As an artist, Ahamefule J. Oluo has honed his practice combining standup comedy with musical performance. His Creative Capital Project, Susan, premieres in Seattle, and in New York. We spoke to Oluo about the new work. Read more.

Creative Capital has invited 12 arts writers to explore key moments in the history of the Creative Capital Award in celebration of our 20th anniversary in collaboration with the Los Angeles Review of Books. In this month’s essay, Eunsong Kim writes about 2001 awardees, Dread Scott and Gaye Chan—artists who sought to redefine how we see incarcerated individuals and Hawai’i indigenous peoples.
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Did you know Europe provides about $30 million in commission fees every year to artists? We speak to Kurt Perschke about how artists can take advantage of art festivals in Europe ahead of our online workshop, Unlocking Europe: Festival Commissions Revealed, happening November 7, 2019. Read more.

We are thrilled to share artist presentation videos from the 2019 Creative Capital Artist Retreat! These presentations cover a broad range of genres and subjects representing a diversity of work by some of the most groundbreaking artists in the country. Watch now.

The Creative Capital Project, The Other Apartment, allows visitors in Pittsburgh to get a sense of what it might feel like to visit Iran, and vice versa for people in Tehran. Jon Rubin and Sohrab Kashani’s duplicate space in Pittsburgh and in Tehran will house concurrent art ventures for the two audiences to come together across distances. Read our interview with Rubin and Kashani.

Vicky Funari talks about her Creative Capital Project, Maquilápolis, a documentary that uses the medium as a way to galvanize support for a range of issues, from environmental justice to women’s rights. Read more.

Ghana ThinkTank have created an art space at an intersection in Detroit’s North End neighborhood inspired by Islamic architecture, which is designed to foster community. Their Creative Capital Project premieres September 22. Read more.