Jeffrey Gibson (2005 Awardee) is the first Indigenous artist to represent the US at the Venice Biennale. Pictured: exterior view of the space in which to place me, Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the United States Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale. Forecourt sculpture: the space in which to place me, 2024. Photo by Timothy Schenck.

Director Chris Eyre’s (2024 Awardee) Creative Capital project The Land Acknowledgement Streaming Experience (L.A.S.E.) peers through the quintessential American lens, the window of a moving car, highlighting the old and the new landscapes through an Indigenous POV. Photo by Michael Moriatis/AMC.

Sarah Paulson and Dakota Fanning in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s (2016 Awardee) Tony award-winning Broadway play Appropriate. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Terri Lyne Carrington’s (2023 Awardee) Creative Capital project Jazz Without Patriarchy is a multimedia  installation, curriculum, and programming series aiming to reimagine jazz through the lens of gender equity. Photo © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk.

Installation view of Germane Barnes’s (2022 Awardee) Creative Capital project Columnar Disorder at Art Institute of Chicago, 2024. Photo by Nathan Keay.

The world premiere of Sidra Bell Dance New York and Immanuel Wilkins Quartet’s (2023 Awardees) Creative Capital project COMMUNION, Gibney, May 2024. Umi Akiyoshi Photography.

Aliza Nisenbaum’s (2024 Awardee) The Ones Who Make it Run is a permanent installation in Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport, NYC. Photo by Dan Bradic.

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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 all over the country. Creative Capital awarded innovative projects focused on painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, video, installation, dance, theater, jazz, opera, multimedia performance, narrative film, experimental film, documentary film, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. 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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