Art Jams are a way to easily connect and draw with other artists. Create your Art Jam's canvas to let other artists discover it and join in, or hop onto an existing jam and start drawing.

Below you will find all the information for creating and managing art jams.

IMPORTANT: Please review our Terms of Service, paying particular attention to the Eligibility section.

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You must have a verified Magma account to create and join Art Jams.

More about verifying your account in this guide.

When logging into you Artdesk, you'll find the Art Jams icon directly below your Artdesk icon.

You cannot join or create Art Jams as an anonymous user. You must have a Magma account.

There are four main sections:

You can find an art jam either by browsing through the list of all canvases, or search based on the genre that you are interested in.

We recommend that you read our best practices for joining and hosting Art Jams here.

When you click on an art jam, a new window will appear with more information about it, including any particular rules that the host has.

You must agree to the rules of the canvas before joining. Art Jam hosts may block you if you do not adhere to the canvas rules.

You will also need to be email-verified before being allowed to join Art Jams. If you're not already verified, tap the Resend email button, or check our verification guide.

When Art Jams are created, hosts can assign particular genres to them to help other users find canvases that are more relevant to them.

When you select a genre, you will notice a slight change in the user interface. To deselect a genre and show all available art jams, tap on the genre again or hit the Clear button.

You can also toggle the visibility of canvases that are labeled as mature. In order to enable visibility, you will have to verify your age.

To host your own, discoverable Art Jam, hit either of the two highlighted buttons in the

dashboard.

A new window will appear where you can input all the information about your canvas including the title, description, genre, tags, and rules.

You can change the formatting of your text in the description using Markdown. Read more about Markdown in this guide.

You can assign up to three genres to your canvas. This ensures that when users filter canvases, your art jam will appear in the appropriate category.

Rules are an important part of public spaces, and canvas hosts can clearly state what is and isn't allowed in their spaces. Joiners will see these rules when selecting your Art Jam and will have to agree to them before being allowed to join the canvas.

With a diverse userbase of different age groups and contexts, we ask that Art Jam hosts mark their canvases as having mature content if they expect to be drawing or discussing topics that may not be appropriate for younger or more conservative audiences.

In order for mature canvases to be visible, users will need to verify their age through this window.

If you don't want any more joiners on your canvas, or to hide it from discovery while you are offline or setting it up, you can mark your Art Jam as hidden.

You can either set your canvas as hidden when you create it, or later through the Edit option. It is not possible to do from the canvas itself.

When you set your canvas to hidden, anyone that previously joined the canvas, will still be able to access it later through the Art Jams I've Joined tab.

To delete an Art Jam, tap on the action menu icon, and then select to delete it. You can only remove canvases that you have created.

When you confirm to delete your Art Jam, it will be sent to the bin in your Artdesk.

You have 30 days to restore your canvas before it will be permanently deleted. When restoring one of these canvases from the bin, it will return to the Art Jams section of Magma.

If an art jam is found to be containing inappropriate content that does not meet our community guidelines, is potentially harmful, or not correctly labeled, you can report the canvas to our moderation team.

Categories for reporting include: mature content, violent content, bullying or harassment, hate speech, sexual activity, suicide & self-harm, and spam.

For each category, we do provide some examples when you select one. Be sure to give us more details as well when reporting. A moderator may request additional proof in the form of screenshots or account names.

When hosting a public canvas, you may want to carefully consider the various permissions available for joiners to limit any potential disruptive action from trolls. You can find these permissions in the Admin menu for your canvas.

We have adjusted the default permissions for Art Jams, but it is best for art jam hosts to review them as well. We have a video guide that covers these permissions in more detail.

A default layer limit is applied for Art Jams to ensure good performance of the app, and also to prevent excessive layer abuse by trolls. This limit is set to 10 layers per user. Admins will be able to change this in their Admin menu.