Leon Reid IV

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Brooklyn, NY

Leon Reid IV, Born: Richmond, VA 1979 Education: BFA Pratt Institute '02 MA Central St Martin's '04 Lives/works: Brooklyn,NY Listed as one of the “60 Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future” by Thames & Hudson, Leon Reid IV has been on the edg... view more

Tumble Mural Grows in Brooklyn. by Kathryne Hall

Help local artist and community group transform their public library this summer with contemporary mural, "TUMBLE".
- Public Art
- Brooklyn, NY
- 92% funded $5,981 pledged
- 82 backers
La Luz (The Light): An Art Installation for Qorikancha, Peru by el celso

La Luz is an ephemeral work that utilizes the sun and soda to create golden light at the most sacred Inca sun temple - Qorikancha.
- Public Art
- Cusco, Peru
- 103% funded $5,194 pledged
- 91 backers
The Heirloom Chef by Maggie Lawson

Support The Heirloom Chef in launching a business to sustain Bay Area Change Makers with personalized, nourishing meals.
- Food
- Oakland, CA
Funding Unsuccessful (04/20/2012)
Funded!
The Audacity of Louis Ortiz by Ryan Murdock

What if one day you looked in the mirror and saw the most powerful man on earth? Would you have the audacity to make the most of it?
- Documentary
- Brooklyn, NY
- 108% funded $27,013 pledged
- 751 backers
- Funded Mar 14, 2012
Black in Appalachia = Affrilachia! by Marie Cochran

Help us document pioneering visual artists and celebrate the diversity of the Appalachian region
- Documentary
- Asheville, NC
Funding Unsuccessful (04/01/2012)
Funded!
ArtUp: Growing Public Art in the LES by Fourth Arts Block

Support the expansion of FABnyc's ArtUp program, which animates underutilized spaces in the LES through art and community partnerships.
- Art
- Lower East Side, NY
- 112% funded $3,361 pledged
- 73 backers
- Funded Dec 29, 2011
Funded!
Help put When the Drum is Beating in Theaters and on TV by Whitney Dow

Help ensure the award winning film When the Drum is Beating is distributed to the world.
- Documentary
- New York, NY
- 101% funded $65,749 pledged
- 361 backers
- Funded Dec 05, 2011
Funded!
Help Art in Odd Places 2011 festival publish a catalogue by Art in Odd Places

This Kickstarter project will fund the design and production of a catalog for the Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL festival.
- Public Art
- New York, NY
- 101% funded $3,050 pledged
- 26 backers
- Funded Oct 13, 2011
Funded!
Make Capitalism Work For Me! by Steve Lambert

A 9ft tall x 20ft long flashing sign and digital scoreboard asking passers by "CAPITALISM works for me!" true or false?
- Public Art
- Cleveland, OH
- 178% funded $16,986 pledged
- 434 backers
- Funded Aug 06, 2011

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Tumble Mural Grows in Brooklyn. by Kathryne Hall

La Luz (The Light): An Art Installation for Qorikancha, Peru by el celso

The Heirloom Chef by Maggie Lawson

The Audacity of Louis Ortiz by Ryan Murdock

Black in Appalachia = Affrilachia! by Marie Cochran

ArtUp: Growing Public Art in the LES by Fourth Arts Block

Help put When the Drum is Beating in Theaters and on TV by Whitney Dow

Help Art in Odd Places 2011 festival publish a catalogue by Art in Odd Places

Make Capitalism Work For Me! by Steve Lambert

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