Installation view of Creative Capital grantee Simone Leigh's US Pavillion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo by Timothy Schenck.

Installation view of Creative Capital grantee Simone Leigh’s US Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo by Timothy Schenck.

Performance still of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf," which includes Creative Capital Awardee Okwui Okpokwasili and features original music by Awardees Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby.

“for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf,” includes Creative Capital grantee Okwui Okpokwasili and original music by grantees Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby.

Work by Creative Capital grantee Nick Cave, on view in Nick Cave: Forothermore at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, May 14 – October 2, 2022.

Installation still of Creative Capital Awardee Guadalupe Maravilla's Luz y fuerza at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. On view through Fall 2022.

Installation still of Creative Capital grantee Guadalupe Maravilla’s Luz y fuerza at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. On view through Fall 2022.

Film still from Wes Hurley’s Creative Capital Project, Potato Dreams of America.

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Letter from the President: Celebrating Earth Day and the Ecosystem of the Arts

Dear Artists, Friends, and Supporters, Spring has sprung! This Earth Day, I am excited to highlight some of the projects we are funding related to climate justice and the environment, and to share news on the work we are doing to support our grantees and the arts ecosystem at-large.
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The 2022 Creative Capital Awards

Announcing the Creative Capital Awards for 2022, totaling $2.5 million in artist support. The grants will fund the creation of 50 new artists’ projects by 59 individual artists working in the performing arts, visual arts, film, technology, literature, and socially engaged and multidisciplinary practices. Each project will receive up to $50,000 in direct funding, supplemented by career development and networking services to foster thriving artistic careers. Learn more.

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