Kickstarter Arts

On Kickstarter, artists are stepping outside their traditional practices to develop everyday products for public use. With Designed by Artists, we're celebrating their projects. Take a look: kck.st/2CLEzyC

How will you send up the ones we’ve lost? That’s the question at the heart of Aleshea Harris’s new performance work, which invites viewers "to bravely reimagine our world as a place where Black bodies are not just safe, but uplifted." kck.st/2NxqZRf

Through puppetry, butoh, and dance, @PhantomLimbCo examines the fallout of the most fatal natural disaster in history: kck.st/2wqZbXf

.@AFHBoston helps under-resourced youth secure jobs in art and design. Join them in expanding their studio space and doubling the number of positions they offer for young people in the creative economy: kck.st/2LiuclC

How do you create a research-driven artwork? Here are some best practices from designer, researcher, and artist Caroline Sinders: kck.st/2MZOsu6 (via @thecreativeindp)

Every New Year's Eve in Holland, two neighborhoods build rival bonfires on the beaches of The Hague. With his new photobook and film, @mossless will trace the wild and fascinating history of this tradition: kck.st/2Mozstc

Help an artist collective launch a card game, textbook, and website that teaches new methods of creativity and collaboration: kickstarter.com/projects/bfamf…

.@leannesurfleet's debut book of photography will capture 10 years of self-portraits exploring loneliness, nostalgia, anxiety, and light: kickstarter.com/projects/13979…

On September 27, join @kickstarter and @caavisual at Kickstarter HQ in Brooklyn to hear how artists, curators, arts workers, and scholars are finding support and resources in an evolving arts landscape. RSVP here: kck.st/2AX0oer

At @edfringe this weekend? Join @kickstarter's Senior Performance Lead, Jessica Massart, this Saturday for a workshop on how to run a Kickstarter campaign: kck.st/2vqGPGm #KickstarterEdFringe

How can artists, galleries, and nonprofits in San Francisco navigate the increasing cost of living and identify local collectors? On August 28, join @kickstarter and @Artadia at @MNStProject for a conversation about supporting the arts in the Bay Area: kck.st/2vL8gdg

Furry sushi, fuzzy tomatoes, and felted pork chops: artist and Kickstarter creator Lucy Sparrow has brought her felt convenience store concept to L.A. kck.st/2M4NPSE (via @artnet)

The second instalment in @mccoyspace and @JennMcCoySpace's trilogy of experimental art films about contemporary architecture, class, and economic precariousness explores the ways people survive in the gig economy: kck.st/2Liv5eF

Join artist Ebony G. Patterson in reclaiming and recognizing the history of an overlooked site, filling a defunct public pool with flowers, toys, candy, and personal effects: kck.st/2LdveDx (📷: Ebony G. Patterson, … buried again to carry on growing …)

Artist Ryan Gander is teaming up with a group of elementary school students to create a series of public sculptures for the Liverpool @Biennial. Be a part of it: kck.st/2uxgTHt

18 artists. 160 photos. 100 voices. Join @wdet in creating a photobook and multimedia exhibition that tells the stories of 10 communities with a rich legacy in Detroit: kck.st/2tXgqPs

"A political system has set up opposition, but through art we seek to unite." —#forfreedoms collaborator and organizer Tanya Selvaratnam kck.st/2KL0Flh

New York City's vanishing mom-and-pop shops have reappeared, in the form of a public art installation: kck.st/2IFojxu #Kickstarted

Tauba Auerbach's "dazzled" fireboat has set sail in New York: kck.st/2lJzImS

.@RisaPuno's intricate, interconnected mosaic tabletops celebrate harmony and inclusion. Help bring this interactive installation to @TheAldrich's sculpture garden: kck.st/2tcYZJx