Lee’s work, Lear, is indicative of a shift in her life that led her to make art. Before becoming an artist, Lee had studied Shakespeare for ten years—her original goal was to become a Shakespeare professor. “I was working on a dissertation on King Lear when I had a nervous breakdown of sorts and dropped
The application for the 2021 Creative Capital Awards is open from February 1-29. The Creative Capital Award provides up to $50,000 in project funding, supplemented by an additional $50,000 in career development services, for a total value of $100,000.
Each application goes through a several-month evaluation process consisting of three rounds. In the first and second rounds, projects are matched with reviewers from the applicants’ chosen disciplines (for example, a project submitted as poetry and social practice will be reviewed by people qualified in each field). Applications that make it to the final round
Every month, Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grant, and award opportunities as part of our commitment to sharing resources and opportunities for artists working in all creative disciplines. These opportunities have deadlines in November through January.
Critical Art Ensemlbe received a Creative Capital Award in 2005 for their bioart project, GenTerra, to help stimulate a more engaged and informed public discourse happening at the time around Genetically Modified Organisms. In its support of the artist collective, Creative Capital went on a journey with them, telling a unique story about how we work with artists.
How does a town die? We speak to eteam about their literary novel and Creative Capital Project, Grabeland, based on a real experience creating a unique performance with people from a small town in Germany.
Looking back on projects by Creative Capital Awardees such as Sawad Brooks, Suzanne Lacy, Tana Hargest, and Nick Cave, Murray pinpoints a shift in the nature of their work: projects started before 9/11 tended to reveal “a fascination with a speculative speculative tomorrowland,” while future ones “forecasted a more difficult future.” Read the essay In
Creative Capital is pleased to announce the selection of 35 projects for the 2020 Creative Capital Awards. Exemplars of the sort of innovative, powerful, and challenging work that Creative Capital is dedicated to advancing, each award includes $50,000 in project funding, supplemented by an additional $50,000 in career development services, for a total value of $100,000.
Every year, thousands of US artists submit their projects for consideration to receive a Creative Capital Award. It’s a competitive process that takes time and thoughtfulness, so it’s something we take very seriously. We spoke to the panel reviewers about the process.
Every month, Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grant, and award opportunities as part of our commitment to sharing resources and opportunities for artists working in all creative disciplines. These opportunities have deadlines in November through January.