This year the craft of fan making was included in the Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts as 'at serious risk of no longer being practised'. We need your help to raise £14,000 to launch a pioneering project which aims to put fan making back on the map.
Street Fans unites an international cast of street artists including RUN, C215, Nathan Bowen, Sr.X, Himbad & Otto Schade with master fan maker, Sylvain Le Guen to design and create one-of-a-kind fans which the Museum wants to exhibit later this year. Funds raised will support the manufacture by hand of 60 fans and enable the Museum to stage several project-linked events including a 'paint jam' and fan making workshop at Greenwich Market, a fan design competition for students at Lewisham Southwark College, and a similar event involving street artists and fan making tutors at the Heritage Gallery, Greenwich University.
If you have any questions or need help donating, contact arthappens@artfund.org
Street Fans is open
By Jacob Moss
It's official, our new Street Fans exhibition is open and we’re off to a flying start!... Read more
Partner events
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With just over a week to go until the opening of Street Fans, we want to share our project-linked events programme with you... Read moreIt's all coming together...
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Exhibition preparations are well underway. Here's a sneak peek behind the scenes... Read more
Rewards are being made
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One of our fan making tutors, Victoria Ajoku, is busy making reward fans... Read moreRewards Update
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We're busy creating your rewards and will be posting updates soon on when to expect these through your letterbox... Read more
We're 100% funded. Thank you!
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The Fan Museum's first ever crowdfunding campaign on Art Happens reaches its goal of raising £14,000... Read moreStill time to donate
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As we're so close to our target, we've extended the campaign until Monday 31 July to help us get over the line - so there's still time to support the project and pick up some amazing rewards... Read more
VIP experience at The Fan Museum plus limited edition print by Butch Attai
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Find out more about our exclusive VIP reward at The Fan Museum... Read moreOnly 3 days to go - here’s what you will help make happen if you donate
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By donating to Street Fans you will enable us to stage several project-linked events across the local area. Through these events we hope to inspire new audiences and reinvigorate the craft of fan-making... Read more
Meet the Artists - part 2
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Get to know four of the inspiring female artists involved in Street Fans... Read moreThank You. Only 16 Days to Go...
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With only 16 days to go, we need your help more than ever to reach our goal... Read more
Meet the Artists - part 1
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Get to know a few of the artists involved with Street Fans... Read more
Reward Highlights
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We have a brilliant selection of exclusive rewards for our donors, from postcards and tote bags to original hand-crafted fans... Read moreGet to know Master fan maker, Sylvain Le Guen
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We spoke with Sylvain Le Guen about the complexities and intricacies of fan making and his role in Street Fans... Read more
Five great reasons to donate
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Five great reasons to donate to Street Fans... Read moreWith thanks to...
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