{"id":170,"date":"2012-11-05T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-11-05T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:57:04","slug":"watercolors-at-the-parrish-crowdfunding-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/watercolors-at-the-parrish-crowdfunding-success\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Watercolors&#8221; at the Parrish: Crowdfunding Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the generosity of\u00a0some awesome and fantastic funders, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/watercolorsparrish\" target=\"_blank\">fundraising campaign<\/a> to support\u00a0<strong>The Chelsea Quintet<\/strong>&#8216;s performance of\u00a0<em>Watercolors<\/em>\u00a0this Saturday at the\u00a0<strong>Parrish Art Museum<\/strong>\u00a0was a great success:\u00a0contributions have brought the campaign to <strong>126% <\/strong>of my fundraising goal!\u00a0Combined with the funding provided by the Museum, this makes it possible to compensate the five musicians and cover transportation and production expenses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Chelsea-Quintet-group-photo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-172 \" title=\"The Chelsea Quintet\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Chelsea-Quintet-group-photo-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"The Chelsea Quintet\" width=\"240\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Chelsea-Quintet-group-photo-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Chelsea-Quintet-group-photo-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Chelsea-Quintet-group-photo.jpeg 1527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chelsea Quintet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The generous supporters of this campaign, whose contributions ranged from $15 to $200, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anonymous (2)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Gagne<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrea Grover<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Morgan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dorothy Reilly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Resig<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nancy Weekly\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to contribute yet,\u00a0you can still make a difference: all of the funds raised in excess of my goal for the Parrish Art Museum performance will help cover the expenses of my next (TBA) project bringing Music Inspired by Art into a gallery or museum venue. This is an ongoing project that needs continual support to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>If you contribute<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by <strong>Saturday, November 10, 11:59PM Pacific Time<\/strong>\u00a0you can still receive some neat perks, which include a DVD with over an\u00a0<strong>hour<\/strong>\u00a0of video from performances of my &#8220;Music Inspired by Art;&#8221; a personalized CD of my music; a special-invitation high tea at my apartment; and even a commission of a short piece of music.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/indiegogo.com\/watercolorsparrish\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/indiegogo.com\/watercolorsparrish\">Watch the Trailer, Find Out More, and Donate<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/indiegogo.com\/watercolorsparrish\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/indiegogo.com\/watercolorsparrish\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net\/_ssl\/proxy.php\/http\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/4cb5cb83e61e2ff4c679fc7f1\/images\/igg_logo_color_print_white_h2945cc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"14\" align=\"none\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net\/_ssl\/proxy.php\/http\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/4cb5cb83e61e2ff4c679fc7f1\/images\/igg_logo_color_print_white_h2945cc.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Watercolors<\/em>\u00a0at the Parrish\u00a0is already attracting some great feedback and press:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sagharboronline.com\/sagharborexpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/sagharboronline.com\/sagharborexpress\/\"><strong>The Sag Harbor Express<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0included an article on the event\u00a0in their Thursday, October 25 print edition announcing that I would be &#8220;Christening the Parrish&#8221; with the performance (<a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/pdf\/sag%20harbor%20express%20watercolors.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/pdf\/sag%20harbor%20express%20watercolors.pdf\">click here to read a scan of the article<\/a>).\u00a0Nancy Weekly, leading Charles E. Burchfield scholar and curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, comments on the Indiegogo campaign:\u00a0<em>&#8220;Nell Shaw Cohen deserves superlative praise for her compositions inspired by art, particularly her understanding of Charles E. Burchfield&#8217;s rapport with nature.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Stay tuned for more updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the generosity of\u00a0some awesome and fantastic funders, my fundraising campaign to support\u00a0The Chelsea Quintet&#8216;s performance of\u00a0Watercolors\u00a0this Saturday at the\u00a0Parrish Art Museum\u00a0was a great success:\u00a0contributions have brought the campaign to 126% of my fundraising goal!\u00a0Combined with the funding provided by the Museum, this makes it possible to compensate the five musicians and cover transportation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/watercolors-at-the-parrish-crowdfunding-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Watercolors&#8221; at the Parrish: Crowdfunding Success!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,28],"tags":[81,39,36,23,58,59],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-the-notes","category-performances","tag-art-and-music","tag-beyond-the-notes-2","tag-charles-burchfield","tag-concerts-and-events","tag-fundraising","tag-the-chelsea-quintet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}