We are proud to announce that, in recognition of our 20th anniversary, Creative Capital will move to an annual cycle of awards and retreats, allowing us to provide more support for artists, and on a more responsive schedule. Read more.

Alex Rivera’s 2008 Creative Capital Project, Sleep Dealer, is still relevant today—the speculative futurist film made surprisingly accurate predictions about remote warfare, protected borders, and automation. Ahead of a screening at Queens Museum, Rivera told us about the work. Read the article.

Applying for a grant can be extremely competitive, so, it’s important to take the process as seriously as your creative practice. Tracie Holder, who leads Creative Capital’s grant writing workshops, offers some tips to help make fundraising easier.

Barbara Hammer, who forever changed avant-garde filmmaking by exploring lesbian identity and sexuality through experimental cinematic techniques, passed away in March 2019 due to cancer. We spoke to several artists who interacted with Hammer through Creative Capital and elsewhere in the art world—all of them recalled about how much joy she exuded, even to her last days. Read the article.

In an ongoing effort to support artists, Creative Capital presents On Our Radar 2019, featuring noteworthy projects in all disciplines that advanced to the final round in the competitive selection process for the Creative Capital Award. Explore On Our Radar.

Gregory Sale and his team translate criminal justice reform efforts into art to shift thinking about rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration. His Creative Capital Project premieres at Alcatraz in San Francisco, as part of a year long exhibition there featuring regular public programs. Read our interview with Sale.

In their Creative Capital Project JACK &, Cornell Alston and Kaneza Schaal consider reentry to society after prison, focusing not on the time one serves, but the measure of ones dreaming that is given to the state. The artists bring their theatrical show and companion installation to New York Live Arts, April 17-27. Read our interview with the artists.

A new documentary by Mariam Ghani tells the story of the Afghan Communist era through the eyes of five directors of the time. What We Left Unfinished premieres at San Francisco International Film Festival April 11, 14, and 16. Read our interview with Ghani.