Hello!

I wanted to send you all a huge, heartfelt Thank You for your support, encouraging words and love throughout the year.  This morning (yep, exactly one year from the day we met our Kickstarter goal) we launched the new, interactive, multimedia exhibition of Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America!  It's still a little rough around the edges but we are sure proud of it, and proud to have you all by our side.   Stick with us as we share new faces and stories throughout the year...that's 18 short films and over 80 photographs and personal statements to be exact!  ;)

You'll notice that you're all listed as sponsors on our Thank You page.  ...but I'll say it again and again.  THANK YOU.  Without your generosity none of this would be possible.

LOVE,  Molly and Amelia.

www.embodimentusa.com 

BREAKING NEWS!

Thanks to the financial support we received from Kickstarter backers like you, EMBODIMENT: A Portrait of Queer Life in America has been featured in the NY Times on-line! We wanted to let you all know the good news so that you could help us spread the word. Thanks again so much for all of your support. Links to the posts below!

In other news, we are still getting emails from folks who haven't received their rewards. We are so sorry! Send your address + prize request to mollylandreth@gmail.com and we will send it out asap.

#1 LENS BLOG: Slide show of photographs + interview
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/in-a-common-scene-a-queer-subject/

#2 TIMES CAST: A video about the creation of photographs, the video collaboration & web-archive development. It's about 4 min in.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/timescast/1247467375115/index.html

Wishing you all the best this holiday season!
Molly

EMBODIMENT is a multi-media gallery and web-based archive that seeks to represent the many untold stories of LGBTQ individuals in the United States. Beginning in 2011, Embodiment will be launched as an innovative website, featuring new short films and photographs of queer individuals from across the USA every week for a year. This is an international collaboration between artist's Molly Landreth + Amelia Tovey.

This project is sponsored in part by:
4culture, Artist Trust, Kodak, Three Dollar Bill Cinema, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY and over 350 private donors from around the world via kickstarter.co

Hi Everyone,

As we approach the finish line we just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who donated and everyone who came out and supported us in Brooklyn last night. A big thanks in particular to Kashi Somers & our interns Sasha & Morgan. Also want to thank the musicians Alyssa Robbins, Julia Weldon, Anna Morsett and The Ballet.

Thanks again everyone, see you on the other side!

Love,
Amelia & Molly.

WEST COAST PARTY THIS THURSDAY :: SEATTLE
EMBODIMENT: End of Kickstarter Party + MOLLY'S BIRTHDAY
feat. Dance tunes and doll cake by request. come eat yr heart out!
Thurs July 8th @ Watertown Coffee & Saloon, Seattle.
http://www.watertowncoffee.com/

Hello friends,

Amelia here, writing from NYC with good news to share. We reached our goal and we're having parties on the East Coast & West Coast to celebrate! We really want to meet you and your friends so spread the word! In Brooklyn there will be a party / gig / fundraiser with performances by Kaki King, The Ballet & Embodiment subject Julia Weldon. In Seattle Molly is having a dance party celebration to toast to a successful three months of fundraising and her birthday!

Spread the word and help us celebrate the end of such a wonderful & successful fundraising campaign. Thanks to all of you we get to shoot more, edit over 25 short films and create a rockin' website so that you all can see the results!

EAST COAST: BROOKLYN
EMBODIMENT: End of Kickstarter Party!
feat. KAKI KING + The Ballet + Julia Weldon
Mon July 5th @ Littlefield, 622 Degraw st Brooklyn.
www.littlefieldnyc.com

WEST COAST: SEATTLE
EMBODIMENT: End of Kickstarter Party + MOLLY'S BIRTHDAY
feat. Dance tunes and doll cake by request. come eat yr heart out!
Thurs July 8th @ Watertown Coffee & Saloon, Seattle.
http://www.watertowncoffee.com/

Lastly - We have just 5 days left on our Kickstarter campaign!
Do you know someone - a friend or colleague - who would be willing to match your donation dollar for dollar? Do you know people who are interested in making a tax deductible donation or owning a print? We are trying to raise another $2,000 in the next 5 days so that we can add one more state to the project!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/embodiment/embodiment-a-portrait-of-queer-life-in-america

As always, tweet, blog and tumble your faces off ;-)

Hope we see you in July,
Lots of love,

Amelia & Molly

Dear Friends,

We're writing to let you know that last week we reached our goal of $10,000 and have since surpassed it! We're currently sitting at $10,518!

We really want to thank all of you who donated and all of you who sent comments and emails out to your friends - this project really is a success because of word-of-mouth.

We also wanted to let you know that your prizes will be in the mail after the end of the campaign on July 6th, and that in the meantime people can still donate to Embodiment.

Having reached our initial target, we're now aiming to double it in the 48 days left. If we can achieve this, we'll be able to hit the road again and record stories on the east coast and catch up with some people we missed last time including a gay student prom, a gay rodeo, the Pink Pistols gun club and a deaf society in Arkansas.

To be a true national portrait - Embodiment needs more voices, more stories, and more diversity of content.

We'll be doing a big media push next week - please let us know if you'd like a press release or if you know of any media outlets / blogs / radio shows in your area that might want to do a story on Embodiment.

We've already made our goal but there is so much more we can do.

Thanks so much for your support, your kind feedback, your ongoing time and energy - it means the world to us.

Love,
Molly & Amelia xo
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