Awardee Index
Since its inception, the Creative Capital Award has funded more than 1,000 visionary artists working in the visual arts, performing arts, dance, theater, jazz, film, literature, technology, and multidisciplinary forms across the United States.
1062 Artists
1062 ArtistsSable Elyse Smith
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Performing Arts, Multimedia
2016
Multimedia, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Technology, 2016
Sabrina Orah Mark
Happily: A Personal History — With Fairytales
Digital Media, Literary Arts
2021
Digital Media, Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, 2021
Sabrina Raaf
Translator II: Grower
Technology, Hardware
2002
Hardware, Sculpture, Technology, Visual Arts, 2002
Sage Ni'Ja Whitson
The Unarrival Experiments
Performing Arts, Dance
2019
Dance, Performing Arts, 2019
Sam Cullman
If a Tree Falls
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008
Sam Easterson
Animal, Vegetable, Video: Where the Buffalo Roam
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2001
Ecological Art, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2001
Sam Green
The Weather Underground
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2001
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2001
Sam Lavigne
Offset
Technology, Digital Media
2023
Digital Media, Internet Art, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Technology, Technology, 2023
Sam Tam Ham
Te Moana Meridian
Performing Arts, Opera
2022
Opera, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2022
Sam Van Aken
Tree of 40 Fruit
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2009
Ecological Art, Visual Arts, 2009
Samantha Nye
Possible Pleasures
Visual Arts, Installation
2025
Installation, Performance Art, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2025
Samar Haddad King
Radio Act
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2023
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2023
Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes
The Healing Project
Performing Arts, Installation
2019
Installation, Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Sandi DuBowski
Trembling Before G-d
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2000
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2000
Sandy Rodriguez
Book 13: After the Conquest – Codex Rodriguez Mondragon
Visual Arts, Installation
2021
Installation, Painting & Printmaking, Visual Arts, 2021
Sanford Biggers
The Cartographer’s Conundrum
Technology, Installation
2008
Installation, Multimedia, Technology, Visual Arts, 2008
Saqib Keval
EARTH SEED
Artistic Activism, Social Practice
2021
Artistic Activism, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Sarah Michelson
Dogs
Performing Arts, Architecture & Design
2006
Architecture & Design, Dance, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2006
Sarah Rosalena
Standard Candle
Technology, Craft
2022
Craft, Digital Media, Technology, Visual Arts, 2022
Sawad Brooks
Emotional Lighting Systems
Technology, Sculpture
2002
Sculpture, Software, Technology, Visual Arts, 2002
Scott Barry
Connections
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2012
Architecture & Design, Visual Arts, 2012
Scott Saunders
The Technical Writer
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2000
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2000
Sean Graney
The Aristophanesathon
Performing Arts, Theater
2016
Performing Arts, Theater, 2016
Sean LaRocca
Cry You One
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2013
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2013
Sean McElroy
The Art of Luv
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2016
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2016
Secos y Mojados
BORDER TRIP[tych] / TRIP[tico] de la frontera
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Sekou Sundiata
Udu
Performing Arts, Opera
2000
Opera, Performing Arts, 2000
Sergio De La Torre
Maquilápolis
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2001
Documentary Film, Moving Image, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2001
Şerife (Sherry) Wong
Blood Quantum
Visual Arts, Installation
2024
Installation, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2024
Shana M. griffin
DISPLACED
Multimedia, Social Practice
2021
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Shana Moulton
Whispering Pines ∞
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2013
Multimedia Performance, Opera, Performing Arts, 2013
Shani Peters
The Black School
Cultural Organizing, Social Practice
2021
Cultural Organizing, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Shannon Kennedy
Building Project
Technology, Installation
2000
Installation, Multimedia, Technology, Visual Arts, 2000
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
It Is Written: Notes on Literacy, Liberation and Belief
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2013
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2013
Sharita Towne
UNTITLED (Black Wanderings, Reckonings and Reveries)
Multimedia, Social Practice
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art
Sharon Bridgforth
dat Black Mermaid Man Lady
Performing Arts, Installation
2016
Installation, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2016
Sharon Lockhart
Pine Flat
Visual Arts, Moving Image
2002
Moving Image, Narrative Film, Photography, Visual Arts, 2002
Shaun Leonardo
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Performing Arts, Multimedia
2016
Multimedia, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Technology, 2016
Shawn Peters
The Art of Dying Young
Technology, Augmented Reality
2015
Augmented Reality, Multimedia, Technology, 2015
Shawn Sides
The Method Gun
Performing Arts, Theater
2006
Performing Arts, Theater, 2006
Shayla Blatchford
Anti-Uranium Mapping Project
Technology, Data Visualization
2025
Data Visualization, Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Technology, Technology, 2025
Sheila Maldonado
desveladas
Technology, Graphic Novel
2016
Graphic Novel, Literary Arts, Multimedia, Technology, 2016
Shelley Hirsch
A Rupture in the Order of Reality
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2002
Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2002
Sherrill Roland
The Jumpsuit Project(s)
Multimedia, Social Practice
2021
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Sheryl Oring
I Wish to Say
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2006
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2006
Shige Moriya
Extinction Rituals
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Shih Chieh Huang
EX-SE-10
Technology, Installation
2009
Installation, Multimedia, Technology, Visual Arts, 2009
Shirley Bruno
Just Come/Been To
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2021
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2021
Shola Lynch
The Outlaw Harriet Tubman
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2015
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2015
Shontina Vernon
Forging Ahead
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2019
Multimedia Performance, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2019