The Creative Capital Award provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants for the creation of innovative, groundbreaking new artistic works in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. In addition to unrestricted project grants, the Award offers each awardee professional development support. Grants are awarded via a national, open call, external review process. Creative Capital’s transformative giving approach is built on the principle that artists need funding as well as networks and advisory services in order to realize ambitious projects and build thriving careers. 

In honor of 25 years of grantmaking, Creative Capital will expand its support of individual artists with the launch of the new State of the Art Prize. Through the 2026 Open Call process for the Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital will also select recipients of the State of the Art Prize, which aims to recognize one artist residing in each U.S. state and its territories with an unrestricted artist grant. All applicants to the Creative Capital Award are automatically considered for the State of the Art Prize and are evaluated for the Prize using the same criteria; there is no separate application process. Both the State of the Art Prize and the Creative Capital Award are one-time awards. 

The grant application deadline for the 2026 Creative Capital Award and State of the Art Prize has passed. Applicants will be notified of the status of their applications in June 2025.

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