Dandelion Wine Collective Wins $25,000 In Seed Funding From MICA’s UP/Start Venture Competition



Via press release comes word that two recent graduates of Maryland Institute College of Art received $25,000 in seed money for their Dandelion Wine Collective by being one of two winners in the MICA's second annual UP/Start Venture Competition.

The founders of the collective are Paloma Hernando and Sunmi Shin, two illustration BFA graduates this year. They will also receive mentorship-type advice in getting their micro-publisher started.

Go here to see the prize winners talk about their hopes for the start-up capital and the opportunity to get the work they want to publish out into the world according to the values they've chosen to follow.

This sounds pretty great. A wide variety of projects were funded. The initiative comes from something called MICApreneurship, spearheaded by the Joseph Meyerhoff Center For Career Development. It would be wonderful if all the schools were comics are welcome build similar programs out of their resources and established graduates. I look forward to the comics that result.
 
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