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This week's Utah Crowd-Funding project is a case of "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
In April in this space, The Cricket wrote about Hansi, a Salt Lake City poet who planned to give artwork to random strangers.
Hansi teamed up with a local street-art painter, whose handle is Murder, to create and distribute between 140 and 400 pieces of art — with Hansi writing a poem to accompany each painting.
The pair took to Kickstarter to raise $4,000 for their project. But the gods of crowd-funding were not kind, and the artists didn't reach their goal.
So Hansi is trying again. This time, the goal is more modest: To raise $1,000 on Kickstarter, which will pay for 100 paintings.
And, only two days into their launch, the goal has almost been reached. So far, the campaign has raised $970 in pledges.
The deadline is a long one: July 31. And Hansi has set in several layers of stretch goals, each one meaning more paintings being distributed to strangers.
Benefits for backers range from a signed copy of an original Hansi poem (for $10) to having Murder create a mural for one of your walls (for $5,000).
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