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Amelia Fais Harnas

Corning, NY

She was born with a blue and white sticker on her forehead proclaiming: Future Artist. When she was three or four, she danced in the living room to her favorite music, either Powaqqatsi or Rite of Spring. When she was seventeen or eighteen, she spent... view more

  1. Vermont Studio Residency by benjamin heiken

    Painting Residency at the Vermont Studio Center in early summer 2012.

    • 92% funded $2,762 pledged
    • 26 backers
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    Wood Demon Art Theatre presents Waiting for Godot by Jacob Clary

    Wood Demon Art Theatre presents its second production, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

    • 100% funded $500 pledged
    • 23 backers
    • Funded May 09, 2012
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    Crap Hound #6: Death, Telephones & Scissors! by Chloe Eudaly

    Everybody's favorite picture book for discussion & activity! Crap Hound 6: Death, Telephones & Scissors reprint is ready to go!

    • 100% funded $13,110 pledged
    • 272 backers
    • Funded Apr 04, 2012
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    Liminal presents Gertrude Stein by John Berendzen

    Liminal curates an immersive multimedia performance installation in response to the writings of modernist master Gertrude Stein.

    • 155% funded $1,550 pledged
    • 34 backers
    • Funded Mar 21, 2012
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    BRAINSTORM makes a new one by BRAINSTORM

    We are raising money to record a new full-length record, and to do it right. No cutting corners on this one. We mean business.

    • 156% funded $2,820 pledged
    • 79 backers
    • Funded Dec 26, 2011
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    Quick and Dirty Summer Art-Making Extravaganza! by Amy Greenan

    Making art, plain and simple. This summer has turned into an art-making extravaganza and I need your help to get it all done!

    • 119% funded $1,190 pledged
    • 46 backers
    • Funded Jul 07, 2011
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    Reading Frenzy Print Series: Aaron Renier & Nikki McClure! by Chloe Eudaly

    Celebrate reading, Reading Frenzy, and some of some of our favorite artists by pledging to our project and purchasing our prints!

    • 106% funded $4,245 pledged
    • 111 backers
    • Funded May 16, 2011
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    Ross Beach "Orange Gerbera Daisies", compact disc of sound. by Ross

    Help me press copies of my new, self-recorded, solo album! For a low donation, one of the copies could be yours.

    • 116% funded $698 pledged
    • 43 backers
    • Funded May 10, 2011
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    Sweetie Pie Press 2011 Summer Craft Tour by becky johnson

    An idealistic itinerary of wayward roaming across North America, complete with dispatches from the world of indie art and craft.

    • 104% funded $6,800 pledged
    • 163 backers
    • Funded Apr 27, 2011
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    Crap Hound No. 5: Hands, Hearts & Eyes, 3rd Edition! by Chloe Eudaly

    You can help us publish the next issue of Crap Hound! A great print resource for artists, crafters & designers! 1000s of images!

    • 103% funded $8,308 pledged
    • 197 backers
    • Funded Dec 06, 2010
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    500 Friends of Reading Frenzy! by Chloe Eudaly

    Reading Frenzy is a tiny shop with a big mission: to support and promote independent media and artists. Become our friend and help us grow our dream!

    • 110% funded $5,547 pledged
    • 123 backers
    • Funded Sep 01, 2010
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    Whats Up Magazine Dig Day by Whats Up Magazine

    Dig Day is one of many St. Louis inclusive events held by Whats Up Magazine. One seedling can help support the future of our city and magazine.

    • 100% funded $300 pledged
    • 17 backers
    • Funded Jun 28, 2010
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    10 Year Songwriting Anniversary Golden Spun/Rachel Hays Album and Comic by Rachel Hays

    After ten years of writing songs I am ready to make my first album and put it out with a beautiful comic merging my two loves forever.

    • 119% funded $1,060 pledged
    • 31 backers
    • Funded Jul 08, 2010
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    100,000 Honey Bees to Create One-of-a-Kind Album Art Help Proliferate the Bees! by Why I Must Be Careful

    Custom beehives will be designed and created to house 12" records in wooden frames. Honeybees will be introduced to form honeycomb packaging: Radical!

    • 104% funded $2,750 pledged
    • 54 backers
    • Funded May 03, 2010
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    Lift Off! by LaunchPad

    A creative gathering place in Brooklyn focusing on community programs, the arts, technology, and anything else that captures the imagination.

    • 100% funded $6,000 pledged
    • 123 backers
    • Funded Mar 08, 2010
  16. Launch Alligator Bites and Open Wide to Possibility! by Rhonda Morton

    Alligator Bites invites people to open wide to possibility via 20 on-line workshops, each a do-able 20 minutes long, all for $20. Try the sample!

    Funding Unsuccessful (05/08/2010)
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    Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait! by Chloe Eudaly

    Beloved by artists, crafters and designers alike, Crap Hound is a great resource and a work of art in and of itself. Come on pledgers, let's publish!

    • 118% funded $14,751 pledged
    • 307 backers
    • Funded Feb 12, 2010
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    Mysterious Letters by Lenka & Michael

    Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton are writing a personal, hand-written letter to every household in the world.

    • 109% funded $2,181 pledged
    • 76 backers
    • Funded Nov 09, 2009
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    Robin writes a book (and you get a copy) by Robin Sloan

    I'm writing a detective story set halfway between San Francisco and the internet. And the more people who reserve a copy, the better each one will be!

    • 398% funded $13,942 pledged
    • 570 backers
    • Funded Nov 01, 2009
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    50 Characters in 50 Weeks by Brent Rose

    An attempt to write, shoot, edit, and release one short-film every week, for fifty weeks, each featuring a new, original character.

    • 107% funded $10,702 pledged
    • 156 backers
    • Funded Nov 06, 2009
  21. Revolutionary Perspective Drawing, in a Pop-Up-Card by Ahr + Tee (deleted)

    We invented a new method to represent visual space by using binocular vision in an innovative way. Take a look in our new Pop-Up-Card!

    Funding Unsuccessful (12/02/2009)
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    CAMPER KART Project by Kevin Cyr

    An art project that investigates habitats and housing; recycling and ecology; exploration and mobility; and is an expression of self-reliance.

    • 106% funded $2,130 pledged
    • 63 backers
    • Funded Nov 01, 2009
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    For Thousands of Miles - a documentary about leaving everything behind by Mike Ambs

    We've invested 6 years & almost $35k to get this feature-length doc' to where it stands today. Help us wrap up the last few stages of post-production!

    • 107% funded $8,945 pledged
    • 103 backers
    • Funded Nov 26, 2009
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    Up and Coming: 2010 Exhibitions - Upstate, Upstairs, Outstanding by Exhibit A

    Exhibit A, a gallery started by Ann Welles, in Corning NY, is embarking on its second year of presenting exhibitions.

    • 108% funded $4,545 pledged
    • 69 backers
    • Funded Dec 02, 2009