James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
“Bach and Bob Dylan- in a piano.”
Juilliard pianist Evan Shinners is an emerging icon in both classical and popular music. He made his orchestral debut with the Utah symphony at age 12, and in the past two seasons appeared at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Avery Fisher Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Verizon Hall at the Kimell Center in Philadelphia, with tours of Ireland, Germany, parts of Asia and Canada.
As a classical pianist he was recently hailed by David Dubal as “the greatest Bach interpreter since Glenn Gould” and next season plans to record and perform all seven Bach toccatas. As a performer of his original music, he and his band, the SUITS! have appeared throughout the United States, Sweden, Canada, England and completed a United States tour this summer, with guest appearances on Colorado Public Radio.
This winter at MoMA in Manhattan, Shinners was an essential part of the ongoing exhibition "Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano" by Allora & Calzadilla. Shinners was the front page of the New York Times Arts, Dec.10.2010, as well as interviewed on CBS' 'Eye on New York.'
He graduated with Scholastic Distinction from The Juilliard School in 2008, achieving a Master’s Degree in spring 2010. He studied piano with Jerome Lowenthal and poetry with Ron Price. He is the founder of a New York based artistic movement entitled “The New Cull” which showcases young painters, poets, writers, actors, dancers and musicians in private and public concerts performing a variety of mediums: anything from punk rock to Shakespearian sonnets. Shinners and the movement gained the attention of the New York Times, who called Shinners, “Wholly convincing”. He is a published poet.
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