Innovative Models of Support for Artists and Arts Organizations
Monday, October 18, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Organized by Deepa Gupta, program officer, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Presented by Charles Adler, co-founder, Kickstarter.com; Ruby Lerner, executive director and president, Creative Capital; Lorelei Stewart, director, Gallery 400; Shannon Stratton, executive director, threewalls.
This session features new methods of giving to the arts that fall outside traditional philanthropic models and highlights the ways these funding mechanisms differ from the traditional models in who and how they can provide support. The discussion will also address the possible positive and negative effects of the new models on current institutional and individual giving.
Related Links:
- Creative Capital
- Lisa Canning: A New Harvard Case Study: Creative Capital Sustaining the Arts
- Kickstarter
- Jeff Howe, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” Wired Magazine
- Propeller Fund
- Lauren Weinberg, Taking Flight: Chicago's Propeller Fund will support the art projects no one else can, Timeout Chicago
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
