This spring was all about Creative Capital's anniversary! We celebrated all of our artists, beginning with The Museum of Modern Art's six-week exhibition of Creative Capital films and videos spanning our ten-year history. Throughout the spring, we hosted readings by Innovative Literature grantees at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York; more than 25 of our artists were featured in Resurrectine, an exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts; and IFC Center presented the premieres of two grantee films on one night. We completed our celebrations with our first Gala and Auction, hosted by our wonderful artists.

We have a great deal of exciting organizational news to report, from the April debut of Harvard Business School's case study on Creative Capital to expansions of the Professional Development Program to diverse and exciting press for our artists and organization. After this summer, we'll jump into a busy fall, and before we know it, applications will open in February 2011 for our next grant round. Until then, I look forward to welcoming you to grantee project premieres and other special events around the country!

With best wishes for a wonderful summer,
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On April 16, more than 900 Harvard Business School first-year students were introduced to Creative Capital through a new case study, Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts. The case, which touches on many of Creative Capital's signature activities—including its unique application process, Professional Development Program and Artist Retreat—was prepared by Professor Felda Hardymon and Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon. Ruby Lerner and board members Lyda Kuth and Ed Colloton traveled to Cambridge, MA, to help teach the case and were privy to a lively discussion among the MBA students about the future of Creative Capital, the nature of philanthropy and the importance of art in America.

In each Entrepreneurial Management course that day, Ruby took questions from students, shared anecdotes about the early days and obstacles the organization has overcome, and took suggestions for addressing current issues. "I had no idea how engaged the students would be," said Ruby. "It was a true privilege to participate as a case subject and in class." Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts is now available for purchase at the Harvard Business School Press.

MIGUEL GUTIERREZ TAKES LAST MEADOW AROUND THE WORLD
2009 Performing Arts grantee Miguel Gutierrez's Creative Capital project, Last Meadow, has drawn the attention of presenters around the world. The three-part, three-dancer piece exploits the iconic and inherently misunderstood image of James Dean as a symbol of our unrealistic and outsized expectations for each other and our nation. Last Meadow premiered at 2009 TBA Festival in Portland, OR, and had its New York premiere at Dance Theatre Workshop. The piece then went on to the Abrons Arts Center, also in New York, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, V,T the Antipodes Festival at Le Quartz in Brest, France, and at Latitudes Contemporaines in Lille, France. Gutierrez and the Powerful People will perform Last Meadow at the Centre Pompidou in Paris this fall. Additionally, Gutierrez was selected as a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow and received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant.

BRINGING WORKSHOPS TO MORE ARTISTS NATIONWIDE
Creative Capital is pleased to announce a new Workshop Subsidy program made possible by the generous support of The Kresge Foundation. Workshop Subsidy Grants are designed to help bring PDP's workshops to diverse artists and communities across the country. PDP staff and consultants are currently evaluating applications from organizations nationwide for subsidies ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 for Core Strategic Planning, Internet for Artists, Verbal Communications and Spanish language workshops for artists in their communities in 2011 and 2012.