Evita Tsokanta: Kickstarter as a tool for curatorial projects
Dear Call for Curators Members,
Join us for our next Members’ Program on Thursday, March 25 at 6.30pm Berlin time: an informal meeting with Evita Tsokanta of Kickstarter, who will discuss how to make the most out of Kickstarter’s fundraising tools and bring your curatorial and artistic projects to life!
Call for Curators Members’ Program:
Evita Tsokanta: Kickstarter as a tool for curatorial projects
Thursday, March 25
6.30pm Berlin time
Kickstarter Arts works with visual and performing artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions helping them to realize ambitious projects. By bringing a global community of creators and supporters of the arts together, it champions ideas that break new ground, elevate meaningful dialogue, and offer imaginative opportunities for public engagement. To date, over 30,000 artistic projects have raised more than $200 million on Kickstarter across the fields of art, dance, photography, and theater.
Recent successful Kickstarter Arts campaigns include People for the American Way’s ENOUGH of Trump Campaign (2020), Bronx Museum and Henry Chalfant’s First U.S. Museum Retrospective (2019), Creative Time and Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape (2019), Edgar Arceneaux’s Boney Manilli (2019), Raja Feather Kelly’s Tele-Gala-A-Thon (2019), Ebony G. Patterson’s Called Up for Kansas City Open Spaces (2018), For Freedoms’ 50 State Billboard Initiative (2018), Public Art Fund and Ai Weiwei’s Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (2017), Pope.L’s Flint Water at What Pipeline (2017), Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains (2016), and Postcommodity’s Repellent Fence (2015).
Evita Tsokanta works as a writer, educator and an independent exhibition-maker and is based in Athens. She received her BA in Art History and English from Rutgers University, U.S.A. and her MA on Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College London. She lectures on curatorial practices and contemporary Greek art at the Columbia University Summer Curatorial Program in Athens and at the Arcadia University, Athens. She has contributed to several exhibition catalogues (including Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, 2018) and journals (including South as a State of Mind and The Art Newspaper, Athens).
Previously, she has curated solo and group exhibitions such as Keep on Keeping on: a visual meta-collection at the American College of Greece Gallery, Reverb: New Art from Greece at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, U.S.A. and the 4th Athens Biennial, AGORA, among others. She has collaborated extensively with independent art spaces in Athens including 3 137, Enterprise Projects, State of Concept and Snehta. In 2019, she completed a writing residency in Leipzig supported by the Goethe Institute. She has been working for Kickstarter Arts since 2020.
