Chase Hall (2024 Awardee) pictured with his work The Future and The Past (God is Us), 2024. Photo via Sunnyday.

A barren landscape with sharp mountains and a large glacier behind an 11-spoked portable Macrophone; a woman in outdoor gear with a rifle is listening with headphones.

Brian House’s (2023 Awardee) Creative Capital project Macrophones aims hear sounds of the climate crisis unfolding across the globe by making atmospheric infrasound audible.

Sam Tam Ham’s (2022 Awardee) Creative Capital project Te Moana Meridian, 2024. Photo by Mario Galluci.

Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, Carmelita Tropicana and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Creative Capital project at Soho Rep, 2024. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.

GRAMMY award winner Meshell Ndegeocello (2019 Awardee) at SFJAZZ, October 2023. Photo by Jack Brown.

Ethan Lipton (2023 Awardee) with his orchestra (Vito Dieterle, Ian Riggs, and Eben Levy) performing his Creative Capital project We Are Your Robots, 2024. Photo by HanJie Chow.

Edgar Arceneaux (2005 Awardee), “Sunset,” 2015-2020. Photographic print. Photo via Vielmetter Los Angeles.

LEIMAY’s (2023 Awardees) Frantic Beauty, 2019.

25 Years of Championing Visionary Artists
25 Years of Championing Visionary Artists
2026 Open Call

In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital expands its support of individual artists with the 2026 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award and the launch of the new State of the Art Prize. The 2026 Open Call seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. Application open: March 3 to April 3, 2025. Learn more.

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Announcing the 2025 Creative Capital Awards

The 2025 Creative Capital Awards in Visual Arts, Technology, Performing Arts, Film/Moving Image, and Literature represent 49 projects by 55 artists from 29 cities and 18 American states. See the full list of Awardees here.

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2024 Creative Capital Impact Report

This year, Creative Capital provided funding to 167 artists in 29 states across 84 cities, from Altadena to Waynesboro. We also served thousands of artists worldwide with our new, free Creative Capital Curriculum and Artist Opportunities listings. Read the 2024 Impact Report.

Cover image: Rachel Rossin, THE MAW OF, 2022. Meta Quest 2, Hand Tracking, 5-channel video, LED screens, sound. Installation view of the exhibition KW on location: Rachel Rossin: THE MAW OF, by KW Institute for Contemporary Art at Tieranatomischen Theater, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Frank Sperling.

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2024 Artist Project Videos

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