NYC-based website Kickstarter.com exists as equal parts dream catcher and micro-financier, allowing people from all over the globe to kick in a few bucks to help an art, film or creative project come to life. And in Detroit, where at any given time three to 12 projects turn to Kickstarter for grant money, the website's founders say these projects are creating worldwide buzz.
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"There's
a groundswell of people all over, saying, 'Let's save Detroit,'" said
Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. "It's seen as a kind of wild
west for art."
Remember last winter's Ice House on the east side? It was one of the first Detroit projects Kickstarter helped fund, raising $11,000 for two artists to encase an abandoned home in ice, turning what some said was an eyesore into eye candy.
Read more here, or help fund some Detroit-based Kickstarter projects.
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