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This past summer we took 86 artists up to Troy, NY, for a four-day retreat at EMPAC on the RPI campus. Throughout the weekend, they gave presentations to some of the country’s top curators and arts organizers about the projects they are developing with the help of Creative Capital. We’ve uploaded the presentations to our


Not so long ago in a galaxy not so far away… …the arts were threatened by the dark side, and Creative Capital began a quest to support the nation’s most adventurous creative voices. Our commitment to risk-taking artists has never been stronger, but we need your help to continue this critically important work. Fight the Dark



Writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts took over the former Hotel Theresa space in Harlem to create an installation of works by various artists as well as poetry readings to honor the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination. We visited the site and spoke to Sharifa about why the community gathering was so relevant to the current events


Remember those zoetropes you had as a kid showing the silhouette of a galloping race horse? Baltimore artist Eric Dyer has developed the concept of this pre-cinema device to stunning results. For his Creative Capital project, Short Ride, he is building a massive tunnel you can walk through with thousands of moving parts. We interviewed


New York’s only endangered flower, Agalinis Acuta, is the only flower in the state to be federally protected. Creative Capital artist Miriam Simun has worked with chemists, botanists and perfumers to capture its scent for the first time ever. Her multidisciplinary art project “Agalinis Dreams,” commemorates this flower that blooms only once a year: it


Media artist Julia Christensen (2013 Emerging Fields) is making DIY projectors out of discarded iPhones. In this video, she introduces her project Burnouts, which is part of a series of works supported by Creative Capital that explore our cultural relationship with e-waste.  


Emily Johnson (2013 Performing Arts) presented her project Shore at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat last summer. Shore is a multi-day performance/installation of dance, volunteerism, feasting and storytelling. The project develops in each venue over an extended period of time, requiring conversation and collaboration amongst organizations. Shore begins with a feast, followed by a night of curated


At Creative Capital, we’re extremely proud to say that in 2014 alone we’ve already presented four Spanish Language Professional Development Workshops! We visited Queens and Los Angeles in February, Philadelphia in April and Charlotte, NC, in May to empower Spanish-speaking artists to create the careers they envision for themselves. In the above video, our Workshop Leader


Kyle Abraham (2013 Performing Arts) presents his project The Social at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat. The Social is a reflective, evening-length dance work that explores social dance and the memories associated with attending your first school dance, church function or house party. Facilitating an open environment for audiences to get up and dance before and