TLDR

• I’m interested in and good at financially resourcing movements involving artists and creators. I want to help you get these coins.

• I care about community building and making information on surviving neoliberal racial capitalism in a Black Queer body available to all.

Long Form Bio

Kat Bloomfield (They/Them) founded Arts Business Collaborative (ABC) in 2014 in Queens, which has incubated Black Trans Lives Matter movement organizations in the arts, raising $18.5M from 2020-2024. Over 11 years since launching ABC, they’ve raised nearly $40M for arts organizations and facilitated nearly $4M in cash assistance to over 900 Black trans artists in all 5 boroughs of NYC and globally for expenses including mental health services, rent, gender affirming surgeries, and academic scholarships.

Through ABC, Kat personally works with 40-80 entrepreneurs and artists per year helping them develop business plans, navigate funding, and generally increase their capacity to build sustainable arts businesses. Kat lives in Indianapolis and works nationally, most recently moving from Queens, NYC where they served Queens Community Board 2 as Treasurer.

In addition to Founding ABC, Kat is a co-founder of BLX Alternative, an NYC-based community organization committed to reducing and eliminating the shame and stigma associated with alternative relationships for economically and racially marginalized communities through education and leadership development in the Leather/Kink Fetish, and BDSM communities. This work is deeply tied to the arts as mental wellness, shame-reduction, and a community support modality through culturally relevant craft.

Personally, Kat is a trans non-binary printmaker and digital media artist who specializes in portraiture and pattern-making. They advocate for disability communities within the arts, especially for people on the Autism Spectrum.