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.

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 unless you have logged in. You must have a Magma account to access them.

There are four main sections:

Desktop users will also see a carousel of active Art Jams at the top of the Homepage. This makes it easy to find people to draw with right away!

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 in your account settings.

There are a few different ways to sort and filter through jams.

You can also toggle the visibility of canvases that are labeled as mature if you meet the age requirements to access such content.

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.

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.

This setting gives you some control over who can join your Art Jam and limit new troll accounts from joining. Typically 1 day old is sufficient, but perhaps you want people joining who have been active on the platform for a while longer. In that case you may set it to 1 week or 1 month.

Art livestreamers for example may find this useful to prevent potentially inappropriate content appearing on the canvas.

Instead of a singl canvas, you can choose to host a Multiboard Art Jam instead. This allows for multiple boards that can help reduce lag issues by spreading users out.

For more about how to use this feature, read our Multiboard user guide.

To enable it for you Art Jam, be sure to select the Multiple Canvas option. Up to 30 users can be on a single board.

After you create an Art Jam, it's not visible on the Live page yet. You will see a banner that indicates your Art Jam is private and only accessible to you.

This gives you time to set up your Art Jam with custom permissions, a background, or even schedule it for later.

When your Art Jam is ready to go live, tap the blue Publish button. A new window will appear asking if you want to go live immediately or schedule your Jam for later.

If you want your followers to know that you have a new Art Jam going live, be sure to check the Announce in the Feed box.

You can schedule your Art Jam in advance and let your followers and Art Jam members know about your upcoming event. Pick a date and time, and even a custom thumbnail.

When you hit the Schedule Jam button and have the Announce in feed box checked, you will be taken to a new modal for creating a post about your event.

After scheduling your Art Jam it will appear in the Upcoming section of the Art Jams page. Artspace Art Jams will only be visible for Artspace members.

You can read more about scheduled Art Jams in this guide.

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.

If your Art Jam is created inside an Artspace, you will have the option to publish it to the public Art Jams page.

If you want to remove your Art Jam from the public listing page, you can either edit the Art Jam details or tap the name at the top of your window and select Set to Members Only.

When you stop an Art Jam, the drawing can no longer be editted. Use this when your event comes to an end or when no admins will be present to manage the Art Jam.

You can find this option in the dropdown menu you to tap the Art Jam title.

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.

After 8 hours of inactivity, Art Jams are archived and become read only. This means that they can no longer be edited, and it protects the contents of the canvas.

Archived Art Jams can be reactivated by the host by tapping on the dropdown icon next to the title and selecting Restore Jam.

It's also possible to host Multiboard Art Jams. This can be a great alternative to expanding a single canvas which might cause lag for many users. Users will be able to spread out across multiple standard-sized canvases reducing the chance of lag.

To create a multiboard Art Jam, look for the option in the creation modal.

Please see the guide for Multiboards here to help you manage it well.

Art Jams are a public spaces and we have a very diverse group of users from different backgrounds and age groups. We want this to stay a safe and enjoyable space for everyone and so, we have some important rules:

Failing to abide by the above rules may lead to your account being restricted and a potential permanent ban from the platform.

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When it comes to Mature Art Jams, it is important again to remember that this is a public space. The content here is intended for users above the age of 18 and MUST have the NSFW setting on. However, there are still some rules about what is and isn't permitted in these spaces.
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Please see some general guidelines below:

While we are not against sex and fantasy in art, we need to be stricter about our public spaces such as the Gallery and Art Jams.
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For more details, please see our community guidelines here.