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Artfunder Contributors

Artfunder is a crack team of content creators sharing a passion for arts & culture, and for promoting and building new ways for independent artists to amplify their message and monetize their work.

 

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Salvatore (Salvo) Delle Palme
Creator
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Salvo’s path took him from struggling songwriter to pro poker player in the aughts, and from arts webzine creator to early staffer of crypto giant Kraken in the 2010s. His motivation is to make it more clear to the world how valuable the work of independent artists truly is.

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Jeff Hayward
Editor
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A professional writer for over 15 years, Jeff has always been passionate about the arts scene. When he's not writing about art, he's reading about it or out taking photos of something cool.

Jennifer Berube
Content Strategist
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Jen has worked as a content creator and strategist in the arts and culture realm for over 10 years. She’s written for leading publications and is the former editor of PHLEARN Magazine. She helps us map out creative avenues to craft stories that inspire and unite today’s artists.

Rebecca Ann Hughes
Staff Writer
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Rebecca Ann Hughes is a freelance journalist living in Italy. Her background is in history of art and heritage. Through her writing for Artfunder, she hopes to draw attention to underfunded and under the radar arts projects.

Darryl Gold
Associate
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Darryl Gold is a multimedia artist and filmmaker from Hamilton, Canada. When he’s not working on films and animation, Darryl is a practitioner of creative 3D printing and a virtual art gallery creator​.

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Katherine Beirne
Staff Writer
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KT resides outside of Chicago. She loves music, film, traveling, and quoting along to movies.

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Carl Jackson
Staff Writer
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Carl is a British writer residing in Budapest. He specializes in pop culture, being a huge comic and toy collector. He runs his own content writing firm named The Asteroid M and has a retro nostalgia website, Updownleftrightastart. He loves his wife, daughter, two cats, and Neo Geo arcade machine.


PAST CONTRIBUTORS

Melanie Jayne Ashford
Writer
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Mel particularly enjoys supporting disabled and LGBTQIA+ artists, as she is a demisexual lesbian with moderate hearing loss. She enjoys cross-stitch, diamond painting, and sequin art, and lives in Wales with a tortoise shell cat and a French Bulldog puppy.

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Ekaterina Golovina
Writer
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Katya's written for local and intl outlets over 10 years of sharing her life between Eurasia and South America.

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Diamond Yao
Writer
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Diamond is a writer/journalist who lives in Montreal. She enjoys art, traveling and reading thought provoking books.

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Frank Murdocco
Writer
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Frank Murdocco is a New York-based writer and performer. His work has been seen across the New York Stage. He has a keen interest in non-profit pieces of theater that are created in direct relation with social causes.

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Douglas Langat
Writer
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For most of the last decade, Douglas has been using his writing to help others and himself to discover their most authentic selves. With a sense of stewardship and humility, he is now making it his mission to tell the stories of the African Arts scene.

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Connie Digital
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Digital artist and Web3 Content Creator

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