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.

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.

When their Creative Capital Project is activated, 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.

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. The essays look at many of the projects we have supported that proved groundbreaking and prescient, reflecting and responding to a world in a constant state of flux. We are pleased to partner with Los Angeles Review of Books who will publish these essays once a month. Read more.

Sharon Louden leads Creative Capital’s online workshop, Building Community for a Sustainable Creative Life, a four part series starting October 4. We spoke to some of the artists who took a previous workshop from Sharon about what they learned. 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.

Joseph Keckler told us about his Creative Capital Project, Let Me Die, an avant-garde collage of death scenes from the history of opera as an evening-length performance, premiering in Philadelphia. Read more.