Creative Capital and its expert reviewers and panelists have the great privilege of seeing and learning about a wealth of exciting artists’ projects each grant cycle. The 2022 Shortlist features remarkable new projects in the visual arts, performing arts, technology, film, literature, and socially engaged art in all forms that advanced to the final round in the national selection process.
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VISUAL ARTS
- Leila Abdelrazaq; FIVE TIMES FAST; Drawing and Illustration; Detroit, MI
- Kimberley Acebo Arteche; Kundiman ng Katawan; Photography, Performance Art; San Francisco, CA
- Alia Ali; ‘روح // RU7’ (Soul, Departure); Social Practice, Experimental Film; New Orleans, LA
- Hans Baumann, Karen Pinkus; Offset Offsite; Ecological Art, Public Art; South Pasadena, CA and Queens, NY
- Chloe Bensahel; Soft Ware; Craft, Multimedia Performance; Washington, DC
- Yaminay Chaudhri; A Small Book of Tabula Rasas; Architecture and Design, Literary Fiction; Guilford, CT
- Sean Connelly, Dominic Leong; Hawai’i Non-Linear (ALA WAI CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL PROJECT); Architecture and Design, Experimental Film; Honolulu, HI and Brooklyn, NY
- Esperanza Cortés; Emerald City; Video Art, Installation; New York, NY
- Franky Cruz; Vivarium Meconium Laboratory; Painting, Ecological Art; Hialeah, FL
- Katy Delahanty, Darius Dennis, Jared Diaz; The Open Air Archive; Public Art, Painting; Louisville, KY and Queens, NY
- Sarah Gamble; Deconstructed; Public Art, Architecture and Design; Gainesville, FL
- Danny Giles; Josephine’s; Architecture and Design, Multimedia; Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Susan Giles; Gestural Traces and Embodied Memory; Music Composition; Chicago, IL
- Wendy Guerrero, Samuel Kaufman; Latinfuturism Archive; Architecture and Design, Multimedia; Los Angeles, CA
- Virginia Hanusik; The Place We Keep; Photography, Social Practice; New Orleans, LA
- Maggie Hazen; Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape; Video Art, Social Practice; Tivoli, NY
- Shani Jamila; Lineage; Multimedia, Painting; Brooklyn, NY
- Elizabeth Jimenez Montelongo; The Codex Decolonizemos: A Chicana Field Guide to Self-Determination; Painting, Poetry; Santa Clara, CA
- Osman Khan; 1001++ (Magical Technologies); Installation, Multimedia; Detroit, MI
- Christina Yuna Ko; Our Town; Painting, Cultural Organizing; Queens, NY
- Ian Kuali‘i; Wahi Pana – Sacred Places; Ecological Art, Cultural Organizing; Santa Fe, NM
- RAY LC, Vincent Ruijters; CHIKYUCHI; Ecological Art, Installation; Temple City, CA;
- Marcos Lutyens, Yuval Ron; DOME; Installation; Los Angeles, CA
- Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield; The Deaf Space Archive; Architecture and Design, Social Practice; Lawrence, MA
- Suzanne McClelland; Reverse the Barge : Rivers on Fire; Ecological Art, Social Practice; Orient, NY
- MIPSTERZ (Shimul Chowdhury, Abbas Rattani, Yusuf Siddiquee); ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM; Installation, Digital media; Brooklyn, NY
- Rachelle Mozman Solano; American Psyche; Video Art, Photography; Brooklyn, NY
- Will Munroe; 3D Printed Ocean Plastic Grand Piano / Grand Piano In The National Parks; Public Art, Artistic Activism; Pasadena, CA
- Mikael Owunna; Infinite Essence: Glass; Craft, Sculpture; Pittsburgh, PA
- Edison Peñafiel; Those From The Other Side; Installation, Experimental Film; Miami, FL
- Pamela J. Peters; Red Spirit – Working Title; Photography, Documentary Film; Los Angeles, CA
- Tamara Rosenblum; The Story Of The Man Who Turned Into A Dog; Video Art, Installation; Los Angeles, CA
- Yoshie Sakai; KOKO’s World; Installation, Video Art; Gardena, CA
- Jazz Shoots; Inner City Huez; Photography, Multimedia; Brooklyn, NY
- Brent Sturlaugson; Archive of Lost Mountains; Architecture and Design, Installation; Lexington, KY
- Kenneth Tam; The Medallion; Installation, Video Art; Queens, NY
- Pamela Valfer; Art as a Verb: Land Art as Activism; Ecological Art, Social Practice; Pasadena, CA
- Clea T. Waite; Water Book: Perpetual Cycle; Video Art, Digital media; Boulder, CO
- Gabriella Willenz; Imposter Syndrome (working title); Video Art, Theater; Berkeley, CA
- Levester Williams; dreaming of a beyond; Installation, Multimedia; Philadelphia, PA
- Savannah Wood; Hard to Get and Dear Paid For; Photography, Multimedia; Baltimore, MD
- Guanyu Xu; Resident Aliens; Photography, Installation; Chicago, IL
- Jade Yumang; Cast a Wide Net; Sculpture, Craft; Chicago, IL
PERFORMING ARTS
- 7NMS (Marjani Forté-Saunders, Everett Saunders); PROPHET; Multimedia Performance, Multimedia; Pasadena, CA
- Cornelius; My Friends are Flaming; Performance Art, Social Practice; San Francisco, CA
- JU-EH; Project JU-EH; Opera, Multimedia Performance; New York, NY
- Tara Ahmadinejad, Alexandra Panzer, Celine Song, Ben Vigus, Jeff Wood; Tread on Me, Tread Softly; Multimedia Performance, Theater; Brooklyn, NY
- Harry Allen; The Turntablist Big Band; Music Performance, Music Composition; Washington, D.C.
- Adrian Anantawan; Disability Music Collective: A Concert of Possibility; Music Performance; Jamaica Plain, MA
- Zia Anger; Fucking Cops; Multimedia Performance, Documentary Film; Hudson, NY
- Quilan Cue Arnold; Searching for a True Move: An American Movement Alphabet Experience; Dance, Social Practice; Brooklyn, NY
- David Bengali, Jonathan Camuzeaux, Simón Hanukai, Nikki Holck; DATAPRINT; New York, NY and Pantin, France; Theater, Games
- Amy Bluemel, Alyssa Coppelman, Peter Mattei, Justin Sherburn; The American Wild (working title); Theater, Artistic Activism; Austin, TX
- Lucrecia Briceno; Llontop; Multimedia Performance, Theater; Brooklyn, NY
- Rashayla Marie Brown; Temple for the Maintenance of Ambivalence; Performance Art, Social Practice; Chicago, IL
- Sanchel Brown; Wheelz Of Life; Dance, Performance Art; Baltimore, MD
- George Cederquist, Bilal Dardai, Asad Ali Jafri, Amirah Sackett, Ahmed Zaghbouni; Layla & Majnun: An Immersive Hip-hopera; Opera, Dance; Chicago, IL
- Ananya Chatterjea; MICHHIL: Dances of our Times; Dance, Artistic Activism; Minneapolis, MN
- Mary Ellen Childs; NORTH; Music Composition, Multimedia Performance; Minneapolis, MN
- Todd Clouser; Permanent Immigrant; Music Performance, Photography; Hobe Sound, FL
- MILAGROS Collective and Poncili Creación (Felici Asteinza, Efrain Del Hierro, Pablo Del Hierro, Joey Fillastre); Reality Breaker; Puppetry, Social Practice; Puppetry, Social Practice; New Orleans, LA and San Juan, PR
- Keyierra Collins; Take Some Leave Some; Dance, Multimedia Performance; Chicago, IL
- Ashon Crawley; loss. nothing. memorial. The Black Church, HIV and Music; Multimedia Performance, Sound Art; Charlottesville, VA
- Anna Craycroft; Only Breath, Words; Theater, Sculpture; Bearsville, NY
- Cynthia Croot, Mai Khoi Do, Nicole Mitchell; Bad Activist; Musical Theater, Multimedia Performance; Pittsburgh, PA
- Atabak Elyasi, Mahsa Vahdat; Tone-on-Tone: Sonic Self Portraits; Music Composition, Music Performance; Berkeley, CA
- Ayana Evans; I Just Came Here To Find A Husband… and Start a Got-Damn Revolution; Performance Art, Multimedia Performance; New York, NY
- Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald; XTRÆNCESTRAL; Multimedia Performance; Granby, CT
- Chris Florendo, Rhea Fowler, Maria Maea, Katie Stenberg, Micaela Tobin; APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth; Opera, Sound Art; Los Angeles, CA
- Geneva Foster Gluck; The Magnetic Chamber; Multimedia Performance, Artistic Activism; Tucson, AZ
- Catherine Galasso; City of Wom()n; Dance, Multimedia Performance; Brooklyn, NY
- Gary Hill; Operands Among Friends; Multimedia Performance, Opera; Seattle, WA
- Justina Kamiel Grayman; Raw Movement; Dance, Social Practice
Clarksville, TN - Kevin Lee-Y Green; Seabreeze; Dance, Artistic Activism; Wilmington, NC
- d. Sabela grimes, Meena Murugesan; PARABLE OF PORTALS; Multimedia Performance, Virtual Reality; Los Angeles, CA
- Tyler Gunther; High Gothic Pageantry LLC; Theater, Puppetry; Brooklyn, NY
- Elisa Harkins; Red Road Revival; Music Composition, Experimental Film; Tulsa, OK
- Teresa Hernández; bravata: encuesta a domicilio (bravata: survey at home); Performance Art, Multimedia Performance; San Juan, PR
- Jahman Hill, Victoria Hurst; Project Vanderwaal; Performance Art, Artistic Activism; Birmingham, AL and Lithonia, GA
- Jocelyn Ho, Margaret Schedel, Robert Cosgrove, Melody Loveless; Women’s Labor: The Housework Commons; Music Performance, Installation; New York, NY and Los Angeles, LA
- Brian House; Macrophones: Listening at a Distance; Multimedia Performance, Ecological Art; Portland, OR
- Zora Howard; HANG TIME; Theater, Installation; New York, NY
- Susie Ibarra; Water Rhythms: Listening to Climate Change (Performance); Music Performance; New Paltz, NY
- Precious Jennings, Megan Schneeberger; Align the Fibers: Object permanence; Performance Art, Dance; Charleston, SC
- Molly Joyce; Perspective; Music Composition, Social Practice; Fairfield, CT
- Yayoi Kambara; IKKAI means once: an XR pilgrimage; Dance; San Francisco, CA
- Ayako Kato; Rebirth: ETHOS Final Episode; Dance, Music Performance; Chicago, IL
- Baseera Khan; By Faith; Performance Art, Video Art
Brooklyn, NY - Joanna Kotze; LONG DISTANCE DANCE DIALOGUES; Dance, Multimedia; Brooklyn, NY
- Jo Kreiter; Apparatus of Repair; Dance, Artistic Activism; San Francisco, CA
- George Tsz-Kwan Lam; What We Lost In The Fire; Music Composition, Sound Art; Tung Chung, Hong Kong
- Rodrigo Lara; Convictions; Multimedia Performance, Sculpture; Chicago, IL
- Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow; Junkanooacome: Red Set Girls at the Crosswalk with our Sisters and Brothers; Multimedia Performance, Performance Art; Ridgewood, NY
- Michael Manson Jr from Inkster; Rhythm of the Feet; Cultural Organizing, Performance Art; Westland, MI
- Kristin Marting, Kamala Sankaram; Joan of the City; Opera, Augmented Reality; Bronx, NY
- Cherise Morris; Visions of the Evolution: Ritual-Performance Communion Tour; Multimedia Performance, Poetry; Detroit, MI
- Anna Luisa Petrisko; The Promise of Nini; Multimedia Performance, Animation; Los Angeles, CA
- Tareq Rantisi; Taggagat; Jazz Performance, Music Composition; Medford, MA
- Mark A. Rodriguez; 18 Wheeler Drone Ensemble; Music Performance, Sculpture; Los Angeles, CA
- Matt Romein; UNTITLED TV SHOW; Multimedia Performance, Theater; Brooklyn, NY
- Andrew Schneider; The Stars; Theater, Installation; Brooklyn, NY
- Naima Shalhoub; Woven: An Oratorio for Remembrance; Music Composition, Music Performance; Oakland, CA
- Jen Shyu; Fertile Land, Fertile Body (working title); Music Composition, Multimedia Performance; Queens, NY
- slowdanger (taylor knight, anna thompson); SUPERCELL; Dance, Multimedia Performance; Pittsburgh, PA
- Marike Splint; YOU ARE HERE (AGAIN); Theater, Internet Art; Los Angeles, CA
- James Allister Sprang; Aquifer of the Blues; Multimedia Performance, Multimedia; Philadelphia, PA
- The Davis Sisters (Alexander Davis, Joy Davis) with Eric Mullis; The Davis Sisters Are City Girls Now; Multimedia Performance, Dance; Charlotte, NC and Boston, MA
- The Hinterlands (Liza Bielby, Richard Newman); Love at the Loud-n-Tall; Theater, Social Practice; Detroit, MI
- Lisa B. Thompson; The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body; Performance Art, Theater; Austin, TX
- André Vida; Breathless; Performance Art, Social Practice; Berlin, Germany
- Helanius J. Wilkins; The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging (TCS); Multimedia Performance, Social Practice; Boulder, CO
- olaronke akinmowo; The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Room; Social Practice, Installation; Brooklyn, NY
- Dania Cabello, Darren Colston, Yvan Iturriaga, Shana Lancaster, Shaunnah Ray; Hella Love; Social Practice, Narrative Film; Oakland, CA
- Omar Casas, Rawmirez Ramirez; The Myth of Affordability; Artistic Activism, Installation; McAllen, TX
- Jana Harper; Looking for Nanaboozhoo; Social Practice, Multimedia; Nashville, TN
- constance hockaday; Artists-In-Presidents; Social Practice, Installation; Los Angeles, CA
- Rachel Gita Karp; VIP; Artistic Activism, Multimedia Performance; Brooklyn, NY
- Isa Knafo, Phoebe Unterman; Police Estate. A podcast series by The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project; Artistic Activism, Multimedia; Los Angeles, CA
- Juan Luna-Avin; Sonidero Fields; Artistic Activism, Social Practice; Mountain View, CA
- Jillian McManemin; Toppled Monuments Archive; Artistic Activism, Data Visualization; New York, NY
- Yin Q, Ze Royale, Bridget Conway-Taylor; The Sex Workers Museum; Cultural Organizing; Brooklyn, NY
- Luis A. Sahagun; Alivio y Asilo: Apparitions of Spiritual Activism; Artistic Activism, Social Practice; Marina, CA
- Osagyefo Sekou; Hush Mouth Church and Juke Joint: A Tribute to the Elaine Massacre of 1919; Artistic Activism, Cultural Organizing; Seattle, WA
- Selma Selman; The Impossible Embassy; Social Practice, Social Practice; Oakton, VA
- Marisa Williamson; Unsettling Grounds; Artistic Activism, Multimedia Performance; South Orange, NJ
FILM
- Beth Aala; The Script; Documentary Film; Brooklyn, NY
- Nesa Azimi; DRIVER; Documentary Film; New York, NY
- Lily Baldwin; Chronicle of Hip; Documentary Film, Dance Film; New York, NY
- Lee-Jean Chow, Serge Garcia; Live To Be Legend; Documentary Film, Experimental Film
- Guisel Contreras; DOCTORA; Documentary Film; Los Angeles, CA
- Contessa Gayles; Life + Life; Documentary Film, Music Performance; New York, NY
- Mohammad Gorjestani; Baran Teer Shod (Rain Becomes Bullets); Narrative Film, Documentary Film; San Francisco, CA
- Vero Majano; Dearest Homegirl; Animation, Experimental Film; San Francisco, CA
- Lydia Moyer, Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell; Smoke, Fog, Gas, and Vapor; Experimental Film, Video Art; Charlottesville, VA
- Rajee Samarasinghe; Your Touch Makes Others Invisible; Documentary Film, Experimental Film; Irvine, CA
- Lynne Siefert; Valley of The Night (working title); Experimental Film, Documentary Film; Tacoma, WA
- Kimi Takesue; TOUR GUIDE; Documentary Film; Brooklyn, NY
TECHNOLOGY
- Alessia Arregui, Gloria Duan; Currents off the Invisible Shore; Virtual Reality, Public Art; Annandale, VA
- Johannes Barfield; Ancestral Plane; Multimedia, Games; Albuquerque, NM
- Janet Biggs; How the Light Gets In; Digital media, Performance Art; Brooklyn, NY
- Kris Chavez, Liese Chavez; Message in a Bottle; Games, Digital media; Manitou Springs, CO
- Tia-Simone Gardner; Chronotopophobias: A Black Geo-graphic Atlas; Data Visualization, Literary Nonfiction; Saint Paul, MN
- Sue Huang; Erotic Ecologies; Digital media, Ecological Art; Brooklyn, NY
- Flint Jamison, Eunsong Kim, Kim Nguyen; For Those of Us: A Database for Anti-Colonial Research into Arts Institutions; Software, Data Visualization; Seattle, WA, Boston, MA, and San Francisco, CA
- Tina Janockina; Jane and John Doe; Architecture and Design, Digital media; Queens, NY
- roame jasmïn; everywhere a city, some place a gutter; Internet Art, Virtual Reality; Cincinnati, OH
- Christopher Meerdo; Region Zero; Augmented Reality, Ecological Art; Denton, TX
- Byron Rich; The Suburbs of Accra; Augmented Reality, Artistic Activism; Meadville, PA
- Amina Ross; Sonic Rupture: Songs for(e) the swarm; Multimedia, Installation; Brooklyn, NY
- Radio Espacio Estación (Stephanie Sherman, Agustina Woodgate, Hernan Woodgate); VIENTO; Digital media, Public Art; Surfside, FL
- Jenni(f)fer Tamayo; DOR@; Games, Poetry; Sacramento, CA
LITERATURE
- Yanyi; An Absolute Evil; Poetry, Literary Nonfiction; Bennington, VT
- Andrea Abi-Karam; CRUSH PORN: A Poet’s Novel; Literary Nonfiction, Performance Art; Brooklyn, NY
- Tom Comitta; People’s Choice Literature; Literary Fiction; New York, NY
- Lyn Di Iorio; Hurricanes and Other Stories; Literary Fiction, Artistic Activism; New York, NY
- Crystal Hana Kim; The Stone Home; Literary Fiction; Brooklyn, NY
- Claire Luchette; Post Office; Literary Fiction; Cleveland, OH
- Mark Mayer; The Central Fire; Literary Fiction; Memphis, TN
- Nick Montfort; 101 BASIC Poems; Poetry, Software; New York, NY
- Jennifer Perrine; Missing/Wanted; Literary Nonfiction; Portland, OR
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; The Future Is Disabled; Literary Nonfiction, Cultural Organizing; Seattle, WA
- Robin Beth Schaer; Fathom; Poetry; Oberlin, OH
- Matthew Shen Goodman; American Accomplice; Literary Nonfiction; Brooklyn, NY
- Ronaldo Wilson; Silent Incantations: Learning My Mother’s Language; Poetry; Santa Cruz, CA
SOCIALLY-ENGAGED ART