Kickstarter.com helps to launch BECA ICAD | Curate This 2010 | Calls to Artists + Designers
BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
www.theBECAfoundation.org www.BECAICAD.org www.CurateThis.org
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THANK-YOU! to Kickstarter for helping us to officially launch the BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) development in New Orleans
After announcing 2 weeks ago that the BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) development will be located in New Orleans, LA, we just received some very exciting news from Kickstarter, the innovative social fundraising platform…we have been invited to create our own Kickstarter project!
Kickstarter.com is an all-or-nothing platform. Projects must raise every penny of their project’s goal in order to receive funds. If they don’t, they receive $0. A unique feature of the Kickstarter platform is that it is a ‘give and get system’. At each pledge level, as low as $1, each backer receives something in return if the project reaches its goal. The planned BECA ICAD facility will occupy 10,000 - 50,000 square feet (929 sq. meters - 4,645 sq. meters) depending on the overall funds raised. Our organization has a goal of raising $300,000 in order to secure the location for the facility and begin renovation/construction. The BECA Kickstarter project is located at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/9651403/beca-icad-international-center-for-art-design
Creative projects by New Orleans artist Shawn Hall and New Orleans’ Curious Tribe publication InvadeNOLA have paved the way on Kickstarter for other creative producers in New Orleans. BECA is the first non-profit arts organization based in New Orleans to have been invited to have a project on Kickstarter and we’re jumping right in with both feet. Kickstarter is a great way for BECA to begin its pre-development campaign and we are grateful for the opportunity.
We’ve made our pledge amounts easy: $1, $5, $10, $35, $50, $100 and $500 - each is associated with a different thank you level. You can help to make this new large scale exhibition facility dedicated to exhibiting works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers a reality by clicking the Kickstarter project link to learn more.
Special thanks to those who have already joined us as backers with a BECA ICAD pledge amount. We’re off to a great start and want to also thank everyone for their help thus far in spreading the word about our Kickstarter project via email, facebook, twitter, you tube, etc. and throughout your own networks. As a result of your help in spreading the word, we recently received our first in-kind construction materials donation pledge! It doesn’t count toward our Kickstarter totals but every little bit helps and is most welcomed.
New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING NEW ART + NEW DESIGN + NEW IDEAS!
We have much work ahead but we’re committed to making it a reality for the benefit of artists, designers and the public!
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Weigh in on the Future BECA ICAD exhibition programming
Now through April, artists, designers and art/design enthusiasts are invited to share their thoughts on the exhibition facility’s future international art + design exhibition programming. Please contact BECA at mail@thebecafoundation.org or 504-566-8999 to reserve your place during one of the upcoming small, in-person programming input sessions in New Orleans. If you are unable to attend in person, please click here to visit an online form where you may include your input. This facility will serve the local, national and international art + design communities as well as the participating public. All public input is welcome! _________________________________________________________________________________________
Job Opening: Development Director
BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art is seeking a Development Director. Complete information may be found at: http://www.thebecafoundation.org/global/employment.html
__________________________________________________________________________________________ BECA Accepting Guest Curator Proposals BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art is now accepting exhibition proposal summaries from both professionally affiliated and independent curators. Proposal summaries are being reviewed for consideration with regards to the exhibition planning through December 2010. Exhibitions will be held at the temporary home of BECA ICAD located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center. Read More
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FUTURE FORWARD Call to Artists + Designers
An International Exhibition of New Works of Art + Design by both Emerging Artists + Designers
Opening Reception: May 1, 2010
* submission receive deadline: April 3, 2010 *
The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the ‘FUTUREFORWARD’ exhibition of international works of new art + new design at BECA ICAD. This call to artists and designers will remain open through April 3, 2010. Exhibition dates: May 1 - 29, 2010. From the submissions received, 4 to 8 artists and designers will be selected by BECA Foundation directors to participate in the group exhibition highlighting works that reveal an idea, message, contribution, warning or solution that if carried forward may profoundly impact the future – be it positively or negatively.
With a growing international BECA network now approaching 30,000, it is more important than ever for BECA to ensure that in addition to hosting the physical exhibition at BECA ICAD at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center, the exhibition also be made available online at www.BECAICAD.org for those who are unable to attend in person.
Exhibiting artists + designers will have their work published in both soft cover and hard cover editions of the upcoming publication, ‘FUTUREFORWARD’. Artists + designers will also receive Feature coverage in a special edition e-publication covering the exhibition which will be distributed to over 19,000 journalists, writers, curators, collectors, gallery and studio directors in the US and abroad.
Complete info. may be found at: hhttp://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-submissions.php
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OTHER BUSINESSES, and CREATIVE PRODUCERS
CURATE THIS! 2010 is the second installment of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art. It has evolved from one exhibition location into a global art + design exhibition and arts + cultural exchange event taking place in multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world from July 1 – December 31, 2010. Through the introduction and exhibition of works of new art + new design and related projects by artists, designers, duos, groups and collectives around the world, The BECA Foundation aims to facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for creative innovation in diverse locations around the world. Read More
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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ART + DESIGN PROGRAMMING FOR PROGRESS + POSSIBILITY
BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art. The BECA Foundation is a non-profit global arts organization dedicated to creating public exhibition and other related opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists + designers for the benefit of artists, designers and the public. Over the past two years our young organization has grown from an interesting idea to a rare gallery space highlighting works by both emerging artists + designers to a global arts organization instigating arts + cultural exchange and facilitating experimental cross-pollination of new ideas for creative innovation in diverse locations around the world. We are now embarking on the development of BECA ICAD - the world’s first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the exhibition of new works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers. For further information, please visit www.thebecafoundation.org, www.CurateThis.org and www.BECAICAD.org. Forward to a Friend SmartUnsubscribesm This email was sent to artlistpro@gmail.com by mail@thebecafoundation.org
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