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“Kickstarter is expecting to raise more than $150 million for its users’ projects in 2012. That’s $4 million more than the ‘entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts.’”
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The Millions : Kickstarter Trumps the NEA
2 days ago … Kickstarter is expecting to raise more than $150 million for its users' projects in 2012. That's $4 million more…

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“I would add that another key difference is that the NEA mostly funds nonprofits, which have to meet certain state and national requirements to ensure fiscal responsibility. When not funding nonprofits, it provides grants to individual artists, who must fill out long applications, which are vetted and selected by experts.”
“Interestingly, of the obviously arts-ish Kickstarter funding that Johnson tallied, film/video is the biggest share, followed, in descending order, by comics, music, art, publishing, theater, photography and dance.”
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Kickstarter and the NEA: Who funds more? – latimes.com
Feb 27, 2012 … Assertions that Kickstarter will eclipse arts funding from the National Endowment for the Arts are greatly exaggerated.

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“To keep everything in perspective Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Policy at Americans for the Arts, asserts, ‘Kickstarter’s $150 million to the arts in 2012 is ¼ of 1 percent of what is needed annually to fund the nonprofit arts sector’s $60 billion in expenditures . . . that is, 1/400th. Or, to put it another way . . . it will take 400 Kickstarter campaigns—at $150 million each—to fund the nonprofit arts sector for a single year.;”
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Kickstarter to Fund More Arts Projects in FY 2012 Than the NEA …
Feb 27, 2012 … Currently, the FY 2012 budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is $146.021 million. Mike Boehm of the LA …

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“Last week 14,952 strangers raised more than $1 million for a cause they believed in: not disaster relief or a cure for cancer, but a web-only comic book. “
“Johnson worries that Kickstarter’s success will encourage calls to abolish government funding of artists. Neither he, nor Kickstarter’s founders, think it should replace the NEA. “If we only make art that’s popular,” he says, “then the guy who made the dogs playing poker and smoking cigars print is going to be the most successful artist of all time.”
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Can Kickstarter Fund Art Better than the NEA? – Studio 360
2 days ago … Last week one of Kickstarter's founders bragged that he expected the three-year- old crowd-funding site to give more …

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“In the comments of the last post, Yancey stated that 70% of Kickstarter’s disbursements happened last year. So from that we can estimate that 2011, Kickstarter disbursed 65.5 Million to core arts funding. Less than half of the NEA’s budget. The point of my original post stands: it’s not close. While my numbers were wildly off, so was comparing Kickstarter’s arts funding to the NEA’s.”
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Information Diet | Kickstarter vs NEA with Real Numbers
Feb 27, 2012 … Yancey posted a response to my post about the NEA and Kickstarter, and in it he states my numbers are inaccurate. Firs…

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“The NEA and Kickstarter exist to fund different art of the arts ecology in this country, and in order for the sector to thrive, we need both,” said Victoria Hutter, an NEA spokesperson, in an email to TPM.”

That’s a pretty stunning quotation when you think about it. It’s astute, and gracious, and thankfully not represented of the cloistered, NyLaChi-based viewpoints we have so often have received from on high.
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NEA Weighs In On Kickstarter Funding Debate | TPM Idea Lab
Feb 27, 2012 … NEW YORK — Does the crowdfunding website Kickstarter really stand a chance at providing more funding to the arts than …

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“And frankly, the seeds of this movement were planted back when the NEA stopped funding individual artists in the 1990′s. Had that process continued right through the culture wars, there may be less of a need for crowdsourcing today.”
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ARTSblog » Blog Archive » Kickstarter Isn't an NEA Substitute, It's …
Kickstarter Isn't an NEA Substitute, It's Another Part of the Arts Funding Ecosystem. Posted by Tim Mikulski On February – 27 -…

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The Caretaker returns with a long-in-the-making soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee’s documentary about German writer WG Sebald. ‘Patience (After Sebald)’ is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss – an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East [...]

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