Redmont Art Archives

The Redmont Art Archives, commonly referred to by their former name AnimeGallery, are a public Art Display and Museum primarily managed by AnimeInc. The Museum consists of four plots in the Richmond area in Reveille. It's part of the broader Art District, a series of plots owned by AnimeInc which provides rentable storage, housing and shop units for Artists.

Location and Structure

The Museum is located between Legacy Street and Constitution Avenue. It's Located on the plots c322, c323, c324 and c325. The precice coordinates are 3271 ~ 3846. It is made up of two large brick buildings, each being four floors tall. The East building is slightly shorter than the West Building. It also features an extensive Basement. The two blocks are connected with a Sky Bridge in the middle.

Staff

The primary owner of the Gallery is AnimeInc. The building was formerly owned by ToasterWars, who gave it up after having quit the server. The current Head of Staff is Katto. A current employee is crayzwolfqueencx. Notable previous staff members include SpiritzBeyond, Starlight0661 and Arctic_Fox10.

History

Early History (October 2023 - June 2024)

ToasterWars initially purchased the plots of the Gallery in October of 2023. The Gallery first started in December 2023 as ToasterWars' Headquarter for his Art Company BijitsuCo. It originally had a display for Toast's Art in the bottom floor, above being a hat store and a staff room, and a floor of rentable shops. The Top floor consisted of 2 rentable plots, Anime's storage room and SurviveBar. In January of 2024 AnimeInc successfully approached ToasterWars about using the space of the Hat Store as a Gallery, to display his art collection. The first Artist who was approached about the gallery was gracie_eggs. She accepted and put 4 art pieces on display. He then contacted Dart, who also accepted and had his art put on display. When modernmagick was approached, she initially hesitated but later agreed. When AnimeInc contacted Katto, the biggest artist at that time, he was ignored at first. After that, lily_achuu agreed to have her Art put up. After befriending Arctic_Fox10, they too were pursuaded into putting their art on display and joined the Gallery Staff. At this point, ToasterWars has already consented to the second floor being used for Art as well. For the next artist, Taelor's art was purchased out of a chestshop rather than donated. AnimeInc then put his own art on display as well. Political art was also slowly collected over time. In April, BijitsuCo disbanded and the Gallery was renamed to AnimeGallery - its' logo being made in the same month. The third and fourth floor had then been stripped of their rentable units, with more displays being put up. LandoPlayzo, spinn16 On April 7th Starlight0661 joined and was befriended by AnimeInc - immediatelly starting to paint and putting her art on display. She and fellow artist IisForIzzy both semi-joined the gallery, though Starlight0661 took a more relevant role in the Gallery. Throughout this time AnimeInc was still collecting art from all around the server. In May, the collection continued to grow, ArcticFox_10 painted a logo for the gallery and AnimeInc stopped stocking SurviveBar, which remains a time capsule to this day.

"Katto and Kloda Era" (June 2024 - November 2025)

Kloda agrees to join the Gallery after visiting and really enjoying it. Katto is then asked by Kloda to join but, again, hesitates. As this continues, AnimeInc starts putting older Art he had until then in storages up. In July, Katto, after having won the June 2024 Aventura mayoral Election with AnimeInc, joins the Gallery after becoming friends with him. The adjacent plots c323 and c325, which would later make up the Western Block, have also been purchased around that time. In August, Katto made a deal with AnimeInc, purchasing a private floor for his own art. He also began donating money to the gallery. This was the start of the "Katto floor", which would slowly progress over the coming months. At this time, AnimeInc also met with Epiphone, with Epi's art being the first to be put up in the new Western Block. AnimeInc continued collecting time and displayed it. A29_2 was also hired. In October, ToasterWars, until then owner of the gallery, sold his share to AnimeInc and quit the server. Along this time, most of the staff members of the Gallery also quit.

Photography, Staff Action and Recovery (December 2024 - present)

In December, the photography plugin was introduced allowing AnimeGallery to obtain a lot of Camera Photos - them getting their own section. In January, after the Trolligarch video has sparked an unprecedented amount of new player joins, server lag has spiked dramatically - forcing staff to put lag prevention practices in place. One of these was the reduction and removal of Item frame usage, which the Gallery had around 2000, over half the entire server's amount, of, to display its art. Gallery Leadership was kindly approached by Staff, mainly Technofied, to reduce most of their Item Frames and to continue operating in a very reduced form. This eventually led to the Gallery closing for a month, as AnimeInc and Katto were very discontent over the state of the Gallery. In February, the Gallery began gradually reopening and the Sky Bridge, merging the Eastern and Western Blocks, was introduced. The Name was also changed to "Redmont Art Archives". Over the next months the Instituion gradually reopened to a reduced scale, putting up most of its former Art. Because of the success of the Gallery, AnimeInc is now highly respected amongst the Art Scene. The Gallerys' success has also prompted multiple other Galleries to open up - with most being indirectly linked or partnered to the Redmont Art Archives.