Online Crowdfunding: Essential or Experimental?

Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 9 a.m. - Noon

This workshop has been cancelled due to low enrollment

Hosted by North Park University, Chicago, IL

Half-Day Workshop: $90

3 CEUs

About this Session:  Nonprofits, entrepreneurs, artists and communities are embracing crowdfunding platforms with varied results.  Some projects may not occur without this fluid funding tool. Some organizations receive unexpected media attention with their crowdfunding campaign.  But what happens after the project is funded? Or what happens if the funding goal isn’t met? Participants will take away practical information about various methods to help determine if crowdfunding is the best strategy for organizational initiatives or individual projects. Group exercises and demonstrations will enable participants to utilize these tactics in their work.

Who Should Participate: Fundraising or program staff who are considering online crowdfunding campaigns

About the Presenter: Regin Igloria, M.F.A. maintains a studio practice in Chicago, IL, which revolves around teaching and serving as an arts administrator. He teaches studio courses at Marwen and Continuing Studies courses at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has also taught at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, Rhode Island School of Design, Terra Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2010, he founded North Branch Projects, a community bookbinding facility in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago. Currently he serves as Director of Artists-In-Residence at The Ragdale Foundation. He has exhibited his work locally and internationally, including Zg Gallery, Center for Book Arts NYC, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and the ANTI Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio, Finland. He is a recipient of a 3Arts Teaching Artist Award and an Americans for the Arts Professional Development Fellowship for Emerging Arts Leaders of Color. He received his MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design.