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Mystery Spot Volume 2 by Chad Rutter
Seven artists and writers contribute ideas about nature and place for this limited edition contemporary art book.
- 62% funded
- $2,515 pledged
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Chad Rutter ‘06, Caleb Coppock ‘07, Kate Casanova ‘08 and Pamela Valfer ‘94 are all a part of Mystery Spot Books who is publishing their fifth book.
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Kelly R. Ludeking, Cast Iron Symposium in Scotland by Kelly Ludeking
A once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from and teach to nine other international candidates juried into this elite symposium.
- 11% funded
- $355 pledged
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Kelly Ludeking ’97 travels the country doing iron pours at various venues including schools, colleges, and on his farm. Kelly has been invited to participate in an international symposium in Scotland and is raising the funding for participation in this event.
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just art here by just art here
We're giving a free art experience to the community by exhibiting art on 3 billboards for 60 days.
- 15% funded
- $3,181 pledged
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Linda Lee Nelson ’87 and two other artists are collaborating to place art on billboards in Uptown Minneapolis
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The Habit by Joshua
A collaborative film composed of 5 vignettes by 5 different directors about a smoker named Patrick who decides to kick the bad habit.
- 14% funded
- $280 pledged
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Multiple MCAD alumni are involved in this collaborative film project.
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LegUp Studio...Print Your Art Out! by LegUp Studio
Help LegUp complete our community screen printing studio! Contribute towards a tshirt dryer,or an exposure unit today!
- 89% funded
- $3,594 pledged
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Gilpin Matthews ‘02 helped found LegUp Studio which offers classes, equipment access and more.
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Feminine/Masculine Books by Taylor Baldry
Feminine/Masculine Books is an edu-humor language series that teaches the grammatical genders of Italian, French and Spanish.
Successful!- 111% funded
- $1,116 pledged
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May 09, 2012
Taylor Baldry ‘07 is creating an edu-humor language book series.
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Everything You Hear (working title), an artist book by Melissa Wagner-Lawler
I will be creating an artist book edition at Minnesota Center for the Book Arts using letterpress and photopolymer plates.
Successful!- 103% funded
- $2,590 pledged
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Funded
Apr 30, 2012
MFA alum Melissa Wagner-Lawler is making an artist book this June.
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InDigest: Poetry, Stories, Podcasts, Broadsides, and more by Dustin Luke Nelson
InDigest, an online lit mag, offers podcasts, blogs, digital broadsides, and more. It's outgrown its home, and needs a new one.
Successful!- 127% funded
- $2,543 pledged
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Funded
Apr 30, 2012
Kate Casanova ’08 is an editor of this magazine, and Melissa Loop ’05 is featured in the newest issue.
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Parecomic - a documentary graphic novel by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson
PARECOMIC: a graphic novel about how we might improve society, considering left wing activist Michael Albert's life story and ideas.
Successful!- 107% funded
- $8,600 pledged
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Funded
Apr 23, 2012
A neat documentary graphic novel project by Carl Thompson ‘11.
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In Habit: Living Patterns by Pramila
A dance in an electronic music & video environment that explores the collectively learned habits we practice in our everyday lives.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $4,099 pledged
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Apr 15, 2012
Multiple MCAD alumni, faculty, and students involved in this project which will be performed at Norther Spark this year.
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Northern Spark Twin Cities nuit blanche June 9-10 by Steve Dietz
Northern Spark is a free, dusk-to-dawn arts festival. "Explore a constellation of urban arts and discover the city in a new light."
Successful!- 101% funded
- $10,145 pledged
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Apr 01, 2012
Help support a great Twin Cities arts festival.
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Salon Saloon Vol. 7 Fund Drive by Works Progress
Salon Saloon is preparing for a new round of shows & we need your support. Help us fund the next four shows & put the old shows online!
Successful!- 117% funded
- $4,105 pledged
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Funded
Mar 31, 2012
Alum Amanda Lovelee is part of this exciting project with Works Progress.
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Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality by Raighne Hogan
Little Heart is a 160+ page comic anthology created with the subject of Marriage Equality in mind.
Successful!- 115% funded
- $9,779 pledged
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Mar 16, 2012
Multiple MCAD alumni have contributed to this volume.
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TUMBUNA: Traditional Arts & Crafts of the Sawiyano by bethany kalk
This project is a documentary and book about the Sawiyano who live the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
Successful!- 112% funded
- $5,616 pledged
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Mar 16, 2012
Alum Bethany Kalk is raising funds to make a documentary about the Sawiyano people of Papua New Guinea.
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The Veterans Book Project by Monica Haller
We make soft-bound, print-on-demand books out of personal archives of images, words and memories from the current wars.
Successful!- 109% funded
- $7,630 pledged
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Feb 01, 2011
Monica Haller's ’06 "The Veterans Book Project" is a library of books authored collaboratively by artist Haller and dozens of people who have been affected by, and have archives of, the current American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Art of This - One Nighter Series by Art of This
The 4th annual One Nighter Series is a collection of 8 one-night only art exhibitions and numerous other short-lived art events.
Successful!- 107% funded
- $5,360 pledged
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Aug 14, 2011
Each Summer "Art Of This" gallery programs a series of "One Nighters"-
interesting art events- openings, and performances. This year
several recent MCAD grads are programming this
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12 Short Films in a Year by Julian Williams
Over the course of an entire year (maybe longer), we will write, create, and post a new short film every month.
Successful!- 104% funded
- $520 pledged
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Apr 01, 2012
Filmmaking student Julian Williams '14 is planning to make 1 short film per month for the next 12 months.
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Lovely Dark finishing debut full-length, "Territories" by Lovely Dark
Minneapolis sextet, Lovely Dark, needs your help in finishing their debut full-length record, "Territories"!
Successful!- 221% funded
- $2,660 pledged
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Mar 06, 2012
Max Becker ‘07 is part of the indie rock project "Lovely Dark."
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Communist Daughter to make "Ghosts" Music Video! by Frenchy Lunning
Moving Walkway Productions needs to make a rockin' music video for a remarkable emerging band called "Communist Daughter."
Successful!- 100% funded
- $3,020 pledged
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Feb 29, 2012
MCAD Faculty Frency Lunning's Moving Walkway productions is raising funds to produce a Communist Daughter music video
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Studies in Papua New Guinea: Architecture, Art and Ecology by Brian
Going to Papua New Guinea to build, eat, craft, document, and learn with the Sawiyano Tribe. Creating relationships, essays and art.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $7,064 pledged
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Feb 18, 2012
Brian Nigus ‘11 is traveling to Papua New Guinea this summer to set up a school, do cultural research, and more.
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Primetime by Ryan Waller
Brooklyn-based project and event space Primetime is raising funds to make itself available to artists for free in 2012.
Successful!- 296% funded
- $17,805 pledged
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Funded
Jan 10, 2012
Brooklyn-based project and event space Primetime is raising funds to make itself available to artists for free in 2012.
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Unlocking the Right Brain: A Creative Thinking Workbook by Danielle Feliciano
A hand-bound, hand printed, letterpress workbook full of fun visual exercises and tools to help you learn to think creatively!
Successful!- 104% funded
- $2,600 pledged
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Dec 30, 2011
MFA student Danielle Feliciano is creating a fine press (letterpress) visual workbook to help promote and teach creative thinking.
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Beyond The Light by Garrett Sendlewski
Beyond The Light is a multi media short film. The story of a fantasy world in peril from the loss of its Sun.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $4,600 pledged
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Nov 15, 2011
Garrett Sendlewski ’06 is creating a mixed media film, combining live action, stop motion, and pixelation.
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"Horizons in Translation" @ Metro Gallery by Tim Abel
This site specific installation will be created for the City of Reno’s Metro Gallery in collaboration with local school children.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $1,527 pledged
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Nov 04, 2011
Tim Abel ‘08 is creating a collaborative/site-specifc installation for the Metro Gallery in Reno, NV.
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Necrofusion - an animated production by Amit Tishler
Necrofusion is an animation pilot collaboratively produced by American and Israeli students from different schools and disciplines.
Successful!- 106% funded
- $3,185 pledged
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Oct 18, 2011
Current MFA student Amit Tishler is creating Necrofusion, an anime inspired 2D animation that attempts to produce and establish a darker, more serious approach to the art form.
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Impressions of the Midland: A Photographic Walk from Minneapolis to Chicago by Meg Dolan
Walking from Minneapolis to Chicago on an epic photographic journey inspired by the Pioneering Spirit of Adventure. And making a book if we survive.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $2,236 pledged
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Jul 02, 2010
Meg Dolan, Ben Heyer, and Heather Kraft raised funds to walk from Minneapolis to Chicago and take photos along the way.
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The Ballad of Toby & Sara: Meetings & Greetings by Mike Sgier
A comic with a mix of music, romance, and supernatural mysteries. Help support the next installment of this series!
Successful!- 113% funded
- $625 pledged
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Funded
Nov 07, 2010
Mike Sgier '08 raised funds to produce an installment of his comic series "The Ballad of Toby & Sara"
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Backyard Harvest: Growing a sustainable (& delicious) food system, one yard at a time by Krista Leraas
Help us help city dwellers transform their landscapes into tasty, sustainable AND beautiful mini-farms!
Successful!- 100% funded
- $8,202 pledged
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Sep 01, 2010
Online faculty Krista Leraas raised funds to help city dwellers transform their landscapes into tasty, beautiful & sustainable mini-farms.
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...a trail of HOPE, street photography project by HOPE Art
Papering Port Au Prince with Hope! Large Portraits adhered to walls, will be left as a reminder of goals, hopes and dreams.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $3,962 pledged
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Oct 25, 2011
As part of the HOPE Art team, Kathy Barbro ‘85 wants to leave a trail of HOPE in Haiti by papering the streets with portraits of girls ages 4-15 years old holding up signs explaining their hopes, ambitions and dreams.
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