Welcome to Kickstarter! This article will point you toward some of the Kickstarter Arts Team's favorite resources, tips, and tools when making a campaign in the Arts, Photography, and Fashion categories.
Whether you're printing your first photobook, making a sustainable sportswear line, or building a new monument for your community, see how some of our favorite past creators priced their rewards, planned outreach, and made their project possible.
As a first step, we recommend checking out our Creator Handbook.
If you’re a student of art, we’ve collated some helpful resources, guides, and tools to assist you with your Kickstarter campaign.
We’ve also collated some guides, tools, and tips to help non-profit organizations.
These artists and photographers share their tips on preparing for your project, planning your rewards, building a community, and maintaining momentum.
Make sure to check out this creative person’s guide to thoughtful promotion from our friends at The Creative Independent too.
Visual artist, Emma Kohlmann, talks about becoming comfortable with the idea of being an artist.
Robin Cembalest, an editorial strategist, shares tips for using Instagram as an artist.
Artist, Shantell Martin, opens up about how sharing her creative process with supporters has helped inspire her practice. She also spoke with our colleagues at TCI on finding self in drawing.
In 2009, Rob Gorski bought an island on Craigslist. In 2011, he ran a Kickstarter project to turn Rabbit Island into an artist residency.
We asked ten artists what social practice means to them, and about its importance during this pivotal moment in time.
Artist Risa Puno used Kickstarter to build an escape room to address social inequality in the USA, check out this conversation between her and Justine Ludwig.
Looking to extend your practice beyond the gallery and sharing your thoughts in a practical context? Here are 5 product design and manufacturing tips — for artists.
In 2018, we reached the milestone of 2 million backers pledging $100 million to projects within the Art category.
Check out this piece by our Senior Director of Arts, Patton Hindle, on why artists should be allowed to fail.
And lastly, be sure to read this creative person’s guide to feeling healthy.
If you’re looking for some inspiration, take a look at the Art Explore page. We’ve also shared some of our favorite projects below:
Pope.L, a visual artist and educator, used Kickstarter to call attention to the Flint water crisis by bottling contaminated Flint tap water and selling it at What Pipeline in Detroit.
jackie sumell, an artist, organizer and abolitionist, created The Prisoner’s Apothecary to help us rethink America’s reliance on punishment and control. The apothecary is designed by prisoners and described as a “Plantbulance” (a mobile healing unit).
The Royal Academy of Arts brought Ai Weiwei’s Tree sculptures to London. They used Kickstarter to give as many people as possible the opportunity to be involved.
Amplifier’s campaign, We The People, worked with activist artists to create a series of images that ‘capture the shared humanity of our diverse America’, for the inauguration and beyond.
Creative Time, a public arts non-profit, helped artist Risa Puno debut her largest public project in the form of an escape room that examined issues surrounding social dynamics.
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