Mark Bradford Donates $100,000 to Launch a Kickstarter for Artists

It’s always nice to see that artists appreciate and return support to those that have supported them when they become successful. Don’t forget that success can be measured in many ways, not just financial.

Arts Policy: Mark Bradford Donates $100,000 to Launch a Kickstarter for Artists:

“The new Web-based project, created by United States Artists, enables crowd-funding of art projects.

NEW YORK—The art market may be back, if we are to believe the feeding frenzy at last week’s Miami art fairs, but artists can always use new avenues of funding (and not everyone loves the art-fair rat race anyway). Now, the grant-making nonprofit United States Artists is opening up a new front for artists looking to realize projects: a “fund-raising social networking Web site,” dubbed USA Projects. According to the Wall Street Journal, the initiative is set to be announced tonight at a gala marking the organization’s fifth anniversary at Jazz at Lincoln Center. And it has found at least one high-profile art-world supporter in the celebrated mixed-media artist Mark Bradford, who is providing a $100,000 donation to the USA Projects matching fund Artists2Artists to get the Web site going.”

(Via ARTINFO: News.)