Support Artists Creating New Work

Your tax-deductible gift directly supports artists creating new work and building sustainable practices. With philanthropic partners like you, Creative Capital can continue to identify and support artists at catalytic moments in their careers via our democratic, open call awards process. Your support empowers more artists with: 

  • Creative Capital Awards provide each artist with an unrestricted project grant, plus bespoke professional services, and community-building opportunities.
  • State of the Art Prizes (NEW) will provide one unrestricted grant to one artist in every U.S. state and territory.

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Image: Dyani White Hawk (2024 Awardee) in her studio. Courtesy of the artist.

Support Educational Resources for Artists

  • Creative Capital Curriculum and Artist Labs provides free, online professional tools on how to craft an artist statement, hone an elevator pitch, design a project budget, and more.
  • Artist Opportunities provide a monthly compilation of grants, fellowships, residencies, and opportunities to help  artists each year save valuable time and labor.

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Image: Sarah Paulson and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (2016 Awardee). Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Appropriate on Broadway won 3 Tony Awards in 2024. Photo by Anthony Behar. Sipa USA/Alamy Live News.

Supporter Benefits

Creative Capital relies on donations from individuals to support artistic freedom through our awards and educational programs. Your tax-deductible donation underwrites our purpose, bringing innovative new works to life and helping artists build thriving practices.

Supporter benefits may include:

  • Recognition in our print and web materials.
  • Invitations to Creative Capital Awardee project premieres, including performances, exhibitions, film screenings, and book launches.
  • Priority access to special events, including the Creative Capital Carnival summer artist gathering, galas, and patron trips.

To learn more, please contact: Emily Gerard at [email protected] or (212) 598-9900 x223. For gifts of $10,000 or more, please mail a check or send a wire transfer (to bypass credit-card fees). For questions or for wire instructions, email: [email protected].

Image: Nicole Fleetwood, Erin Gilbert, Legacy Russell (2021 Awardee) at the 2023 Artist Benefit + Banquet. BFA/ Deonté Lee.

Advisory Council

Creative Capital’s Advisory Council is a group of industry leaders, specialists, artists, and philanthropists. The Advisory Council expands awareness of the Creative Capital mission, supports our goals, and helps our awardees build thriving artistic practices.

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Click “inquire” to send us an email and learn more about applying to the Advisory Council.

Member Premiums

  • Invitation to one annual meeting with cultural conversation by leading experts and academics.
  • Invitations to Creative Capital Carnival, artist gatherings, patron trips, awardee project premieres, and other explorations.
  • Advanced access to Creative Capital awards announcements, news, and events.
  • Special listing on Creative Capital’s website and on other materials.
Image: Creative Capital patrons visited the Venice Biennale in September 2024 to see the work of Jeffrey Gibson (2005 Awardee), the first Indigenous artist to represent the US.

Thank You, Supporters!

We are tremendously grateful to all of the generous people and institutions whose support helps to maintain the vitality, renown, and success of future generations of Creative Capital Awardees and their most groundbreaking work—thank you!

Image: June 2024 Creative Capital Carnival

Founding Supporter
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Institutional Supporters
Alexandre Gallery
The Alben F. Bates and Clara G. Bates Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Comcast
Doris Duke Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Give Lively Foundation
The Harry R. Halloran Jr. Charitable Trust
KJB Images
Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation
National Philanthropic Trust
Paula Cooper Gallery
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
Supergoop!
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Walder Foundation
X, A Google Company

Individual Supporters
Agnes Gund
Aliza Nisenbaum*
Allen Kleinman
Amelia Cline
Anne Patterson*
Anonymous (3)
Aunt Karen’s Farm
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Bill and Alison Washabaugh
Cary Brown and Steven Epstein
Catharine R. Stimpson
Charlotte Eyerman
Christine Kuan

Colleen A. Murphy
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
Colleen Keegan, The Muriel Pollia Foundation
Corey M. Robinson
Edgar Arceneaux* in memory of Merc Marie Arceneaux
Elaine Goldman and John Benis
Emi Kolawole
Gina Duncan
Grace Oh, Formation Association
Gretchen Wagner
Hasan Elahi*
Helen Kauder
Hilary Bates and Jerome Simon
In Memory of Henry Leplin Rasof and Bernard Rasof
Ira Silverberg
Isa Catto and Daniel Shaw, Catto Shaw Foundation
James Schamus
James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach
Jane Brown, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
Jane Gullong
Jessica Gaynelle Moss
JiaJia Fei
Jill and Peter Kraus
Joan Shigekawa
Jordan Huelskamp
Joseph V. Melillo
KC Maurer
Kevin A. Pemberton
Kris From
Kristen K. O’Connor
Kristina Horn-Wright
Kristina Wong*
Laura Bardier, James Howell Foundation
Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson
Lewis Hyde
The Linda Genereux and Timur Galen Family Fund
Lisa Heller
Lisa Philp

Lyda Kuth
Margaret Lawrence
Margaret Silva
Mariane Ibrahim
Marjorie Heins
Marquise Stillwell
Meg Malloy
Meg Miles
Melony and Adam Lewis Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation
Michele Tortorelli and Thomas Kearns
Michelle Coffey
Mickalene Thomas
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Paige West
Reginald M. Browne
Robby Gordon in honor of Grace Oh
Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Rosie Williams
Ruby Lerner
S. David Deitcher
Sarah Arison
Sarah Duzyk
Scott “Sourdough” Power, Creator, NotRealArt.com
Scott Wilson and Lucy Cummings
Sekka Scher
Sheryl Oring*
Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham
Sunny Bates
Tamar Guttman
Wanda Kownacki

*Creative Capital Awardee
Listings include contributions from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.

Bow Ty and Liz Ferrer (2023 Creative Capital Awardees) with Brian Fernandes-Halloran and Carles Garcia O'Dowd at Carnival 2023. Deonté Lee/BFA.com
Martha Redbone, Eisa Davis, and Angela Mattox at Carnival 2024. Matt Borkowski/BFA.com.
Rebecca Snedeker, Annie Han, and Alejandro Durán at Carnival 2022. Photo by Deonté Lee/BFA.
Gia Kuan and Advisory Council Member JiaJia Fei at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
2022 Creative Capital Awardees in front of the Village East Cinema marquee.
Christine Kuan, Anicka Yi (2023 Literature Awardee), and Sherrill Roland (2021 Visual Arts Awardee) at the 2023 Artist Benefit + Banquet. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Molaundo Jones, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, and Kristina Wong at Carnival 2023.
2023 Creative Capital Awardees at Carnival 2023, NYC.
Lorraine O’Grady (2015 Visual Arts Awardee) with Board Members Colleen Jennings-Roggensack and Dr. Cheryl Finley at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago EXPO, 2024.
Aliza Shvarts, Allison Glenn, and Christine Kuan Carnival 2023. Deonté Lee/BFA.com.
Chris Doyle (2000 Visual Arts Awardee) and Board Member Isa Catto at the 2022 inaugural Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
Dancing on the Circle Line at Carnival 2023. Deonté Lee/BFA.com.
Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
Board Member Grace Oh and John Chan at the 2023 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Times Square EDITION. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Artists settling in for the project screening inside the ornate Village East Cinema theater. Photo by Deonté Lee/BFA.
Board Vice Chair Colleen Jennings-Roggensack with Stephen Reily at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
2023 Benefit Co Chair Kimberly Drew and Thebe Magugu at Times Square EDITION. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Nicole Fleetwood, Shelley Fox Aarons, Phil Aarons and Emily Gerard at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.
Board Chair Reginald M. Browne speaking at the 2024 Carnival Awardee Dinner. BFA/ Deonté Lee.
Allison Glenn with Dean Kymberly Pinder and Bernard Lumpkin at the inaugural 2022 Artist Benefit + Banquet at Hutong, New York. BFA/Madison McGaw.