About / Artist Corporations Foundation
Building infrastructure for the creative century.
Half of Americans have an active creative practice. None of them have a business entity built for the work they actually do. We're changing that.
01 — What We Do
A new entity for a new century.
The creative economy is one of the largest sectors of the American workforce, and one of the most structurally underserved. Existing legal forms — LLCs, S-Corps, 501(c)(3)s — were not designed for how creative work is actually made, owned, or shared. The Artist Corporations Foundation exists to fix that.
We're championing a new business entity called the A-Corp — an LLC variant that requires 51% creative ownership and control, treats intellectual property as a recognized capital asset, makes fractional equity easy to issue, and creates a foundation for group healthcare and other shared protections.
In April 2026, Colorado's State Senate Business, Labor & Technology Committee passed Senate Bill 26-133 unanimously — the first A-Corp law moving toward passage in the country. California, New York, Delaware, and others are next. Officials in Canada, Australia, and the UK have reached out.
The Foundation does four things — builds the tools and registration systems that make A-Corps real, advances the policy work state by state, educates and tells stories about creative economic life, and supports local leaders building this movement in their own communities.
02 — Built By Many
This is a group project.
The Foundation runs lean, but the work behind it is the product of artists, lawyers, legislators, organizers, and funders working in common. The people below are the closest in. Many more — witnesses, sponsors, summit hosts, supporters — make this real every week.
Founder & Director
Yancey Strickler
Co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter. Author of This Could Be Our Future and The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet. Started Artist Corporations after years of watching creative people lack the legal scaffolding their work demanded.
Co-founder & Bill Author
Susan Mac Cormac
Corporate law partner at Morrison Foerster and a pioneer of mission-aligned corporate structures. Susan is the legal architect of the A-Corp and the lead drafter of Colorado SB26-133.
Board Member
Jennifer Arceneaux
Brings deep expertise in cultural strategy and organizational governance to the Foundation's board, supporting both the policy mission and the network's long-term direction.
Board Member
Mikael Moore
Founder of Wondaland. A longtime manager, strategist, and cultural organizer working at the intersection of music, art, and politics — and a sharp voice for what creative ownership should mean in practice.
Managing Director
Lena Imamura
Artist and accountant. Runs the Foundation's day-to-day operations, oversees programs and partnerships, and leads the network of creative people building toward A-Corp adoption.
Creative Director
Ilya Yudanov
Designer and artist. Leads the visual identity, design systems, and storytelling for the Foundation, the A-Corp brand, and the broader movement around creative economic rights.
Engineering
Brandon Valosek
Builds the Foundation's tools, registration systems, and platform infrastructure — the working scaffolding that turns A-Corp law into something a creative person can actually use.
Advisor
Rob Kalin
Founder of Etsy. A lifelong advocate for craft, human-scale business, and economic structures that serve makers rather than the other way around.
Beyond this list — the nine witnesses who testified for SB26-133, the bipartisan sponsors in the Colorado legislature, the local leaders running A-Corp summits in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and the founders, funders, and friends who showed up early. The Foundation is the steward — not the source — of this work.
03 — Funders & Partners
Backed by people who saw it early.
- Doris Duke Foundation
- Kenneth Rainin Foundation
- Other supporters
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The Creative Century
Creativity has never been more important. Now is the time to build the first structure that fully supports it.
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