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Summer at Creative Capital has come and we’re busier than ever with artist projects and events around the clock and around the world.
I just got back from the Zero1 Festival in San Jose, where we co-sponsored the opening artist reception and I was able to raise a toast to all our grantees included in the biennial exhibition. Inside this issue of Highlights, read about where in the world our grantees will be making a splash next, where in time 2008 grantee Mark Tribe is returning for his Port Huron Project, and where the rest of the 2008 class of Creative Capital artists will come together as one for the first time—that’s right, with July comes our sixth Creative Capital Artist Retreat.
Finally, it’s with great excitement that we introduce a new donor to our community of supporters: The TOBY Fund, whose gift supports the work of our Emerging Fields artists.
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> CREATIVE GRANTEES
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LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: THE FUTURE IS HISTORY
“Creative Capital is a rare and venerable treasure,” says film/video artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, “The support is elastic yet deep. It stretches beyond the obvious and provides extensive help and hope in developing strategies for how to continue working as an artist, beyond simply the project that was funded.”
Hershman Leeson’s Creative Capital-supported film, (H)ERrata: Women, Art and Revolution, combines interviews, artwork, and rarely seen archival film and video footage to chronicle the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present. The parallel arc of the artist’s career is being chronicled through a year-long retrospective at six leading institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area: the de Young Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, The Hess Collection, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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CAMPAIGNING THROUGH TIME
Keep an ear out this summer for some stirring, and perhaps eerily familiar, speeches from not so far bygone eras of political upheaval. Port Huron Project is Mark Tribe’s Creative Capital-supported series of reenacted protest speeches from the 1960s and ‘70s, each performed at their original site. Half of the restagings completed, the three remaining take Tribe to Los Angeles (Exhibition Park, July 19), Oakland (DeFremery Park, August 2), and New York (United Nations, September 7), for speeches by César Chávez, Angela Davis, and Stokely Carmichael, respectively. A culminating exhibition at LACE in Los Angeles, screening of the reenactments on the MTV jumbo screen in Times Square, and exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory are all planned for September.
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ALL ABOARD! GRANTEES ABROAD
This summer, grantee projects traverse the globe, from Reynold Reynolds’ recent Best of Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, to Amelia Rudolph and Project Bandaloop’s performance at the European Capital of Culture Festival in Stavanger, Norway on August 23 and 24. Other global happenings include Anita Chang at the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival in Japan, July 4–6; Sanford Biggers at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, through July 5; Danny Hoch at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal, July 8–20; Marie Sester at the inaugural exhibition of Teleport Färgfabriken at Färgfabriken Norr in Östersund, Sweden, as well as at The Public in West Bromwich, England, on permanent view from June 28; Barbara Hammer at the World Island Film Festival in Seogweipo, Jeju Island, South Korea, August 23–27; Lisa Bielawa at the Summer Studies for Jazz & Improvised Music in Salzburg, Austria, July 16; James Luna at A Space Gallery in Toronto, June 27–August 2; William Pope.L at the Sammlung Falckenberg in Hamburg, Germany; and Erika Blumenfeld at Färgfabriken Norr in Östersund, Sweden, through August 31. |
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CHAIN OF OPPORTUNITY
Seven Creative Capital artists received 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships: Bill Daniel, Danny Hoch, Erika Blumenfeld, Mason Bates, Natalia Almada, Rodney Evans, and Ruben Ochoa. Individual Artist Fellowships from the City of Los Angeles went to: Erin Cosgrove, Suzanne Lacy, and David Rousseve. Jake Mahaffy was awarded the LEF Foundation's Moving Image Fund Grant for his Creative Capital-supported project, Free In Deed. Rounding out the summer, eight Creative Capital artists were selected for 2008 Tribeca Film Institute Media Fellowships: Billy Luther, Braden King, Michael Rees, Jacqueline Goss, Laura Poitras, lauren woods, Naomi Uman, and Paul Vanouse. |
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CREATIVE CAPITAL RECEIVES MAJOR GIFT FROM THE TOBY FUND
Creative Capital proudly welcomes the support of The TOBY Fund, established by collector, philanthropist and former curator Toby Devan Lewis. The organization has awarded Creative Capital a three-year, $540,000 grant to support Emerging Fields artists, grantees working in alternative gaming, online activism, new media installations, robotics, and more. Creative Capital’s next class of Emerging Fields artists will be announced in early 2009.
SCHOOL’S IN FOR SUMMER: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Recent workshops in San Francisco, Houston and New York, the third of which explored the topic of fundraising from individuals, will be followed by an additional New York verbal communication skills workshop in July and a two-day core workshop for all new Creative Capital artists at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as part of the Creative Capital Artist Retreat. Meanwhile, a summer launch is planned for a professional development online social networking community, which will allow the program’s alumni of more than 1,800 to share ideas and keep in touch across the country.
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CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
MAP FUND: GRANTEE NEWS AND 2008 GRANTS
The MAP Fund is proud to congratulate recent grantees Stew and Heidi Rodewald on their seven Tony Award nominations received for the MAP-supported ensemble rock musical, Passing Strange, which won the prize for Best Book. In other news, a new class of grantees will be announced in July.
ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM ANNOUNCES 2008 DEADLINES
In its third year of a three-year pilot program, the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program will accept applications for short-form writing, articles and blogs/new and alternative media projects from August 4–September 22, 2008. Letters of inquiry for book projects were received in May, and selected applicants will be invited to complete applications for funding at this time as well.
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