@ned posted recently about SMT and Oracles SMT. I have to say that I can't fully understand how that is going to work, but I think that a token dedicated to artworks and art services could be useful for the Art community on Steem. And probably Oracles could be used to certify authenticity of artworks and artists' identity - if I understand well what Oracles tokens are going to be, when released.
Anyway, what I'm trying to create in the last months is an interface for artists based on the Steem blockchain. A showcase and a database for selling/buying artworks, offering services, help the artists to share their art. Steemarket.com is still very far from that (at the moment it is just a a showcase build on Wordpress), and I have not the technical skills to develope it. I'm going to add soon pages and services to the website anyway, but I will not be able to connect it to the blockchain (or just using an account and a dedicated tag).
Is it also possible that the subcommunity feature (coming on Steemit in 2018, I guess) will make an interface for Art useless. I don't know.
The project itself is still not so complete: I want to have it open to contributions and suggestions.
In any case, I will surely need a developer. And I'm going to open a crowdfund to pay the developing of the project. Of course, the project has to be fully designed and introduced before asking money to fund it.
I asked Ned, on steemit.chat, about the benefit of using SMT for the Art Community. I hope he will answer, but the field of Art is a particular market, and I probably need to talk with a tech to put together my knowledge of the Art Market and his tech know-how.
I also wonder if @sndbox team and the utopian.io (