{"id":88,"date":"2016-03-15T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/venturestudios\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2016-04-05T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:50:07","slug":"about-venture-studio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/venturestudio\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Venture Studio, with support from the Chicago Innovation Exchange and Kickstarter, examines contemporary art and design entrepreneurship.<\/h2>\n

The first of its kind at SAIC, the year-long course will provide instruction and resources for student project teams to research and develop artworks, objects, environments, systems and services for Kickstarter funding campaigns.
\nThe course is co-taught by Pablo Garcia<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Practices, and Sharon Burdett<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in AIADO. Both Garcia and Burdett are veterans of successful Kickstarter campaigns and bring that expertise to this innovative course. Garcia\u2019s NeoLucida<\/a>\u00a0is a modern reinterpretation of the camera lucida, a 19th century optical drawing aid. The fundraising campaign was a runaway success, raising over $400,000 to produce 15,000 devices. Burdett, co-founder of Strand Design in Chicago, created the Fourneau Oven<\/a>, a cast iron bread maker designed to create perfect bread in your home oven. Crowdfunding raised over $165,000 and had backers in over 20 countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Venture Studio takes advantage of SAIC\u2019s diverse, multidisciplinary structure: students from all over the school will participate, regardless of media or practice. The course takes as a foundational premise that all creative practices benefit from self-directed entrepreneurship. Painters, performers, designers, writers all must learn how to address an audience to grow. Kickstarter campaigns require clear statements of purpose, believable goals, and a \u201cpitch\u201d to get people on board. The Venture Studio gives students their first taste of self-reliance by building actual campaigns for a mass audience.<\/p>\n

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