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    RAIR: Giving Artists Access to the Waste Stream by RAIR Philly

    We're done piloting our program and want to open to the public! Help us meet our goal so we can open for applications in Spring 2013.

    Successful!
    • 108% funded
    • $16,244 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 03, 2012

    Our friends at RAIR are doing amazing work for artists working with reclaimed and recycled industrial materials. Check out their artist in residence program and show your support!

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    Brooklyn’s Rescued Bestiary by Virginia Cahill

    Stories and illustrations of animals rescued by Sean Casey Animal Rescue, in a letterpress printed, hand-bound, limited edition book.

    Successful!
    • 108% funded
    • $5,401 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 10, 2012

    Paws up! We're a little biased because our Program Director adopted a very adorable cat from Sean Casey, but there's no doubt that we want to support these cute, furry mugs.

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    Everything Is Going to Be OK: The Mercer Street Medical Case by Paul Hasegawa Overacker

    A documentary about an overworked family physician pushed to the brink, and primary care in America—in a medical system gone wild.

    Successful!
    • 103% funded
    • $25,931 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 03, 2012

    The next documentary from the filmmaker who made Guest of Cindy Sherman, H-O records the last months of a now-gone-but-not-forgotten SoHo medical center

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    Free mobile dance parties with CHERYL! by CHERYL

    CHERYL will throw free pop-up dance parties all over NYC this summer in our portable dance party mobile. We need a vehicle!

    Successful!
    • 114% funded
    • $4,600 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 19, 2012

    CHERLY makes dream I didn't even know I had come true.

    Please help these proselytizers of ecstasy bring their glitter and blood-soaked happiness all over these streets this summer.

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    ADVANCED STYLE: the documentary by Lina Plioplyte and Ari Seth Cohen

    a colorful documentary about fashionable old ladies

    Successful!
    • 158% funded
    • $55,441 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 23, 2012

    We are lucky enough to spot some of these lovely ladies on the streets in SoHo. Always a day brightener!

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    Songs on Conceptual Art by Crystal Baxley & Stefan Ransom

    A compilation album and accompanying website that features 35 songs based on Sol LeWitt's 35 Sentences on Conceptual Art.

    Successful!
    • 133% funded
    • $1,331 pledged
    • Funded
      May 24, 2012

    Conceptual synesthesia

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    Dirty Looks: On Location, a month of queer interventions by Bradford

    A month-long series of queer interventions throughout New York City. One piece, one setting, each night over the entire month of July.

    Successful!
    • 101% funded
    • $14,247 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 02, 2012

    A Dirty Look you'll love to receive

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    BD WONG: LIVE CONCERT RECORDING of the musical HERRINGBONE by BD WONG

    11 roles! 14 songs! Recording this show for a CD is a dream project for BDW; it's dedicated lovingly to the memory of author TOM CONE.

    Successful!
    • 112% funded
    • $39,353 pledged
    • Funded
      May 22, 2012

    We first fell for BD Wong for the easy confidence he showed on SVU, but now we are excited to see the joyful enthusiasm he'll bring to this role

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    [SIC] APPAREL by Francis Pollara

    [SIC] APPAREL is a collective of individual artists and creative minds who are making an effort to expand their reach through t-shirts.

    Successful!
    • 102% funded
    • $18,522 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 23, 2012

    Sic Apparel combines the artist's residency with retail and support for non-profits in a really dynamic, innovative way. We could see this project growing in so many ways. Support the great work they're doing now with a donation.

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    Mural Tour Bus for The Church of Holy Colors Gallery by Charles Alan Rye

    Please help us convert a school bus into an art bus that will deliver us to project destinations by running off of waste vegetable oil.

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $8,524 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 26, 2012

    Support here and check out the installation later on in Red Hook! Bon voyage, gang!

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    Primary Information 2012 Artists Writing Program by primaryinformation

    Primary Information is inaugurating a new artists writings program in 2012 featuring four new publications by contemporary artists.

    Successful!
    • 103% funded
    • $15,527 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 23, 2011

    Primary Information consistently put out strong work. We can't wait to see what comes out of the new artists writings program. Let's make it happen!

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    Elastic City: 2012 Season of Artist-Led Walks by Todd Shalom

    Elastic City commissions artists to lead conceptual and poetic walks throughout and outside of NYC. Please support our 2012 season.

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $25,143 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 11, 2011

    Because New York is arguably best seen on foot

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    Boxcar Fair a Puppet Production by Little Tybee.

    Artist Tom Haney and Little Tybee front man, Brock Scott, collaborate to produce a one of a kind puppet production.

    Successful!
    • 222% funded
    • $11,131 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 14, 2011

    Kinetic sculpture, puppet show, and instrumental composition... all at once! We are impressed by the incredible work that's already gone into this project. Let's see it happen!

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    The Syntheshredder by Jesse Chorng

    The Syntheshredder is an interactive skate bowl utilizing motion and performance to generate unique sounds and musical compositions.

    Successful!
    • 103% funded
    • $7,579 pledged
    • Funded
      Sep 09, 2011

    skate ramp as musical instrument. rad

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    Pop-Up Co-Op by Gregory Allen

    And now for something completely different. The thing you've been wishing for. A worker-owned organic grocery store in Harlem.

    Successful!
    • 108% funded
    • $24,695 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 20, 2011

    We love the multi-prong approach of this project: providing access to healthy foods as well as work, a living wage, and ownership for young people who have spent time on the street

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    Rebuilding The Silent Barn by Castle Oscar

    The Silent Barn was an all-ages music venue in NYC, home to experiments in music and social culture for 7 years, and hopefully more.

    Successful!
    • 101% funded
    • $40,595 pledged
    • Funded
      Sep 18, 2011

    Silent Barn is what happens when a group of generous and ambitious people work together to make a good thing happen.

    In the face of theft what do they do? Dream even bigger....

    Lets pitch in to help rebuild Silent Barn!

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    155 Freeman: Triple Canopy, Light Industry, Public School by Triple Canopy

    This fall, Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School will launch 155 Freeman, a new arts-and-culture center in Brooklyn.

    Successful!
    • 177% funded
    • $35,465 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 10, 2011

    Three great organizations making the move to Greenpoint!

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    RED SCARE - A Comedic Murder Mystery Web Series by Sam Roberts

    In 1956, ten strangers lock themselves in a fallout shelter during an air raid. One of them is secretly a vampire. Hilarity ensues.

    Successful!
    • 110% funded
    • $13,248 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 22, 2011

    Communists and vampires.
    Comedy and mystery.
    1950s Connecticut.

    Sold.

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    +Pool: A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone by Family and PlayLab

    An initiative to build a floating pool that filters river water off the shores of New York City.

    Successful!
    • 166% funded
    • $41,647 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 15, 2011

    Take a dip and help filter river water, simultaneously!

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    Rabbit Island Artist Residency by Andrew Ranville

    We're building an amazing artist residency on a remote, forested island in the largest freshwater lake in the world. Come along!

    Successful!
    • 119% funded
    • $14,970 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 15, 2011

    Funding to start an artist residency on beautiful rabbit island

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    "Tourist-In-Chief" Public art installation by Leon Reid IV by Leon Reid IV

    "Tourist-In-Chief" is an installation designed by Leon Reid IV to be placed on a statue of George Washington located in New York City.

    Successful!
    • 105% funded
    • $3,167 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 05, 2011

    We definitely want to see GW rocking this ensemble.

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    Got The Power: Boomboxes as Community Soundtracks, Minnesota by Bayete Ross Smith

    "Got the Power" is an interactive public sculpture made out of boom boxes. It broadcasts local peoples' favorite music and memories.

    Successful!
    • 109% funded
    • $4,389 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 26, 2011

    Community mixtape!

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    Stockbox Grocers: Good Food, Where you Live by Carrie Ferrence

    Stockbox Grocers provides fresh produce and essential staples to those who don't currently have access to good food where they live.

    Successful!
    • 134% funded
    • $20,129 pledged
    • Funded
      Sep 15, 2011

    Pop-up grocery store that will turn parking lots/food deserts into delicious and neeeded destinations.