Happenings: December 2024
Discover a selection of exhibitions, performances, films, talks, news, and other Creative Capital community events happening this December across disciplines and across the nation.
Visual Arts
- Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Cells | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY | November 2–December 21, 2024
- Dyani White Hawk | Bodies of Water | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore | Through December 1, 2024
- Corey Arcangel | ALL I EAT IN A DAY | Kunst Halle St Gallen, Switzerland | Through December 1, 2024
- Lynn Hershman Leeson, Chico MacMurtrie, Carolina Caycedo | Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty | Through December 14, 2024 | Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA
- Chase Hall | Halfrican | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | November 8–December 14, 2024
- Sheryl Oring | I Wish That I Had Spoken Only of It All: 20 Years of Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say | DiMattio Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ | Through December 20, 2024
- JJJJJerome Ellis | Smoke & Mirrors | Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick | Through December 22, 2024
- Xavier Cortada | Climate Science Art | Cultural Programs Of The National Academy of Science, Washington, DC | Through December 31, 2024
- Ekene Ijeoma | Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination | Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA | Through January 4, 2025
- Brandon Ballengée, Mel Chin, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena | Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | Through January 5, 2025
- Sherrill Roland | Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | Through January 12, 2025
- Tanya Aguiñiga, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena, Dyani White Hawk | Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art | Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA | Through January 12, 2025
- Alan Ruiz | Creative Capital Premiere | Risk Management | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT | Through January 19, 2024
- Erica Lord | No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor | Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, NY | Through January 26, 2025
- Avram Finkelstein, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Narcissister, Guadalupe Maravilla, Samora Pinderhughes | The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition | Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | Through January 26, 2025
- Andrea Carlson, Mel Chin, Abigail DeVille, Meleko Mokgosi, Karyn Olivier | Prospect New Orleans Contemporary Art Triennial: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home | New Orleans, LA | Through February 2, 2025
- Cassils | Movements | Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | Through February 3, 2025
- Titus Kaphar | The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA | Through February 9, 2025
- Ralph Lemon, Mickalene Thomas, Trajal Harrell, Sarah Michelson, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peter Born, Will Rawls, Ronald K. Brown | Edges of Ailey | Whitney Museum, NYC | Through February 9, 2025
- Liz Cohen, Madeline Jiménez Santil, Karyn Olivier, Sarah Rosalena | Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 | El Museo del Barrio, NYC | October 10, 2024– February 9, 2025
- Carmen Amengual | Creative Capital project | A Non-Coincidental Mirror | Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY | December 7, 2024-February 9, 2025
- Jamal Cyrus, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Steffani Jemison, Simone Leigh, Lorraine O’Grady, Kamau Patton, Robert Pruitt | Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now | The Met Fifth Avenue, NYC | November 17, 2024– February 17, 2025
- Anna Tsouhlarakis | YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE: A Native Guide Project | East Window and Gallery, Boulder, CO | Through February 21, 2024
- Stephanie Dinkins, Kite, Sarah Rosalena | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | Through February 23, 2025
- Tanya Aguiñiga, Cassils, Raven Chacon, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Elisa Harkins, Guadalupe Maravilla, Mario Ybarra Jr. | Broken Boxes | Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque | Through March 2, 2025
- Ralph Lemon | Ceremonies Out of the Air | MoMA PS1, Queens, New York | November 14, 2024–March 24, 2025.
- A.K. Burns | What is Perverse is Liquid | The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA | Through May 4, 2025
- Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
- Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
- Jawwaad Taylor |Creative Capital Premiere | Myth & Logic | Shepard-Acres Homes Neighborhood Library, Houston, Texas | Through September 2025
Performance
- Ethan Lipton | We Are Your Robots | Creative Capital Premiere | Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New York, NY | November 7–30, 2024
- Carmelita Tropicana, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Creative Capital Premiere | Give Me Carmelita Tropicana | Soho Rep, New York, NY | Through December 1, 2024
- Kite | Kite: Wógligleya/Imákȟaheye (Geometry/Method): Workshop for Dream Scores | EMPAC, Troy, NY | December 6, 2024, 7PM ET
- Kite | Kite: Open Rehearsal | EMPAC, Troy, NY | December 5, 2024
- Joseph Keckler | The Golden Hour with Joseph Keckler | ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ | December 14, 2024 and February 3, 2025
- Basil Twist | Puppet Parlor 2024 | HERE Arts Center, NYC | December 17 & 18, 2024
Music
- Eisa Davis | Warriors | Concept album with Lin Manuel Miranda | Released October 18, 2024
- Julia Christensen | Space Song Foundation’s debut record | Tree Songs Art Center | Available through BandCamp | Released October 25, 2024
Film
- Penny Lane | Confessions of a Good Samaritan | Streaming on Netflix
- Jasmín Mara López | Silent Beauty | Creative Capital project | Streaming on Amazon Prime
- Elaine McMillion Sheldon | King Coal | Streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Prime
- Cyrus Moussavi, Camae Ayewa and Rasheeda Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) | Moor Mother: Jazz Codes | Mubi x Chanel Next Prize Collection | Streaming on Mubi
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