Michelle Ellsworth (2013 Performing Arts) presented on her Creative Capital-supported project, Clytigation: State of Exception, at the 2013 Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations from the Retreat on our Vimeo channel.

Jace Clayton (2013 Performing Arts) presented on his Creative Capital-supported project, Gbadu and the Morai Index, at the 2013 Artist Retreat. You can watch more artist presentations from the Retreat on our Vimeo channel.

The incomparable Daniel Roumain (2002 Performing Arts) presented an improvised violin and spoken word performance at Creative Capital’s 2013 Benefit & Auction at the home of Paige West. Thank you, Daniel, for sharing your stories, your talent and your inspiration with us! Learn more about Daniel’s work at danielroumain.com.

This week at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Kyle Abraham (2013 Performing Arts) performs with renowned ballet dancer Wendy Whelan in the world premiere of Restless Creature, a project initiated by Whelan in collaboration with four male choreographers. Restless Creature is a suite of four duets, each with its own distinct style and artistry, created by and

Roya Rastegar (2013 Emerging Fields) on the lore of the Artist Retreat, and Creative Capital’s diverse community of artists.

At our 2013 Artist Orientation Weekend, Creative Capital Literature Consultant Ethan Nosowsky led a focus session entitled “Working with Publishers and Developing a Publishing Strategy.” It offers general advice for artists in all disciplines who will be working with a publisher and outlines key moments in the publication timeline. LISTEN: Working with Publishers and Developing

Liz Cohen, Trabantimino For her Creative Capital-supported project, Bodywork, Liz Cohen (2005 Visual Arts) took two cars—an East German Trabant and a Chevy El Camino—and transformed them over the course of eight years into a hybrid: the Trabantimino. Liz presented this project in the Creative Capital session, Art at the Edge, at the 2012 IdeaFestival

We’re planning the Orientation Weekend for our 2013 class of grantees and revisiting some of the presentations from last year’s sessions. We wanted to share a couple of excerpts, in which our previously-funded grantees offered great advice to the new group. In the first podcast, Pablo Helguera (2005 Visual Arts) talks about unexpected setbacks he

Deborah Stratman‘s film, It Will Die Out in the Mind, is featured in the Techno Mystic program curated by Michael Connor for MOCAtv, MOCA’s video art channel on YouTube. The series explores the incongruous co-existence of mystical beliefs and modern technologies. Along with Deborah’s film, Techno Mystic also includes work by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sam Fleischner,

The Arts & Business Council in Nashville hosted its second Professional Development Program Core Weekend workshop for local artists in late September. The workshop has been described as a “crash course in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising and promotion.” The ABC staff asked the participating artists what they learned, and compiled this amazing video of their feedback