[1]Tasha Zimich, a student graduating Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts Visual Art Program [2], decided to tackle on a long-time dream of illustrating and self-producing her own graphic arts books. Thanks to crowdsourced funding at IndieGoGo [3], her dream is becoming a reality. At the close of her campaign, Tasha has achieved and exceeded her $1600.00 funding goal.Tasha’s artwork expresses dark & macabre content through beautiful technical application. A leaning towards art that functions outside of Contemporary Art Gallery walls has rattled the cages of traditional sensibilities inside the Academic Communities where she studies and hones her craft. [4]
Her goal of raising $1600.00 to cover book production costs was ambitious for a young emerging artist without a well developed professional career. Through the support of friends, family, project newcomers, and generous art supply sponsorship from Letraset UK, Tasha’s 60-day Crowdsourced Funding campaign swelled with generous donations. She reached and exceeded her 1600$ goal 5 days before the end of her IndieGoGo funding campaign, and the donations kept trickling in. Her campaign concluded on January 12th, having raised a total of $1725.00 to apply to the production costs of her books.