# Build Your Own Artist Colony

> How Artists Can Build Community on Towns

**Published by:** [Towns](https://blog.towns.com/)
**Published on:** 2024-11-05
**URL:** https://blog.towns.com/build-your-own-artist-colony

## Content

Create Towns for Your Collectors Your art deserves a more cohesive space than the endless feed. Create an exclusive paid Town to showcase your art, document your process, and meaningfully connect with your biggest supporters. Think private gallery meets subscription community – but actually built for digital artists.Your Onchain Gallery 🔗+ 🖼 People who collect your work want to be closer to the source. They want the story, the process, the early access. Towns is your space where you can:Drop early-access mints to your collectorsShare behind-the-scenes progress Get feedback from people who own your workBuild real connections with your collectorsSince Towns is built onchain on River, you'll have full ownership over directly monetizing your audience and your conversations are secured with e2ee. No more fighting algorithms or splitting revenue with platforms. Plus, you can gate your space and channels with NFTs from collectors who actually own your work. Think of it as your own artist colony. Start yours on Towns.Start Your Town 🏙Add a Town name and an image. Then customize the access level and cost of entry. You can customize Towns to collect membership fees and you can also choose to gate access by NFT, wallet addresses, and more:Gate Access to Collectors ✨You can create granular permissions for who can join - both for the overall Town and specific channels you create within your Town. Collect Membership Fees 📈Click into the "Cost" block and set the pricing parameters for your community. You can toggle between dynamic, fixed, and prepaid pricing. In this example, we've selected Fixed pricing and entered 0.01 ETH in membership fee for access. All funds collected will go into your Towns Treasury, which can be accessed by clicking the 'settings' icon above the Towns profile pic. Cash Out to Your Wallet💰As your Town and community grows in size and starts making money, you can withdraw Towns Treasury funds and deposit into another wallet. Click into your 'Town Info' panel by clicking on the admin settings icon next to the Town profile photo. Select "Transfer' next to Town Treasury and then deposit funds to either a linked wallet or another wallet address on Base. For more on how to create Towns and meaningfully connect with your audience, head to townhall.towns.com

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