Posted on: December 7, 2010
"United States Artists, a nonprofit group founded by foundations and wealthy art donors to broaden support for working artists, will unveil a new Web site on Tuesday that solicits small donations from regular people to help underwrite specific artworks... Part social network, part glossy brochure, part fund-raising mechanism, the site seeks to democratize arts patronage as government support for the arts continues to decline and private sources of financing also shrink."
I think this is a fabulous idea! Why shouldn't artists be able to at least try to fundraise money for their projects? Funding for art is low, yet artists do so much (practically everything) for the visual world we live in. So, if the government isn't funding money for these projects, maybe other people are willing, which, a little surprisingly yet thankfully, they are! A lot of artists who tried out this site said they were embarrassed at first to ask for money from others, yet in the end, the Web site attracted "roughly 36,000 unique visitors and raised a total of $210,000, with an average of $120 from each of 1,500 small donors." Some artists raised anywhere from $5,185 to $20,300! Now THAT is exciting!
Check it out! http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/business/07art.html?ref=technology
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