Now here’s a great idea: crowdsource the funding for your art project.
Kickstarter helps artists find small-dollar patrons. They’ve got a pledge approach to funding, an interesting and sensible all-or-nothing policy for the artist, and they’ll take 5% of the money if and only if you reach the full level of funding.
I love that the internet makes this kind of activity not only possible, but inevitable somehow. Artists have always been supported by community, directly or indirectly; and now “community” can be any of us with a computer and some change in our pocket. Go check it out. Be a patron. Post a project. Create, share, connect.
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