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Discover Creative Capital Awardees and State of the Art Prize artists by name, discipline, award year, or location.
57 Artists
57 ArtistsAaron Whitby
Black Mountain Women
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Alan Ruiz
Spatial Alchemy
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2019
Architecture & Design, Installation, Visual Arts, 2019
Alejandro Durán
Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape
Visual Arts, Installation
2019
Installation, Photography, Visual Arts, 2019
Alice Sheppard
Descent
Performing Arts, Dance
2019
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2019
Alison O'Daniel
The Tuba Thieves
The Tuba Thieves fictionalizes real events and lived experiences through a cinematic language that mirrors the experience of being hard of hearing: overlapping narratives, obscured visual framing, and captions that present a third narrative equal to image and sound.
Visual Arts, Moving Image
2019
Moving Image, Sculpture, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2019
Allison Janae Hamilton
Celestine
In Celestine, Hamilton retrains her lens from the earth to the sky, imagining the rich landscapes that permeate her visual language in the vertical, extending not from sea to sea, but from soil to stars.
Visual Arts, Installation
2019
Installation, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2019
Bahar Behbahani
Ispahan Flowers Only Once
Moving Image, Social Practice
2019
Moving Image, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Video Art, 2019
Brandon Ballengée
Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf
Multimedia, Social Practice
2019
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
CAConrad
Resurrect Extinct Vibration
Resurrect Extinct Vibration is a (Soma)tic poetry ritual in nine maneuvers, including lying on the ground across the US to saturate their body with recordings of recently extinct animals and strategically placing index cards in public with email correspondences for each animal, to result in a total of 108 poems.
Literary Arts, Poetry
2019
Literary Arts, Poetry, 2019
caleb (kaleb) Duarte
Embassy of the Refugee
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2019
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Charlotte Brathwaite
Forgotten Paradise: Gazette’s Sun
Performing Arts, Moving Image
2019
Moving Image, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2019
Cristal Chanelle Truscott
Plantation Remix
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Daresha Kyi
Mama Bears
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Dee Hibbert-Jones
Run With It
Animation, Documentary Film
2019
Animation, Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Ekene Ijeoma
White Interference
White Interference is an installation and performance in which dancers navigate the blurred boundaries of racialized landscapes through distorted radio frequency-driven soundscapes.
Installation, Multimedia
2019
Installation, Multimedia, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Elissa Blount Moorhead
As of a Now
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2019
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Multimedia, 2019
Elissa Washuta
White Magic
White Magic is a personal essay collection about heartbreak, sexual violation, and the artist’s process of becoming a powerful witch.
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction
2019
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, 2019
Garrett Bradley
Love
Love is a practical, object-based product provided free of charge to those suffering the negative effects of missing loved ones as a result of incarceration.
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art
2019
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Ja'Tovia Gary
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2019
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2019
Jen Liu
Pink Slime Caesar Shift
Pink Slime Caesar Shift is a project that proposes to alter the genetic material of cow cells in order to carry secret messages of labor activism for female factory workers in South China.
Moving Image, Multimedia
2019
Moving Image, Multimedia, Video Art, 2019
Johanna Fateman
Amerikan Woman
Amerikan Woman is a book-length work of experimental nonfiction that merges the artist's biographical research about radical feminist writer and antipornography activist Andrea Dworkin with her own memoir.
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2019
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, 2019
Joseph Kunkel
Place of Gathering and Reconciliation at the Fort Robinson Breakout Site
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2019
Architecture & Design, Visual Arts, 2019
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
How to build a wall and other ruins
Visual Arts, Moving Image
2019
Moving Image, Photography, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2019
Kathryn Ramey
El Signo Vacío / The Empty Sign
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2019
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2019
Kia LaBeija
Wom(y)n with a Y
Visual Arts, Experimental Film
2019
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Photography, Visual Arts, 2019
Larissa FastHorse
Native Nation
Native Nation combines long term community service with the Cornerstone methodology of creating theater through a Native lens to make work that is truly Indigenous and artistically excellent.
Performing Arts, Social Practice
2019
Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Theater, 2019
Laura Doggett
Another Kind of Girl Collective
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Surrogate
Performing Arts, Data Visualization
2019
Data Visualization, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Technology, 2019
Leslie Tai
How to Have an American Baby
There is a city in Southern California that is teeming with pregnant women from China. Told through multiple perspectives, this film travels deep into the booming shadow economy catering to...
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Linda Parris-Bailey
Yankee Bajan
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Maaza Mengiste
A Brief Portrait of Small Deaths
A Brief Portrait of Small Deaths, the author’s third novel, is a story set in Berlin during the interwar years, focusing on the life of a German painter and his model, an Afro-German woman, as Nazism rises in the country.
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2019
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2019
MAOF
Glosario de técnicas constructivas para el caribe (GTCC)
Visual Arts, Craft
2019
Craft, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2019
Martha Redbone
Black Mountain Women
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby
Black Mountain Women
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin pays homage to James Baldwin by creating a shared space for reflection, conversation, and social change.
Performing Arts, Multimedia
2019
Multimedia, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2019
Michael Premo
Homegrown
HOMEGROWN is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other.
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Michèle Stephenson
Changing Same: An American Pilgrimage
Moving Image, Multimedia
2019
Moving Image, Multimedia, Narrative Film, 2019
Michelle Handelman
DELIRIUM
Installation, Moving Image
2019
Installation, Moving Image, Video Art, 2019
Nathaniel Corum
Place of Gathering and Reconciliation at the Fort Robinson Breakout Site
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2019
Architecture & Design, Visual Arts, 2019
niv Acosta
BLACK POWER NAPS
Multimedia, Social Practice
2019
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Nomi Talisman
Run With It
Animation, Documentary Film
2019
Animation, Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Paul S. Flores
We Have Iré
Performing Arts, Jazz
2019
Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
Pocha Peña
Dreamocracy in America
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2019
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Polly Apfelbaum
For the Love of Una Hale (Cards of Identity)
Visual Arts, Craft
2019
Craft, Installation, Visual Arts, 2019
Raja Feather Kelly
WEDNESDAY
Performing Arts, Dance
2019
Dance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
Ramona S. Diaz
And So It Begins
...Begins further explores the relationship between fear and the institutions empowered to protect us. The story itself is a meditation on power: who amasses it and who relinquishes it, what...
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Rosalba Rolón
We Have Iré
Performing Arts, Jazz
2019
Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
S. Leo Chiang
Parachute Kids
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2019
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2019
Sage Ni'Ja Whitson
The Unarrival Experiments
Performing Arts, Dance
2019
Dance, Performing Arts, 2019
Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes
The Healing Project
The Healing Project uses music, film, and people’s stories in their own voices to unveil the true damages of American carceral institutions.
Performing Arts, Installation
2019
Installation, Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019