Democratizing the fine art of drawing from life. Love this project.

Mermaids and art and Brooklyn at its old-school finest. If you don't know the Mermaid Parade, now's your chance to get acquainted.

Excellent example of how to do a project for a creative space on Kickstarter. Considering how quickly they hit and doubled their goal, I am sure the social media tells a story as well.

This Bay Area artist is making a giant painting for an upcoming gallery show. Lots of art (prints, drawings, paintings) in exchange for your support!

Banish your unmentionables and preserve your treasures through this conceptual art adventure to the arctic.

Delightful cookbook project, delightful Kickstarter video. Enjoy!

Sweet project, and for my $10 pledge I have access to an online pre-release screening. YES.

Famous new media artist Jeremy Bailey wants recognize Kickstarter backers as the patrons they are. Back Jeremy's project, and he might just honor you with your own augmented reality portrait.

The first professionally printed issue of a biannual magazine.

Dancers and choreographers interested in using Kickstarter, this is a great model project you should check out.

Nice way to handle reward descriptions...start with great copy, end with brackets calling out what the tier includes. Very readable!

(and totally great community food project too!)

Art, tech, invention, new frontiers. Its all here. Not just a film, but a new way of making and experiencing film.

Its times like these that I wish I was an omnivore. This magazine-as-recipe-card is a beautiful concept, and with award-winning chefs, designers and photographers on board, will likely be a beautiful publication!

Straight-forward, small publishing project from two friends living in London.

Check out their sweet & simple video: pictures from a phone + music.

At Kickstarter HQ we often talk about "Kickstarter as a medium." The GLI.TC/H crew has taken this idea an run with it....check out their project to see their hack of the Kickstarter project page.

Video video video. Watch this video. (and...Pho fans this project goes out to you.)

Engaging community in contemporary art "that responds to current technology, communication and culture." Based in a favorite city, and offering up some lovely new work. All plusses in my book!

People are always asking me how a non-profit can run a good Kickstarter project. Do it like this.

A project interrogating personal memory manifesting in photography, design, video and print media. Great model for taking an abstract concept and making it physical. Nice t-shirt too. :)

A mapping + lithography project after my own heart.

To the point. A great example of a straight-forward way that a public art project can engage a community through a Kickstarter project, and fund itself. Check it out.

For all you miniature art aficionados out there, check this one out. Like a Cornell Box, but tiny. Start your a collection for just $20.

This is how its done ladies and gents; Help us make our printshop, we'll make you sweet hand-printed treats.

Volume 1 of this project was a favorite Kickstarter of mine, happy to see it return for more.

If you are at all curious about contemporary music from outside your everyday, this is so worth checking out.

A totally special collection of prints of hand-collaged posters bound-up just for us Kickstarter backers. Love it.

"The Projects is modeled on a new breed of European comics festivals that put creativity and connection at the forefront."

LIKE. Not to mention the $20 reward is a very cool anthology featuring comics from around the world.

Check out this collaboration between artists, designers, writers, and mixologists. Free to the public this fall as part of FIAF's always great NYC Crossing the Line Festival, with PS 122.

This piece has shown at Watermill and MASS MoCA; I think it is going to be pretty great.

Really loving this Seattle-based group and their music. I wonder if I can make it out for their BBQ? Do you think they would make something vegan for me?

In the meantime enjoying their music, and totally looking forward to more.

SO exciting. This doc follows the true life story of an ABT principal at the height of his career and as he thinks about what's next.

Through this project you can follow his story as it develops, meet Marcelo in person, and see him do what he does best, IRL. !

More dance, more love. This project from a San Francisco-based trio of very legit dancers and writers.

See it live during July if you live in SF, or pledge to this project to collect sweet ephemera from the making of this transmedia dance work.

Brooklyn-based artist Mike Perry makes beautiful things. He wants to bring his work to his Crown Heights neighborhood where he will create an artistic wonderland for play & exploration. It will be free to visit with many free workshops.

Buy Mike's art, make this idea a reality.

An NYC treasure, Eyebeam has been funding new explorations into art and technology for over 15 years. This Kickstarter is to engage designers and artists in remaking their bookstore lobby into an interactive gallery, social space and much needed coffee shop in West Chelsea.

Kissing will ensue.

A new favorite dance project from a new favorite collective of NYC dancers.

Coooooool. and: Yum! If only I lived in SF.

If you are lucky enough to be in the Bay Area, check this out: A plethora of parties with tasty food await you.

This is ACRE's >THIRD< Kickstarter project, and every time it just gets better and better.

Recipes, art and tea towels await you when you get involved with this vital artist residency.

This is what happens when a dancer and a film-maker—both working at the leading and most experimental edges of their craft—come together for a true collaboration.

Fun little public art meets technology meets flash mob on wheels project!

Such a ridiculously simple idea, and so many fun opportunities!

What is it like to be an artist aboard a ship bound for the North Pole? What if there are scientists aboard your ship? The dinner conversations must be remarkable.

Community Supported GAMING. Brill.

These two just may be living my fantasy life. Fingers crossed the guides they are writing will get me that much closer to being just like them.

Pour yourself a glass of prosecco, and enjoy a great 5 minute Kickstarter video.

A sweet collaboration between an artist and musician.

Woot! A group of artists are taking over an abandoned amusement park in Berlin this summer for play and adventure.

I love these photos. The images of each site are just the premise for sharing something bigger.

This festival is what made part of my time in Chicago so totally wonderful. If you care about local artists, and artisans, local beer, art and fun, check it out!

$1 = Nothing. Finally, someone 'fesses up. Beautiful fashion project with rewarding rewards that are almost as fun to read as they are to back!

A pledge to this project comes with a limited edition poster (see that one with the bull? thats it!). Art meets Occupy meets Kickstarter. <3

"We’re going to build MATTER, the new home for the best journalism about the future."

Love all the faces and places in this project. A global movement coming to life with our participation!

Totally, thoroughly in love with this dude's drawings. Check out his website or Tumblr for the complete set (to-date) and join me in my campaign for global admiration.

4 friends who draw comics have combined their magical powers to produce 4 art books containing previously unpublished work. Collect them all. Charmed!

Lovely project for tinkerers, photographers, citizen scientists, activists, artists, and I am sure many many others. Check it out.

Sweet and adventurous theater project with rewards that make sense (like tix for $20 and invites to play with the performers or even your own private performance.) Do it like this.

It's the Tech+ Art/Music/Fashion/History/Culture/Love issue of this beautiful periodical. $8 gets you a special copy, $23 gets you this copy, the next issue, exclusive access to digital content and a CD. Can't beat it.

An irresistible book project from a talented and prolific illustrator. You can visit his website to get a sneak-peak of the book he wants to publish, wipe up your drool, and come back to this project to get the book for yourself.

Four stories from Detroit about "cars and the human body and dirt and blood and skin and oil and gas fumes" illustrated by Matthew Barney, and bound up in a full-color zine. Beautiful.

$100 for the donut party pack and every $1 gets you a donut. Yum.

This is a participatory art project. This is an iPhone app that will be something like Instagram meets fridge poetry. This is a really cool project by an artist and poet you would like. Check his project out, and fall in love.

"It's not that I wasn't living, it's that I wasn't paying attention." A real story about a small corner of life in New Orleans, told through images and words.

My coworker Justin came up with this totally lovely Kickstarter project. Glögg for all!

A Kickstarter project video that is a trailer that is a short film....that I love. Prepare for heartbreak and wonder.

A special opportunity for Kickstarters: An exclusive digital pre-release and/or a limited edition hardback of this graphic novel written by the talented Alex de Campi (Eisner nominated "Smoke").

I was lucky enough to work in some Brooklyn public schools a few years ago. The teaser video for this doc is funny and true and a little painful. Watch it to get a taste of this inspiring story.

Such a perfect project, love the story, love the images, love that it is a photo book from a person with a camera and an idea. More reasons to wake-up early!

This NYC docu-treasure was funded by the NEA last time around. This time, never before seen archival footage can be brought to life by us. Let's do it.

Perfect timing for the winter doldrums! Fresh, living greens in your window to brighten your day and add that fresh spring flavor to your meals. Seriously though, I love this project.

A lovely homage to women and our work by an emerging artist. Rewards include your own embroidery kit, and original artwork.

A delightful world of imaginary creatures come to life with these beautifully crafted silk-screened prints.

The four horsemen will herald the apocalypse just for you. This oversized calendar, each month featuring an apocalyptic vision depicted by a talented artist. Dates are annotated with our human accomplishments, trumpeting our successes, even as we rush to meet our doom. Yay.

I think this is what it is all about.

(I am supposed to write my own blurb, but Scott's is so good! "Own the Present.")

This project is SO COOL.

As a grrl who grew up in the latter 2 decades of the 20th century, how could I not love this project. Not to mention that Sini totally nails her project video and rewards and updates and everything. Go!

These ladies have won my heart in just minutes, can't wait to see the full feature. And taste their cookies!

These people have been bringing it to the NYC scene for years; support their vision and support your happiness!

Another good thing from Vincent Moon: Some films for the fans.

I love that this crew of crazy talented musicians spends most of their project video sharing their music with you. The rest is to tell you how to get more.

After a 20-year hiatus, Jean Nicolazzo has reclaimed her identity as an artist (go Jean!). To jumpstart her career, she has challenged herself to make this series of new paintings. Take a look at her lovely work.

"Make Makeshift a reality and launch a global maker revolution." Couldn't have said it better myself.

Artist Greg Antrim Kelly's "Pigeon" will take the form of a limited edition 3-volume set of illustrated cards printed on an off-set press. An art book that is actual art. Yes, please!

The Yes Men want to share their genius with the world. You can make it happen.

I have always had a soft spot in my hear for Mexican wrestlers (but then again, who hasn't?); add portrait photography and sweet rewards to the mix and I am having a hard time thinking of why not to back this project.

An essential NYC venue stages its comeback.

For the love, for the art. This crew is too sweet to resist.

1 mix tape from 1 lonely blue whale.

Music+Art+Education+Ethnography Creative Collaboration in Morocco. It is September and these people are still in Morocco, making magic. <3

I want to hear the music that this thing can make.

This project is art art art. As Alex says, his rewards are "actually awesome."

A beautifully done project. Check it out for ideas on making a nice book project. Really!

I was lucky enough to be in the crowd for this puppet performance. As a certified puppet nerd, I can say with some authority: It was an excellent experience. Excited to see what Dax's next project will be (hopefully in NYC!)

A beautiful handmade art book with mixed media content that is actually interesting. Nice.

Open Source Real Time 3D Animation Tool. I really have nothing to add; what more could you want?

Citizen Journalism + MacGyver like ingenuity.

Fine Art Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya collects and edits a series of 500+ images made during a year-long residency at Studio Museum Harlem.

Artist and Activist Steve Lambert wants to know if Capitalism Works for You? He sets out to find out with this touring interactive public art installation.