equipped with the skills and mindset they need to create their own opportunities.

Together, we will end the trope of the starving artist.

“Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”

— Leontyne Price

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