FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ruby Lerner, (212) 598-9900, ext. 238

CREATIVE CAPITAL ANNOUNCES 2008 ARTISTS
More than $2.5 million in grants and services is committed to artist projects
Go to the 2008 Grantee Pages

NEW YORK, NY (January 9, 2008) – Creative Capital, the national organization that supports individual artists, announces the recipients of its 2008 grants. Fifty-two artists representing forty-one projects in film/video and the visual arts received initial awards of $10,000. As the projects develop, the organization offers additional funds; projects may receive as much as $50,000 each through the tenure of the multi-year grant.

Creative Capital artists also participate in the organization’s distinctive Artist Services Program valued at $25,000 per artist. This program offers artists skills-building assistance in areas such as fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning with the goal of advancing both their projects and their careers. So far Creative Capital has devoted more than $6 million to the Artists Services Program and has served 349 artists in its nine-year history.

The panelists who chose the twenty-one film/video projects were Andrea Grover (Aurora Picture Show, Houston), Effie Brown (Duly Noted Films, Los Angeles), Sean Elwood (Creative Capital, New York), Vicki Funari (Creative Capital artist, San Francisco), David Kwok (Tribeca Film Festival, New York), Scott Macauley (independent producer and journalist, New York) and Sheryl Mousley (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis). The seven panelists who selected the twenty visual arts projects were Romi Crawford (Studio Museum in Harlem, New York), Valerie Cassell Oliver (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston), Sean Elwood (Creative Capital, New York), Douglas Fogle (Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh), Maria Elena González (Creative Capital artist, Basel and New York), Rita Gonzalez (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Abby Messitte (Clementine Gallery, New York).

Selected from among 2,535 applications, the funded projects come from across the country. Creative Capital artists now represent twenty-eight states in total. About the new class of grantees, Creative Capital President Ruby Lerner said, “I am struck by these artists’ depth of engagement in issues critical to citizens of the world today. They fulfill art’s duty to inspire reflection, understanding and thought beyond the limits of the ordinary.”

Foundation Update
With these awards, Creative Capital’s roster of artist projects grows to 283. In 2006 the foundation issued grants in emerging fields, innovative literature and the performing arts. Many of those grantees attended Creative Capital’s Artist Retreat in August 2006, the kickoff event of the Artist Services Program. Through the grant program and its Professional Development Program (a series of public workshops for artists held nationwide), Creative Capital has served more than 1,700 artists.

About Creative Capital
Nine years ago, Creative Capital embarked on a mission to reinvent the existing model of arts philanthropy, to construct a new paradigm, and to fulfill the specific needs of the country's most innovative artists. Today, it is the premier national artist support organization, committed to the principle that time and advisory services are as crucial to artistic success as funding. Over the lives of its funded projects, Creative Capital provides artists with a flexible program of multi-faceted, sequential support and partners with them to determine how those targeted funds and services can best work in concert to progress towards the grantees’ own goals. Since its founding in 1999, the organization has committed more than $12 million in financial support and services to 283 projects representing 349 artists. A complete list of grantees, profiles of funded projects, and up-to-date grant cycle information can be found online at the foundation’s website at www.creative-capital.org.

2009 Grants
In 2009 Creative Capital will support projects in emerging fields, innovative literature and the performing arts. Applications are accepted online at www.creative-capital.org from February 4 to March 4, 2008.

CREATIVE CAPITAL 2008 ARTISTS

Film/Video 2008

Kenseth Armstead (Brooklyn, NY) Installation
Spook™Experiment

Anita Chang (San Francisco, CA) Documentary
Tongues of Heavene space

Erin Cosgrove (Altadena, CA) Narrative
The Living Book

Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman (Brooklyn, NY) Documentary
If A Tree Falls

Rodney Evans (Brooklyn, NY) Narrative
Day Dream

Lynn Hershman Leeson (San Francisco, CA) Documentary
(H)Errata: Women, Art and Revolution

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (Brooklyn, NY) Documentary
Trouble The Water

Brad Lichtenstein and Vernon Reid (Milwaukee, WI) Documentary
What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Quest for the Commons

Billy Luther (Los Angeles, CA) Documentary
Grab

Tara Mateik (Brooklyn, NY) Installation
Compulsory Routine

Cat Mazza (Troy, NY) Animation
Knit for Defense glance

Leighton Pierce (Iowa City, IA) Installation
Leaving The Station

Laura Poitras (New York, NY) Documentary
Release

Anayansi Prado (Los Angeles, CA) Documentary
American Migration

Jay Rosenblatt (San Francisco, CA) Documentary
Thoughts of Suicide

David Russo (Seattle, WA) Interdisciplinary
Fish Out Of Water

Luke Savisky (Austin, TX) Experimental
M/x

Cauleen Smith (Boston, MA) Narrative
Rebecca

Banker White and Zach Niles (San Francisco, CA) Documentary
We Own TV

Julie Wyman (Berkeley, CA) Documentary
Strong!

 

Visual Arts 2008

Sanford Biggers (Richmond, VA) Interdisciplinary
The Cartographer’s Conundrum

Susan Brandt and Kristine Woods (Baltimore, MD) Contemporary Crafts
Rag And Bone

Kianga Ford (Boston, MA) Interdisciplinary
Walking Home

Joseph Grigely (Chicago, IL) ` Public Art
The Whispering Buoy

Wayne Hodge (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary
Charleston

Jennie C. Jones (Brooklyn, NY) Installation
Sounding Line

Kalup Linzy (Brooklyn, NY) Moving Image
Keys To Our Heart

Naeem Mohaiemen (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Interdisciplinary
The Young Man Was No Longer Terrorist

Matthew Moore (Goodyear, AZ) Public Art
Lifecycles: Reinterpreting The American Produce Market

Otabenga Jones & Associates (Houston, TX) Public Art
Robert A. Pruitt, D. Jabari Anderson, Kenya Evans
Uhuru Squad

Angela Reginato (Oakland, CA) Moving Image
Se La Ciudad (Be The City)

Kaneem Smith (Houston, TX) Installation
Forsaken Eulogies: Indifference

Eve Sussman (Brooklyn, NY) Moving Image
White on White

SuttonBeresCuller (Seattle, WA) Installation
Sun Hill Mini-Mart City Park

Mark Tribe (New York, NY) Moving Image
The Port Huron Project

Trimpin (Seattle, WA) Interdisciplinary
The Gurs Zyklus

Lauren Woods (San Francisco, CA) Public Art
Fountains

Mario Ybarra, Jr. (Wilmington, CA) Interdisciplinary
Curry Corndog Stand

Bruce Yonemoto and Juli Carson (Los Angeles, CA) Interdisciplinary
Perito Moreno: A ‘Natural’ Topology of Cultural Diaspora

Emna Zghal and Michael Rakowitz (Grinnell, IA) Public Art
Dark Turquoise

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