Performance still from Raja Feather Kelly’s Creative Capital Project, WEDNESDAY. It premieres at New York Live Arts December 1-10, 2021.

Creative Capital Awardee Jeffrey Gibson’s work, FEEL MY HEAT I’M A MOMENT BEHIND, will be exhibited at Stephen Friedman Gallery’s booth during Art Basel Miami Beach, November 30 – December 4, 2021. Photo by Max Yawney.

Installation view of Creative Capital Awardee Postcommodity’s exhibition, Time Holds All the Answers at Remai Modern in Canada. On view through January 23, 2022. Photo: Carey Shaw.

Creative Capital Awardee Guadalupe Maravilla’s First Drowning Retablo. Maravilla’s work will be on view at P.P.O.W’s booth during Art Basel Miami Beach, November 30 – December 4, 2021.

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Performing Arts
lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi
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Choreographer nora chipaumire explores the nature of art created in exile in lions will roar, swans will fly…. Explore more performing arts projects.

Visual Arts
4MX Greenhouse
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Jordan Weber’s 4MX Greenhouse is a sculptural programmatic artwork supporting holistic community health and land revitalization built on the site of Malcolm X’s Omaha home at birth. Explore more visual arts projects.

Literary Arts
Resurrect Extinct Vibration
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Resurrect Extinct Vibration involves CAConrad’s unique (Soma)tic poetry rituals in nine maneuvers to result in a total of 108 poems. Explore more literary arts projects.

Technology
Not the Only One
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Stephanie Dinkins’ Not the Only One is a multigenerational memoir of a Black American family told from the mind of an artificial intelligence of evolving intellect. Explore more technology art projects.

Moving Image
Bulletproof
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Bulletproof, a feature-length documentary by Todd Chandler, explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. Explore more moving image projects.

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