Musical Artcards
Art You Can Hear. Art You Can Trade.
What if music could be collected, gifted, saved, and traded as a work of art?
Musical Artcards bring music and visual art together in a collectible format, creating new opportunities for musicians, visual artists, and collectors.
Each Musical Artcard combines original music with visual artwork in a physical card that can be collected, shared, and traded.
Musicians make the music. Artists make the art. Together, they create something worth collecting.
What Is a Musical Artcard?
A Musical Artcard is a collectible artwork measuring 2.5 × 3.5 inches—the familiar size of an artist trading card.
Each card features original visual artwork or an authorized reproduction, together with a QR code or web link connecting the collector to an original musical recording.
The music might be a single song, an instrumental composition, an EP, or an entire album.
Musical Artcards may be individually created originals or signed, limited editions.
The physical card is the collectible artwork. The accompanying music brings it to life.
Imagine a beautifully illustrated card introducing you to a musician's original composition, or a collection of cards representing different songs, albums, and artists.
A miniature art collection. A musical discovery. Something you can hold, enjoy, and trade.
Musicians: Give Your Music a Physical Life
In a world where music is increasingly distributed digitally, Musical Artcards offer musicians a tangible way to share their work.
Create a collectible edition for a new single, album, or special recording. Give cards to fans, offer them for sale, include them with merchandise, or trade them for other art, goods, and services.
Each card becomes a physical expression of your music—something collectors can keep, display, gift, and exchange.
You can create the artwork yourself or collaborate with a visual artist to develop something unique.
Musicians Meet Visual Artists
Two artists. Two art forms. One collectible work of art.
Musical Artcards create opportunities for musicians and visual artists to work together.
Musicians are invited to commission painters, illustrators, photographers, printmakers, and designers to create original artwork inspired by their music.
Visual artists can offer their creative services in exchange for payment, recordings, artwork, or other agreed trades.
Find collaborators through the free Minnaar Trading Post, or meet fellow artists and musicians at our weekly Minnaar Money Meetups.
Collaborators make their own arrangements regarding compensation, reproduction rights, and creative contributions.
Both the musician and visual artist should receive appropriate credit on the finished Artcard.
Create together. Collect together. Trade together.
Create Your Own Musical Artcards
Musical Artcards are simple to produce and offer considerable creative freedom.
The standard format is:
- Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches.
- Artwork: An original visual design, illustration, photograph, or other artwork, printed or created on a physical card.
- Music: A QR code or web link providing access to the musician's original recording.
- Edition: An individually created original or a signed, limited edition.
- Identification: The musician's name, visual artist's name, title, and edition details, as applicable.
Artists are encouraged to use quality materials, provide durable links to their music, and make each card a collectible work worth keeping.
Musical Artcards are an open artistic format. Anyone is welcome to create, distribute, collect, sell, gift, and trade them independently.
There is no requirement to participate in Minnaar Money.
Make Your Own Art Money
Your Musical Artcards can become part of your own exchangeable art collection, whether or not they are selected for Minnaar Money.
Establish your own values, issue digital Certificates of Authenticity, and offer your cards, recordings, and other creations for trade through the free Minnaar Trading Post.
You can also establish your own exchange policy, inviting collectors to trade previously acquired works for other available creations.
Your art. Your values. Your terms.
Learn How to Make Your Own Art Money →
Musical Artcards as Minnaar Money
Selected Musical Artcards may also become Minnaar Money — Art You Can Trade.
Artist and collector Steven Minnaar invites musicians and their visual artist collaborators to submit completed Musical Artcards for consideration through Guest Artist Selections.
Steven personally selects works according to his artistic standards, choosing only those he would be proud to have created himself.
Through his artistic selection and designation, accepted works acquire an additional identity as Minnaar Money while retaining their original authorship.
Each accepted and registered Musical Artcard receives:
- Permanent Catalogue Recognition: A lasting record identifying the artwork, its musician, visual artist, and other relevant details, including creator website links.
- Digital Certificate of Authenticity: Documentation identifying the registered physical card and its creators.
- Sovereign Value of 1 SV: An assigned exchange value within the Minnaar Money system.
- Lasting Exchange Privileges: Eligibility to exchange the registered card for other available Minnaars under the established Catalogue rules.
Each accepted physical card is registered individually. Other copies of the same edition do not automatically become Minnaar Money.
A Musical Artcard might be exchanged for a drawing, photograph, original print, or another musical artwork. Several registered Minnaars may also be combined toward an available work of greater Sovereign Value.
The music can be heard. The art can be held. The Minnaar can be traded.
Musical Artcard Submission Requirements
To be considered for inclusion in the Minnaar Catalogue as a Musical Artcard, each submission must:
- Measure exactly 2.5 × 3.5 inches.
- Be a physical artwork on paper or card stock.
- Combine visual artwork with access to original music.
- Be an original work or signed limited edition.
- Identify the musician and visual artist, where applicable.
- Be delivered in a clear protective sleeve if accepted.
Larger music-related artworks may be considered under other eligible Guest Artist Selections categories, but not as Musical Artcards.
How to Submit
Artists may submit up to three works at a time, as often as they wish.
Submission is free.
Steven may select one, several, or none of the works submitted, according to his artistic standards.
For each selected Musical Artcard you choose to contribute, you provide:
- The completed physical Artcard in a clear protective sleeve.
- One troy ounce of .999 fine silver.
The artwork and silver are required only after selection, if you decide to proceed.
Please do not send physical cards or silver until acceptance has been confirmed and delivery arrangements have been made.
There is no limit to the number of works that may ultimately be selected from an individual creator.
Submit Your Musical Artcards for Consideration →
Meet Musicians. Meet Artists. Make Trades.
Musicians, visual artists, collectors, and friends are invited to our weekly Minnaar Money Meetups in Dana Point, California.
Discover new artwork and music, meet potential collaborators, share ideas, and explore trading opportunities.
Every Saturday, 10 AM–Noon
Minnaar Studio
24701 La Plaza, Suite 102
Dana Point, CA 92629
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Participation is open to everyone, whether or not they have work represented in the Minnaar Catalogue.
Make Music. Make Art. Make a Trade.
Whether you're a musician looking for a creative way to share your recordings, a visual artist seeking collaborations, or a collector who appreciates both art and music, Musical Artcards offer something to discover.
Create your own. Collaborate with another artist. Build a collection. Trade for something new.
Musical Artcards — Art You Can Hear. Art You Can Trade.
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Musical Artcards are an open collectible-art format. Only physical cards personally selected and registered in the Minnaar Catalogue become Minnaar Money and receive its associated exchange privileges.
Creators retain their copyrights and are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions to reproduce artwork and provide access to original music.
Sovereign Value is an artistic exchange designation, not a guarantee of conventional market value or redemption for cash or silver.