We've launched an exciting new project of our own! Introducing the Kickstarter app for iPhone!
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    Public Functionary: A Responsive Art Space by Tricia Khutoretsky

    Public Functionary is an innovative new exhibition and community art space in Minneapolis, MN. This Kickstarter campaign helps fund it.

    Successful!
    • 103% funded
    • $31,010 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 26, 2012

    An interesting new model for an arts space in NE Minneapolis.

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    Threshold by Rosy Simas Danse

    A dance/art film project by Native American Choreographer Rosy Simas and Japanese-American photographer/filmmaker Douglas Beasley.

    Successful!
    • 109% funded
    • $3,830 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 10, 2012

    We are so enamored with Doug Beasley's work on Local Artist Interview! Can't wait to see this project reach fruition...

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    RE-Scripted A Chapbook Series by Chaun Webster

    RE-Scripted is a chapbook series that will be a part of a radical literacy initiative I will be engaging in, in the Twin Cities.

    Successful!
    • 111% funded
    • $1,665 pledged
    • Funded
      May 25, 2012

    The chapbook/ mix-tape analogy is powerful here. Support this local work and participate in the democratization of publishing.

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    Screen Printing: On the Cheap Book by Screen Printing On The Cheap

    This DIY book project instructs how to screen print out of your living space and design a semi-professional shop with a modest budget.

    Successful!
    • 131% funded
    • $13,128 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 06, 2012

    Give a gal a print & she's got something cool on her wall.

    Teach a gal to print and she's got food on her table.

    Awesome project!

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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.

    Successful!
    • 103% funded
    • $4,120 pledged
    • Funded
      May 25, 2012

    How much do we love this project, born out of the Hot Off The project at The Soap Factory? Well, a lot frankly.

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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!

    Successful!
    • 107% funded
    • $4,304 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 04, 2012

    Local artists making local art? Why, yes please!

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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
    • Funded
      Apr 30, 2012

    Aww, shucks. We're suckers for this lit mag that was founded in Minneapolis.

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    Two-Faced Beauty by Rosemary Williams

    Two-Faced Beauty is a film about 1950s Broadway showgirl Rosemary Williams – a statuesque beauty who shared the same name as me.

    Successful!
    • 106% funded
    • $15,999 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 21, 2012

    Rosemary William's exhibition 'Belongings' at The Soap Factory was breathtaking. We're confident this will be equally fabulous.

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    Kulturpark by Kulturpark

    Kulturpark is a collaborative investigation and public opening in an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin

    Successful!
    • 105% funded
    • $26,366 pledged
    • Funded
      May 01, 2012

    This. is. AWESOME.

    (plus it's a project with our fab Elsewhere friend, Stephanie Sherman!)

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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
    • Funded
      Mar 31, 2012

    We LOVE Salon Saloon! Is it the fabulous guests? The bearded raconteur of a host? The cocktails? Hard to say, we just know this deserves your support.

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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
    • Funded
      Mar 16, 2012

    This is a great looking project by the fabulous artist, Bethany Kalk.

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    Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles NEW ALBUM by Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles

    LMVL is releasing our 4th record and need your help to get printed, pressed, promoted and toured round the country!

    Successful!
    • 104% funded
    • $7,847 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 25, 2012

    Didya know they played The Soap Factory? And people are STILL lovin' on that show.

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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
    • Funded
      Apr 01, 2012

    OH at last year's Northern Spark: "It's like we're in effing Barcelona, or something."

    Yes. Or something.

    Support this.

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    Support the Preservation & Evolution of the Project Lodge! by Bessie Cherry

    Project Lodge is an all ages,100% volunteer-powered & donation-driven performance space,gallery,& community hub for creative culture.

    Successful!
    • 112% funded
    • $9,007 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 18, 2012

    Just a decade ago, The Soap Factory changed from an all-volunteer organization. We have a soft spot for alternative art spaces run by volunteers.

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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
    • Funded
      Feb 18, 2012

    This looks like an inventive, amazing project, involving Soap Factory alum Bethany Kalk.

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    Artist-In-Research at threewalls Chicago, Veronica Bruce by Veronica Bruce

    Evolving Install: Painting as Material Interaction, Repurposing, and the Photograph at threewalls Chicago

    Successful!
    • 114% funded
    • $1,597 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 12, 2012

    Threewalls is a great space. They deserve your support.

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    Distance: long essays about design, published quarterly. by Nick Disabato

    Three essays, five thousand words each, every three months. We want to build a better conversation with you.

    Successful!
    • 150% funded
    • $20,317 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 17, 2012

    Critical thinking and writing about design. 'Nuff said.

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    VALUCO Font Design by Aesthetic Apparatus

    Aesthetic Apparatus needs your assistance in bringing this fussy, ultra-display, beveled typeface to life!

    Successful!
    • 191% funded
    • $9,590 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 31, 2012

    1. We love fonts.
    2. We love Minneapolis.
    3. We love Aesthetic Apparatus.

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    REwork: Participatory Art Projects at ART ATTACK 2012 by Molly

    REwork is a rare exhibition of participatory art projects by seven amazing artists, re-imagined especially for Art Attack 2012.

    Successful!
    • 101% funded
    • $5,007 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 09, 2012

    Audience participation is a key part of our practice, too.