Tagged: art

January 22, 2018 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Labeling it a “world first,” sales of art at an forthcoming Mayfair art exhibition will be conducted solely in cryptocurrency. Requiem for the Emblem of Power by British artist Paul Wager will commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War will be holding… Read More

November 22, 2017 @ 1:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

YellowDog, a UK-based platform for rendering 3D studios and artists, has successfully secured its initial £600,000 funding target from more than 350 investors on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. Founded in 2015 byGareth Williams, the company stated that it securely harnesses underutilized computer power, enabling organizations… Read More

August 10, 2017 @ 3:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Irish Olympian Jonty Evans launched a self-running crowdfunding campaign to raise £500,000 in order to keep his beloved horse, Cooley Rorkes Drift (AKA Art). Within a matter of a couple weeks, the initiative successfully secured its initial funding target thanks to nearly 3,500… Read More

July 19, 2017 @ 12:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Jonty Evans, an Irish equestrian, has launched his own self-running crowdfunding campaign to raise  £500,000 for his beloved horse, Cooley Rorkes Drift (also known as Art). The campaign’s description reads: “Nations cup, Olympics, Badminton – the success that Art and I have achieved has not gone unnoticed,… Read More

February 18, 2017 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Glamour Dolls Makeup, a New Jersey-based cruelty-free and vegan cosmetic company, has teamed up with famous cartoon artist Lisa Frank to launch a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The duo is currently seeking funds for their new makeup collaboration. Glamour Dolls revealed it is looking to… Read More

April 6, 2016 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rise Art, an online marketplace for contemporary art, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £150,000 as it prepares to expand. The company allows art lovers to easily buy or rent artwork. Its description reads: “We’re changing the way consumers find and own original… Read More

June 20, 2015 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, New York City couple Alex Daly and Hamish Smyth hit crowdfunding giant Kickstarter with a mission to raise $29,800 for their “Big Apple” subway station posters. As a Kickstarter exclusive, the posters are 11 Pantone sport color limited and are licensed by… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 1:13 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Arthena is mixing crowdfunding and fine art to create a modern masterpiece. Founded by 27-year-old Harvard alumna Madelaine D’Angelo, Arthena offers casual investors to fund undervalued, modern artists who are creating art pieces that could quickly appreciate in value, as a recent story in Upstart Business Journal notes…. Read More

March 28, 2015 @ 8:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Baltimore non-profit organization, Section1, opened its new Series A funding round in hopes of revitalize a 3.5-acre abandon site in the city’s art scene under Jones Falls Expressway ready for public view. The organization is dedicated to transforming, vacant, underutilized, or derelict sites… Read More

September 13, 2014 @ 7:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up a new way to create art, London-based Poligon has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for its self-titled sculptures. The foldable metal sculptures are known to be inspired by the animal kingdom. Explaining the cool art kit, the Poligon team noted, “We’ve created a… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

As we move into the fall it seems like crowdfunding campaigns are picking up. We have recently received many cool crowdfunding campaigns and I would just like to remind everyone that data shows that your probability of success jumps dramatically if you have over 30%… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Honoring its mission to discover and cultivate emerging photography talent, non-profit organization, Lucie Foundation, has launched a brand new crowdfunding platform that is exclusively for photo-based projects, Fotofund. Media Bistro reports that Fotofund was created “to provide financial backing to photographic projects through online contributions… Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 6:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Although 2D films are a thing of the past, according to Disney, a group of animators from the production giant have launched a $80,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for their steampunk-themed short film Hullabaloo to life. Within a few days, the project surpassed its initial goal and… Read More

August 15, 2014 @ 4:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Scribble launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for its self-titled pen. After immediately surpassing its initial goal and reaching $366,566 from 1,959 backers, the project was shut down. Now speculation has finally surfaced as to what really caused… Read More

August 12, 2014 @ 7:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based Scribble Technology launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its innovative pen, Scribble. The pen can scan colors from any object and instantly reproduces the color on paper or a digital screen (using the Scribble stylus). With Scribble, scanning and capturing any color is… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 7:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New York-based company Electric Objects has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for its new computer that is made for art, EO1. The company originally decided to raise $25,000 and within 24 hours, it received well over $140,000 from 446 backers. The EO1 is… Read More

May 3, 2014 @ 4:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Adding another event to its Block Party on May 3rd, crowfunding giant Kickstarter announced its hosting the first ever art show on its new gallery. The show will feature a plethora of pieces made by artist who have used campaign website to raise funds and… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 11:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In May of 2012 a campaign for a printed book of web comics was fully funded, having raised $50,000 on a goal of $8,000. The web comics were hosted at PicturesForSadChildren.com. The book is called “Sad Pictures For Children.” Now the project has become a… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could you imagine being able to visualize the sheer size of Wikipedia’s English articles? The free online encyclopedia has been in the works for well over a decade now, and – according to itself, ironically – it now nets 500 million unique visitors and 18… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Just in time for Valentines Day, the worlds first monument to love is crowdfunding now on Indiegogo.  Having raised over $20,000 in the first few days of their fixed funding campaign the global team wants to hit a minimum target of $175,000 to build their… Read More